Last night, I decided to look for any additional information about my 5th great grandfather, Joseph Tribble and his wife, Sarah Howard. Over the years, I thought I'd found 'all' of the records that existed about the couple, but I was wrong. The search found a handwritten letter from grandma Sarah Howard Tribble addressed to the government as a written statement in support of a Revolutionary War retirement benefit for the

There weren't any new facts about the Tribble family but reading the letter made grandma more than just a name and dates to me. I had found a window back in time allowing me to 'see' some of her personality both through her written words and in the unique styling of her capital 'T' and 'S'. Grandma had flair! Her lettering was carefully formed when she wrote slowly but slipped into an interesting compression as she quickly wrote the last few sentences that ended her letter.
Soon, millions of images will be available on line through LDS family history libraries, from Ancestry and other similar web sites. We can find information on our ancestors quickly and easily sitting in our PJ's at home. Who can complain that doing family history research is too hard now? "What a great time to be alive!"
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