Yes! When all else fails, google. I was stuck on one of my Scottish ggfathers, common name. Disappeared after the death of his first wife. I googled various versions of his name, etc but it wasn't until I googled the Ancestry mistranscription of his birth place that a 15 year old post popped up on Ancestry regarding my man. The contact had him from his second marriage to death, I had him from birth to the death of his first wife. We probably would never have connected the two halves any other way.
Another one was a disappearing ag lab with a slightly unusual first name. Not a sign of him anywhere where I THOUGHT he should be. A last ditch google brought up the astonishing information that he had inherited a vast estate in the Turks and Caicos Islands and he is extremely well documented in their museum.
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