Roots, to Jennie’s marriage in 1865. Where did this chapter first catch you — and did anything in it change what you thought you knew about your own line?
A question to open Chapter One with:
The book starts with a name the paper and the tellings don’t spell the same way — Cary in the marriage register, Curry in a lot of later writing, off one unclosed letter in an old hand. That one letter walled off a whole line of the family for a hundred years.
What’s a name in your own family that the records and the stories spell differently — and which one turned out to be right?