Sometimes It's Worth A Second Look
A note I wrote on 29 October 2002 for my ancestor John Henry Bryant in my family tree:
The biography from the Portrait and Biographical Album of McLean County is one of my favorite finds. I was in the Los Angeles Public Library on a weekend in September 2000. I thought I had just about tapped out all of the resources the library had to offer for my genealogical research. Boy, was I wrong. When I pulled the old crumbling book from the shelf, I looked up the family names from McLean County: Bryant, Champion, Burwell, Ingersoll. I was elated to find good old John H. Bryant. I realized I had seen the biography earlier that year when I first started my research but had dismissed it because I didn't recognize the family connection. This linked our Illinois Bryants back to Massachusetts and to the ancestor, Abraham Bryant, that came from England to America.
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