Of Trolls and Lemons: Family Tree Thursday

My family tree has several ancestors with estimated dates for events,?depending on the determining document at hand.? The goal, however,?is always to?continue searching for records that provide exact dates of birth, death, etc. and revise any missing or estimated data.? In this post, I will discuss two recent date revisions.

One of the mysteries I wanted to solve for a long time was the exact date my Sicilian great-grandmother, Agrippina Marianna Strano, died.? I guessed she had died somewhere between 1902 and 1912 because my grandfather, Vincenzo Dibennardo,?had a sister that was born about two?years after him, and he had?lived at?a religious boarding school during his youth/adolescence.??By reading my grandfather's diary, written during the scholastic year of 1915-1916, I?learned he had already spent at least 4 years of his life away from home, among a Salesian order of priests.? This put his mother's death date around 1911.

A few weeks ago, I was finally able to update the death date for Agrippina Strano. Previously, her date looked like her parents' in the picture below -- "Abt. 1911." When I located her death record, I learned that she died in her hometown of Mineo, at Via Sotto Tamburino, number 16, on 13 November 1909. She died?two days before my grandfather's ninth birthday.

I also recently made an update on my Swedish line.? My fifth great-grandfather, Petter Olsson,?had a year of birth without an exact date and month.?

Thanks for reading!? I plan on blogging more again, so please look out for future posts.

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