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Post by baddog on Jun 22, 2022 19:10:20 GMT -5
Found the list, just not sure what to use a cipher on.
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Post by forgottenhistoryhunt on Jun 22, 2022 19:23:32 GMT -5
Found the list, just not sure what to use a cipher on. You have what you need in the names :-)
If anyone gets the list of names and they want verification, send them to me. But I think if you found them, you know you have them right.
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Post by forgottenhistoryhunt on Jun 23, 2022 8:09:49 GMT -5
The final guesses have started coming in, and there have been a lot of interesting names! Although none have been correct, and none have been suggested more than once, I wanted to share the names I have received so far: Helen Jeffreys Baker Anna Louise James Gertrude Cox K. Toby Guidy – most interesting and unique! Sally Bryson Wolf Addie L. Quinn Lavinia Morris Reed Dorothy W. Hall Ophelia Creed Nettles Ursula K. Dimick Mollie Birdie Young Pritchard – the longest one so far! Minnie Buckingham Harper Margaret E. Knight – inventor of the paper-bag-making machine :-) Erna Lois Markus Magnum When you find the correct name, it can be verified using the spelling as found, and she died before 1920.
If you have not solved the numbers yet, look for a searchable list of names.
Good luck! Part II awaits!
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Post by forgottenhistoryhunt on Jun 24, 2022 6:35:28 GMT -5
American Woman, Part I, Hint #5:
The person I am looking for does not have a first, middle or last name from the list.
Her last name is not a first or middle name from the list.
Her first name is not a last or middle name from the list.
Her middle name is not a first or last name from the list.
But it will look like this:
Xxxx X. Xxxxx
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Post by forgottenhistoryhunt on Jun 24, 2022 6:56:35 GMT -5
In case anyone still needs a hint for solving the numbers:
One of the names on the list is Darathula Latimer Lamey
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Post by forgottenhistoryhunt on Jun 25, 2022 7:24:43 GMT -5
In case anyone still needs a hint for solving the numbers: One of the names on the list is Darathula Latimer Lamey If you have not yet solved the numbers, please send me a message via private messaging here on MW with "Numbers" in the subject line.
I will provide you with additional hints.
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Post by forgottenhistoryhunt on Jun 25, 2022 16:57:46 GMT -5
The names of a lot of very interesting American Women have been streaming in over the past few days. So far, the one I am looking for has not been submitted, so it's still an open playing field. I don't know where many of these names came from, but it's fun for me to learn about these women. There are many creative minds at work! I can guarantee that when you find it, you will know it is correct :-)
If I don't have a correct answer by noon EDT tomorrow (Sunday 6/26), there will be one more clue posted. Because it might be the one that sends everybody in the right direction, I am announcing the date and time it will be posted. So be ready!
Also, before you give up, review clues 1-5 that I have already posted. I think you might have missed something :-)
If I do receive the correct answer before noon tomorrow, we will move on to Part II of the hunt :-)
As we get closer to the solution (and some are getting very close!), when you submit an answer, please include the method you used to solve it - thanks and good luck!
-FHH
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Post by mike6888 on Jun 25, 2022 18:59:36 GMT -5
I definitely missed something. I can't find hint #4.
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Post by forgottenhistoryhunt on Jun 25, 2022 19:37:23 GMT -5
I definitely missed something. I can't find hint #4. Hmm...Interesting...😉
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Post by forgottenhistoryhunt on Jun 26, 2022 11:00:02 GMT -5
Clue #6:
Lxxx X. Xxxxx
For verification, she shares a headstone with Jennie.
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Post by forgottenhistoryhunt on Jun 26, 2022 12:19:28 GMT -5
I received a correct answer to Part I of American Woman. Congratulations to tiffanilinntreasure who submitted the name:
Lucy W. Brock
She got the answer by working her way up the list, alternating between the first letter of the last name and the first letter of the first name:
K = Katy May Hewitt C = Tryphena Jones Cox O = Olive Sprague Richmond R = Yvonne C Ruoff B = Barbara Bloom Adling W= Gertrude Holmes Woeber Y = Yvonne Spor Allen C = Isabella Archibald Carr U = Una Singletary Newsom L = Darathula Latimer Lamey
If you read down the list, alternating the same way, it reads HTRYAGAIND :-)
Again, congratulations to the winner!
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Post by forgottenhistoryhunt on Jun 26, 2022 12:37:59 GMT -5
Explanation of the clues:
#1 Pointed you to a list instead of a cipher, and a very long list - Find A Grave has over 210 million entries.
#2 Again points you to find a list of names.
#3 I was getting a lot of names of famous women or women who had stories written about them, so I added "The name I am looking for is not a famous person"
#4 was not labeled as a clue, but it was a list of names I had received so far. Arranging them, I was able to use the same back-and-forth method of acrostic that I used in the hunt to spell (top to bottom): BACKWARD 'N UP which told you how to solve the puzzle. I noted that K. Toby Guidy was "most interesting and unique" because it was the only one I had received that used the first letters of the (first) names. Although it did not go back and forth, and the letters were rearranged, it did use a form of acrostic.
#5 I tried to reiterate that none of the actual names on the list were the name I was looking for. I included the template of Xxxx X. Xxxxx so you could see there were the same number of letters in the name as there were names on the list, suggesting you needed just one letter from each name.
#6 Including the first letter of her first name, it gave you a starting point to follow a pattern up the list of names.
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Post by goldhunter on Jun 26, 2022 12:54:20 GMT -5
Congratulations tiffanilinntreasure! I'm pretty sure I was still weeks away from trying that!
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Post by digduffer on Jun 26, 2022 13:10:44 GMT -5
Congratulations, that was a creative find!
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Post by tiffanilinntreasure on Jun 26, 2022 13:14:07 GMT -5
Thanks guys! That was a blast!
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