A Hiatus and a New Find

Last March shortly after my last post I had a medical emergency of sorts. I went to the ER the end of March in severe pain and found out I had a badly diseased and infected gall bladder. It could not be removed immediately but I could not eat as it was blocked. I had a billiary tube put in for about two months then had the surgery. After coming home I discovered the large incision was not healing and I needed to have a wound pump and wound care. This was my entire summer and I didn't do much research during that six month period. I have found it hard to get back on track but I am trying. A distant cousin had offered to do some research on my great grandfather, William Frank Kinard to find his parents.She did but I noticed that he was born in a different town, different birthdate and had another name on some documents and this didn't feel right. I did have his social security number so I sent for his orginal application (filed when he was in his late 50s.) When I received it I learned that his parents were two entirely different people and I was then able to locate his siblings on an old census. I finally have the names of his parents. That was a brick wall I kept hitting. Lesson learned. Don't trust other information given to you unless it checks out and feels right and when looking for someone's parents, if you have their social security number you can find them on their original application.