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SNGF - Your Disappeared Ancestors

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:  It's Saturday Night again -  Time for some more  Genealogy Fun!! Our mission from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings is to: 1)  Sometimes an ancestor or relative just disappears from the records, and we cannot find another record after a certain date.  2)  Tell us about one or more of your relatives or ancestors who have disappeared and have not been found since a certain date.  Do you have any idea of what might have happened to them? Here's mine: First, I can share a blog post I wrote for 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks two weeks ago about an ancestor who disappeared: WhatBecame of Robert Hutson of Cherokee County, Georgia? I wondered how I could locate all the people in my database who have no death fact. I have RootsMagic 10 now and used the search feature, focusing on an event that has a blank death date. I got 4839 matches out of 7462 people. That is not a great statistic! Many of the hits are pe...