Finding John R.10. Match the Facts

Genealogy is essentially a game of matching the facts.

Many times  LA sat down with her parents Lewis and Marie Allison and tried to shake loose a little more family information out of them.  Linda  recorded the names of all the aunts, and uncles that came to mind.  How many cousins? Which mother? What second husband? Where was that?  The notes looked like this. 

There were multiple attempts at making family trees over the years.  The results were disjointed, sketchy, messy. LA's habit of "never throwing anything away" as Stella put it, paid off. Years later she took out the pile of page and discovered a notation on one of those pages she had forgotten she had ever written. She was shocked to see "John Allison, two sisters, penn."

Linda's tree sketch from a family conversation in 1990s.. 

A fact match to the Biographical Annuals of Franklin County. Louisa and Mary Allison.

Whoops go up across a stretch of San Francisco Bay in two separate counties.  The Search Sisters are on the phone to each other and are dancing around their living rooms.  The facts match! This FEELS right. Confidence is high.  After more than a century of being lost we think we have found our John R Allison's family.