Another Cold Case: Felix McMasters Died 1773

State of North Carolina 1795 : Source 

http://www.mapofus.org/_maps/atlas/1795northcarolina.html

Nordic Noir, cop shows, mysteries.  Tonight I watch another drama unfold. Apparently the human mind thrives on detective stories, judging on the number of Netflix choices about crime and detection. As I watch my mind is wanders. I feel the pull of the computer screen in the other room. My mind  wants to get back to the problem I have been working on today:  Felix McMasters, died 1793, North Carolina.

I've been on the case all day.  Three search sisters are investigating Felix McMasters. Stella whose headquarters are in Alameda County. LA whose offices are in Marin and Jeannie who works from somewhere in Texas. 

We are operating today as a team because of DNA matching. We share proteins. We share great great grandparents. We share curiosity. We share the the urge to investigate cold cases: long ago ancestors long ago dead. 

It's a hot email conversation all day long. Probate documents, census reports, maps and newspaper articles fly back and forth.  We are trying to ID the perpetrator: Felix McMasters. Did he father our lineage? Is he Mary Catherine Evans aka. Kate's grandfather?

The evidence is pointing to him as the culprit. But the Search Sisters need that clinching piece of evidence to convict him. They are not even sure what that evidence will be or where it will come from. What they do know for sure is no evidence will be coming from any eyewitnesses.