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Tuesday, October 29, 2024

That Time Grandpa Martin Blew Up the Schoolhouse and Uncle Ike Shot a Bull

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In my children's father's family, there had long been a story about how my former mother-in-law's maternal grandfather had blown...
Thursday, September 19, 2024

Precious Memories: Tying Shoes

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Miriam and Pixie on the front steps at our home on Bayview Boulevard, Klawock, Alaska, 1971. My dad taught me how to tie my shoes when I was...
Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Henry Jacobs: A War of 1812 Veteran Ancestor?

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View of the Camp of Col Laight's Regiment of Militia from the New York Public Library's Digital Collection Back in January 2017, I m...
Tuesday, July 30, 2024

The Death Certificate of Rose "June" (Barber) Morarity Eaton Wrone

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Death Certificate of June Wrone 1 While I have hardly been blogging at all the past few years, I have not stopped doing genealogical researc...
Sunday, May 14, 2023

A Busy Day for Weddings in the HOLST and ROBBINS Families

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I've been busy cleaning up items in the Downloads folder of my laptop.  In many cases, I downloaded an image of a record from a genealog...
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Friday, December 25, 2020

A New Blog: Shirley's Diary: A Depression-Era Girl's Story

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Today I started a new blog . Yes, I can hear what you're thinking!  "She hasn't kept up with her original one, and she's st...
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Sunday, February 16, 2020

Before MLK, There Was Elizabeth Peratrovich

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Seventy-five years ago today, the first anti-discrimination law was signed on American soil. It was more than two decades before the Civil...
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