Well, I looked and looked on ancestry.com with no luck, for the parents and siblings of my great-grandfather. Ancestry.com has been great for finding a lot of relatives and details, just not always the ones that I have no information at all on. Then, I tried a search on google, just listing names and birth dates of the few I knew and found not only a long post on all his family and siblings and birth and death dates and locations, but also found the same wealth of information on the family of a friend's great-grandfather.
This also worked for another family I was searching for. About 25 years ago, I went to a local auction in a nearby town, here in Central Kansas and bought a box of interesting stuff. In that box I found a very unique wooden tube that looked solid, but I found that the end could twist off and the inside was hollow and, stuffed inside, were some rolled up family records. The records were written in pencil on yellowed, crumbling, lined note paper and listed births of the children of Patrick Hogan, born in 1835 in Ireland, and his wife, Mary Ann Ryan Hogan. Some deaths were also listed and the most crumbly paper was the Pastor's handwritten page documenting their marriage. I wanted to find descendants of this family who would like to have this family treasure, but could find very little. Then, I did a google search and found Patrick's obituary which listed dates, surviving children, spouses' names, where they lived, and more. It was a bonanza of information. So, remember to try plain old search engines like google. I always have the best luck with google so I seldom bother with any others. Often, newspaper stories and obituaries will come up with a google search.
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