Melanie DeVos Molinaro and her husband, Michael Molinaro, of Atlanta, Georgia, had been working on a line of Italian ancestors in his family history for some time without much progress. The couple got excited in 2012 when other FamilySearch users sent them a note to say they were looking for information on the same relatives and promised to share any information they found.
And then — radio silence for five years.
The Molinaros didn’t hear anything from the other FamilySearch users until 2018, when the strangers sent them another note saying they had just returned from Italy and had some records to send the Molinaros. Melanie Molinaro said they happily accepted the offer, expecting information on three or four ancestors.
What happened next was the start of what the Molinaros now refer to as their “family history miracle.”