Yes, family history can bring tears.
My 6 x ggm had 19 children. The first six died in the space of 23 days of smallpox. Somehow she pulled herself together and went on to have 13 more children, ten of whom died in childhood, one married but had no children, one disappeared from the records and one is my 5th ggf. She outlived them all including her husband and died aged 84. I cannot imagine what her life was like.
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