Category: Family Testimony
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Musing about an inflection point In my defense, there is just so much to know! Let me back up: a few weeks ago, Substacker Kevin Ferguson asked, …and you can go see what I said, of course, and take a look at Kevin’s newsletter about family history and winemaking. But ever since, I’ve been thinking…
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posted on Friday, February 27, 2015 This is one of my favorite finds – thanks to my cousin, Chad, for sending it my way all those years ago! I’d love to hear about your famous connections if you’d like to share. In 2007 music journalist Andrew Means published Some Memories: Growing Up with Marty Robbins –…
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A Quick Overview of my work under this surname When I was new to genealogy, I did what a lot of people do: I uncritically relied on the work of others. A lot of what I know about the Huff family came to me via the late Max Huff. Unfortunately for me, by the time…
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posted Friday, November 21, 2014 This piece was adapted for this blog from a longer two-part piece on my Tad’s Happy Funtime blog. That version spends more time on me than is proper for a biographical sketch of my grandfather, Russell Hudson Clark, Sr. (1920-2002), but if you’d like to see that longer version, part…
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posted Sunday, December 7, 2014 Reposting to mark Pearl Harbor Day. When Things Got Serious Bobby enlisted in the Army 26 July 1941 at Camp Blanding, near his hometown of Winter Park, Florida. He did well in training, and ended up applying for a special school, hoping to become a pilot. The Army being the Army,…
Mightier Acorns 