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Michigan state
Every time a person returns to the focus of their memories, they find hundreds of stories and stories in it. And so it was with Brittany Kitch, who when she returned to her mailbox, she found a postcard from the last hundred years.
“I didn’t think much of it when I found this email, but then I took a closer look,” Keach said.
The message begins: “Dear cousins, we are in good health, but the mother suffers on her knees and is terribly flaccid, it is very cold here.” Deputy.
After I decided to search for interested parties, I found that many were also interested in revealing the origins of the card and how it somehow appeared after a century in their mailbox.
After seeing Kitch’s post, Robbie Peters, 33, who works at a Michigan public library, began searching for answers.
“I do a little genealogy research as a hobby,” Peters said. “I started helping my family and then I found out what was wrong.”
While examining the 1920 census, Peters discovered Roy McQueen, who once lived at the same address where Ketch now lives with her husband and two children.
He discovered that McQueen was originally from Canada, moved to the United States in 1887, and was married to Norah Murdock. At the time the card was sent, he was working as a director for a production company.
Peters learned that the likely sender of the postcard was Florence “Flossy” Burgess, Nora Murdock’s niece.
He explained: “I found census records, death records, marriage records, and the postcard contained two names and had a destination, so I had an idea where to start the search.”
However, the question that arises is how did the card get into Kitch’s mailbox 100 years after it was written?
“The card may have been lost for a long time and stuck in a narrow, inaccessible place that no one can see in an old post office,” said Mindy Bonover, who works for the Michigan Postal Service. “This is probably what happened.”
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