03 | Why Was This Such a Big Discovery?

I had earier traced our family back to John Odoerfer, whose name I found spelled that way in the Library of Congress records for Clear Spring and Concocheaque, Maryland, and knew that this was a real find!

It almost seemed that the finding of this link was a result of Divine Guidance, given how easy it would have been not to encounter and look at that particular book, but it was the beginning of a truly exciting genealogical adventure which has taken me to places I never thought I’d go, to find out more about the history of this very interesting family.