Genealogy breakthrough

I had another good break in my genealogy work last night while my husband was at a Linux Users Group meeting. I had found someone with my grandfather’s name marrying a certain person in 1949. My grandmother passed away when my dad was young, and he had a step-mom that I barely knew. We called her “Chole,” and this person’s name was Soledad Romero. I figured it was fairly close, the year of the marriage is when my dad was about 6, which seemed to add up. I wasn’t sure though, so I downloaded this person, the event, and the other linked items to my “Research” database. There they waited until someone sent me an email thanking me for submitting a grave-locator link to their database. She said that the link was now up on their listing for Los Angeles County CA and gave me a link to their listing. So I clicked it, and there was the link I submitted, and I clicked that too. I had found the other day that the search wouldn’t bring up every person of a given surname, and sometimes you have to add a few letters of the first name to make it work. Now, to test this, I just casually typed in my maiden name to see what it would come up with. Some of the names are common names, and I’m not quite sure why I decided to click on who I did, but I clicked on a Soledad Aceves... that’s when I thought, “hey, wait a minute...” I opened up my research database, and the date of death reported by Rose Hills as the person buried next to my grandfather is the same date of death provided by the International Genealogical Index for the person who supposedly married him in 1949. I then looked her up in the social security death index, which listed her last residence in St. George Utah, which I knew to be true of my dad’s step-mom. So with Soledad Romero and Soledad Aceves having the same death date, her being buried next to my grandfather, and all the dates adding up properly, I thought that was confirmation enough and went ahead and added her and her family to my “live” database. Then following leads from there, I dug a little more and found more members of that family. By the end of the night (about 2 hours work or so), I had my dad’s step-mom, three of her siblings, her parents, and all four grandparents. She and her parents have birth and death dates, as do all of the siblings. There are also marriage dates for her and her parents. Of course, this doesn't replace the need for independent confirmation, such as marriage certificates, birth certificates and death certificates, but it does at least let me know who I'm looking for. Current stats: Individuals ---------------------------- Number of individuals: 131 Males: 66 Females: 65 Individuals with incomplete names: 1 Individuals missing birth dates: 71 Disconnected individuals: 5 (Mom’s cousins, I haven’t made all of the links between them) Family Information ---------------------------- Number of families: 34 Unique surnames: 23 I think that part of the reason why I had many more hits online with her than with other branches of my family is because she converted to LDS in her later years, and may have submitted this information to the Genealogical branch herself. There is a batch number and sheet number as source to some of the information, referencing something member-submitted that I can request a copy of. I’m adding that to my genealogy wishlist for in a paycheck or two. Some other items I want to request: grandfather’s death certificate in hopes of getting his parent’s names (got them online from the LDS search, but there was no source information- I want some kind of confirmation), and Soledad’s social security application which may have more information on their marriage,