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The Hidden Birth Record That Rewrote Her Whole Family History
The Hidden Birth Record That Rewrote Her Whole Family History
Fear that everything you thought you knew about your family could be wrong: a King James Bible pulled from four inches of standing water under house floorboards contained a handwritten entry that names a child nowhere else in public records. How did one home baptism, recorded on March 14, 1941, remain hidden under a house for decades-and what does it mean for the woman who thought she knew her mother’s origin story?
In this episode, we follow how a county utility worker’s routine repair led a records coordinator to an oversized…
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