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Posts about Mightier Acorns, but not necessarily about ancestors or research.
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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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Progress is rarely linear.
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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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My favorite and I went on a little getaway trip. But we’re back.
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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.
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Expanding on the story of John Q. Callin; a man who led a life too quiet to call “dynamic” but too active to call “quiet”!
