As a young girl, one of my favorite Disney movies was Mulan. I love the part where Mulan goes out to save her family, and then her ancestor asks Mushu to wake up the ancestors, and Mushu says, "One great big family reunion coming right up!" and then the ancestors counsel together about how to help Mulan.
In this picture, the girl is finding how to help her ancestors through their help beyond the veil while she uses modern technology. I feel like this is how it works today - I have my laptop trying to navigate the world of genealogy, but in the end, they know where their records are and can point us in the right direction of how to be found.
One time, something similar occurred to me. I started looking for the members of the family of James and Cordia Stowers and from information from my mom, looked for them on Census knowing that he had married before to Bessie Bradley, so I was trying to find all of their children. I could find the names and dates, but no birthplaces, so I did not have enough information about them. I prayed hard after I had done as much searching as I could do, but that was all I could do.
The next morning, I awoke suddenly with the thought to look in the 1910 Census for Oklahoma, and there she was! It was a very joyful experience! I know that she wanted to be found.
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