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I’m deep into a research project trying to piece together the circumstances of my father’s birth family. My dad was abandoned by his parents as a baby, so these are people neither he nor I ever met.

As I dig through records and learn more, I have been experiencing this sensation a bit like de ja vous. It’s as if I am rediscovering things I once knew, but had forgotten long ago…except that I am definitely learning things I never knew before.

Anyone else experience something like this?

One other little spooky detail I’ll add - my first name is a variant of my great grandfather’s middle name (and my first name is not common). Someone looking at my family tree might assume I was named for him, but I definitely was not.

Anyway, weird stuff.

I’m having a new pain out of the blue just below my left armpit. Are there any tendons / ligaments in this area that could be causing enthesitis? Anyone else experienced something similar? It is quite painful (when I move the wrong way.)

Hi all. Here’s one for the historians out there: how were births certified and recorded in VT in the early 1900s? I’m trying to find a birth record for my grandfather, who was born in 1911 in the NEK.

Would I be likely to find a record of this with the town clerk in the town where he was born? If so, what kind of a record would I be likely to find?