Category: Genealogy Concepts
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This week, I’d like to hear from you: What treasured musical heritage ties you to your ancestors? A particular hymn or song? Do you have any professional musicians in your tree? Let me know!
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Sometimes progress feels like a step backward. But it is still a step in the right direction.
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Alfred was a friendly, funny man, according to the impressions I inherited. But he is also an entry point into a deeper vein of history.
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The evidence we have suggests hard times and heavy years, but that’s the problem with not having a lot of evidence.
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Of my great-grandparents, David Clark’s biography leaves me with more questions than I can expect to answer. Maybe that’s okay.
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Another installment of the Callin families who stayed in Milton Township, Ohio, after the first generation of settlers (James and John) died.
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Great-Grandma Merle was one of the last two people on this Ahnentafel journey who I actually met. And since I’ve written about her story before, I’ll try to capture some of my memories of what she was like.
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I didn’t think I had much to add to his story, but there always seems to be more to say if you just dig down a little bit.
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Bertha and John were another couple who were clearly best friends for 50 years. Here’s how I see these funny, interesting people.
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Making assumptions and generalizations about who “belongs” is a mistake as old as America itself. Our own history shows that arguments warning of seemingly permanent, intolerable differences between groups of people should not be treated with the weight that people give them.
Mightier Acorns 