The clue (I missed) in the album
Ella Sedgwick Ralph Album 2, p.24 Caroline Ralph Miller collection, scanned with permission. PL Embley digital collection. There may have been a Nancy Drew mystery by that title... I started this genealogical journey in the 1970s with a mimeographed list of my direct ancestors prepared by my grandfather Marion Taylor Bird. (Probably about the same time I would have been reading Nancy Drew mysteries. Are these two facts related?) The "Ancestors Of..." list was extensive on my maternal grandfather's line but had few details about my maternal grandmother's ancestors. This was likely in part because her father John Albert Ralph died when she was not yet 10 years old. His father, William John Ralph , was orphaned when he was only 7. Family information that would have passed naturally over years of association was lost. Ella Sedgwick Ralph Album 2, p.12 Caroline Ralph Miller collection, scanned with permission. PL Embley digital collection. After my grandfather re