When I first started researching my Jobe family, I naively thought it would be pretty easy.
Stories are just that, stories.
They may offer great clues in researching the past, but I was pleased to discover that the story of having only 2 sons in each generation wasn't accurate. Turns out that in one of the generations I found to have 2 sons, there were also at least 7 daughters. Jobe, along with all its variations, is more common than I would have thought. Now, that took some getting used to, after only knowing 6 others. While I haven't been able to connect my Jobe family to any of the other Jobe families out there, it has been truly amazing to connect with a cyber-family of Jobe researchers.