Googling Grandma

Today,  I sat down with my laptop and decided to enter my grandmother's name - Caroline McMurray Davies - into the Google search.

Here is what I found: there was a link to her obituary in Calgary paper. It showed her death date as June 3rd, 1981, the obituary ran two days in the paper on June 4th and 5th, 1981.(Where was I at that time? How old was I? I need to know these things to put everything into perspective)

It says she was 79 when she died, I had never bothered to figure that out before.  My mom is 83, and still lives alone and takes care of herself. My grandma had been in a rest home for a number of years (I need to find that out) with Parkinson's disease.



There was also a link to one of grandma's brothers - Milford - it showed several pieces of information about him, but one thing that was wrong was it listed one of his sisters being named Hattie, and her name was really Lottie.

It shows how important to use primary sources and not just take what you find on the internet as true.

Laptop compliments of my son, John. Thanks!