Finding Emily Bird
Emily Aurelia Bird was born 24 December 1807 or 1808 in Massachusetts to Col./Rev. Nathaniel Bird and his wife Hannah Bullard. There are a LOT of trees on Ancestry that include Emily and her siblings; a lot of people have contributed to profiles on FamilySearch. No one had anything about Emily's life after her marriage to Elias Hubbard in 1829 in Westfield (Chautauqua County), New York. Emily was a mystery f or as long as I can remember . Until yesterday. Several unique documents answered at least part of the question of what happened to Emily. How I discovered her is another case study in persistence, luck, familiarity with known details, luck, the explosion of online resources, and luck. Or maybe a few nudges from the other side. That nudge started yesterday when I was looking for the box containing my research on the Annie Dean Diary. Before I found the sought-after box, I came across a document in my Grandpa Bird's handwriting, an inventory of papers found in Marion Irene