Oh, lookie what I found!!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. I really am. A family split happened around this time, and we knew nothing a few years ago

except that some relative on that side went down with the Maine.

I've contacted the seller to get updated info. I could never afford to even look at it, let alone buy it, but I might be able to find out more personal details. The brothers all split up over money when the patriarch died in 1915 is the story, but his will says he left $100 and nothing else. He started out owning a large piece of what is now Brooklyn, back when it was New Lots, a farm town.

With the 1940 census out, I've been able to fill in everyone back to 1920, and from 1910 back to the Civil War where apparently George Faubel Sr was at the first battle of Bull Run. But I have lots of missing bits to find before I can be sure.

My biggest hurdle is 3 notebooks, various index cards and loose papers, and bits of data on my hard drive that is so scattered I don't know where to begin organizing it.