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Four Walls @FourWalls (86875) • United States 11 Dec

No, this has not been the best of weeks. It is to be expected, of course. I have problems this time of year every year. Tuesday was the 18th anniversary of the passing of my dear mother of blessed memory. Since late...

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Meet Aloysius Gregor Walke

April @thislittlepennyearns (68246) • Defuniak Springs, Florida 21 May 24

(I have decided to share randomness that I learn a long the way of discovering more of my family history. I actually have known about this particular Mr. Walke for awhile, because he isn't as far back as some. But I've always...

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Johann Jacob Wagner and Mary E Frankart

April @thislittlepennyearns (68246) • Defuniak Springs, Florida 19 May 24

When digging through family tree stuff on Ancestry.com earlier I traced my paternal grandfather's paternal line back to my great-great-great-great grandparents. I always get a little excited when a picture pops up with the tips...

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Teenage Memories

celticeagle @celticeagle (189988) • Boise, Idaho 18 Jan 22

When I was about fourteen or fifteen I had a girlfriend who had a sad family history. I will name her Linda for privacy reasons. Her parents were divorced and she lived with her mom who was an alcoholic. I recall one time her...

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bomb shelter

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Family History

J.N.R Dutton @jnrdutton (3452) • United States 16 Mar 21

I was spending a lot of time this morning doing family history research. It started b/c I was looking for my great grandmother Annie Alma Christy (Shelton)'s obituary, and went from there. Found out my family on the Shelton side...

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He served as juror, BEFORE he fell out of the barn loft

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 8 Jun 20

So a few days ago I told you about how John fell out of a barn loft during a total eclipse of the sun. He was on the look out for Native Americans, and it's likely he got startled / disoriented and simply kept walking. Well,...

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It's been a long time since I've talked about this...

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 23 Nov 19

So I figured I might talk about it again. I had a few other ideas for discussions, but I'll stick with this one. I have written about this in creative format a long time ago,but I deleted that discussion awhile back. This is...

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Newly Uncovered Buried Treasure: Precious Family Photos

skydancer @skydancer (2101) • United States 2 May 19

For the longest time, I had been very upset that I wasn't left much in the way of original photos of my paternal grandfather's family line. It seemed every other family member from that line of the family had all kinds of...

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Discovering Long Lost Relatives

Deborah-Diane @DeborahDiane (40851) • Laguna Woods, California 26 Nov 18

Last Christmas, my husband and I sent DNA samples to Ancestry. com. Periodically during the past year, we received messages from Ancestry that they had discovered a possible relative. In every case, it was someone we already knew...

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My Ancestors in 1919

Deborah-Diane @DeborahDiane (40851) • Laguna Woods, California 19 Oct 18

Last Christmas, my husband and I ordered DNA kits from Ancestry.com. This week, a young woman contacted me through Ancestry and said that we were distantly related. The young woman put me in touch with her aunt, who is about ten...

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My bridge in Montana

The Horse @TheHorse (238361) • Walnut Creek, California 14 Sep 18

Before I was born, my dad and others made a bridge across the creek at our family cabin in Montana. In the 1980s, when I was a very young man, and my father was gone, I tore out the old, rotting bridge and made a new one. Since...

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Genealogy: Favorite Resources

skydancer @skydancer (2101) • United States 29 May 18

I have been researching my genealogy off and on since early 2003. Over time, I have made use of different resources to aid me in my research. Here are some of my favorites. 1. Ancestry.Com Everyone probably knows this one,...

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Genealogy

Lynn Fowler @lynnief (1203) • Australia 26 Mar 18

Have you ever tried to do the genealogy for your family? How far back were you able to trace? I started doing ours a few years ago. I was able to go back 5 generations on my father's side, but got absolutely nowhere on my...

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I'm Related to Davy Crockett!!!

Chris Bergstrom @chrissbergstrom (10767) • Banks, Oregon 12 May 17

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My Great Grandmother - Retha Rand Smith

Chris Bergstrom @chrissbergstrom (10767) • Banks, Oregon 11 May 17

Retha Eula (Rand) Smith - My Maternal Grandmother Ellen's mother, This is the Great Grandmother i have referred to in my "Stories from Grandma" series. Great Grandma Retha was the 2nd oldest of 11 Children, born in 1918 and...

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Did he feed his Baby Sister to the hogs????

Chris Bergstrom @chrissbergstrom (10767) • Banks, Oregon 9 May 17

A story my Great Aunt Agnes used to tell us was that when she was a baby her mother had been joking with her 4 year old son whom was upset about yet another sister she said well why don't we just feed her to the hogs...

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She was married 26 times!!!

Chris Bergstrom @chrissbergstrom (10767) • Banks, Oregon 5 May 17

While researching my family tree i discovered i am related to to a rich heiress to piddled away her fortune left to her by her adoptive father, and who's many marriages could be the all time record. According to a fellow...

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Visiting My Great Uncle

Chris Bergstrom @chrissbergstrom (10767) • Banks, Oregon 20 Apr 17

Today I went and visited my Great Uncle and fixed his computer for him, then I had a breakfast burrito with him and my Great Aunt Carol. I then showed her some of the family research I had done for her on her family. She seemed so...

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Philippine Relatives of Bonifacio Gayo Ulatan

Chris Bergstrom @chrissbergstrom (10767) • Banks, Oregon 5 Apr 17

Here is a bit of an update on info i have found about Bonifacio's Phillippine relatives, apparently although he was born in Luzon, he lived in La Union? Is this close to Luzon or much farther? i contacted some Ulatan's i found on...

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Relative Race

Chris Bergstrom @chrissbergstrom (10767) • Banks, Oregon 4 Apr 17

This is a newer show that I just started watching it airs on BYU TV it is similar to the amazing race they do alot of contests and drive around trying to reach there destinations but what is Unique is there destination is a...

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