The Scene: It's Monday morning and I'm clearing my email inbox and I come across an eBay alert for Minahan's Wendell Inn at Crooked Lake, N.Y." dated 1914.
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| eBay Item: Antique Postcard: Minahan's Wendell Inn, Sand Lake, New York, (note the Model T Car) ( $29.99 USD) |
So naturally, I looked at all of the Minahans in my family tree and ran some newspaper searches for the "Wendell Inn".
One thing led to another and, fast forward five hours later, this lovely 1914 photo had led me from New York to Massachusetts to Michigan to Texas and to several Ancestry DNA matches! I immediately created and posted a blog post in all of the excitement only to confirm hours later that the DNA match family tree had several significant errors
Below is the chronological description of my discovery, excitement and the reality check that all was NOT what it appeared.
