Right out of the Sky

This weekend I had the privilege to finally meet with my cousin Edward Ambrose and see some of the MASS of old photos and documents he has from his side of the family. I brought my laptop and scanner along with my backup stuff to show him while we were working. He kept bringing things out and I finally had to tell him to slow down so I could be sure to get through just one box. I’m not sure how many hours we sat, or I sat, and scanned high resolution images, but it was at least 7 hours leaving out lunch and the time walking around gathering lemons and so forth… My son was such a good sport. He had cartoons to watch and books to read and a kitty to play with outside.

Some of this collection was his mother, Camille Ciramelli Ambrose’s address books and some letters. A few of these letters led me on the relatively quick curiosity path today to find- to actually FIND one of Rose Ambrose Cobb’s grandchildren. Was he surprised to hear from me!

I told them how I found the clue in the letter, then looked at Rose and Lawrence's 1930 census again- there were their daughters! One listed there looked like she had the last name Wright, so I did a wildcard search of births on Vitalsearch and found a Lawrence Wright, born in 1927. I decided to take a chance on finding him living in California and used Zabasearch first because it shows a history, then when I found one in a town I could bet on, I used the white pages to see if the listing was current. Yep. He was the first call I made, and he was the right one!!!

Lawrence's wife, Carolyn, said she had been trying to create a memory book, but was displeased with the lack of information on his grandmother’s side of the family. Halfway laughing, she asked me: “Where did you come from?! Did you just fall out of the sky?!”

Well Lawrence and family- welcome aboard!

I can hardly believe all three branches are 'accounted for' of the Ambrosio line on this soil.