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Posts about Mightier Acorns, but not necessarily about ancestors or research.
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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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History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. And so did my ancestor, whose frustration with the outcome of the Civil War was captured in his poetry.
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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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