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Posts about Mightier Acorns, but not necessarily about ancestors or research.
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Finding evidence is never a straightforward process; here’s an examination of a source that holds as many questions as answers.
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More sentiment than research this week – but that just goes to show how much harder it is to document feelings about someone.
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It’s one thing to read about a method; it’s another thing to plan it out and put it into practice. But here is how I hope to close in on my Revolutionary War ancestor!
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What we know is not always the truth, but what we remember can be, if we are careful about the way we tell the story. Minds and memories are tricky things.
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Now that we’ve covered those who left, let’s begin looking at those who stayed in Milton Township!
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I’m still early in my Ahnentafel series, but I can already see how easy it is to lose the stories of the women in our family trees. It’s harder to document the way someone loved those around them, the acts of service, the everyday interaction. And documents favor the histories of men. So while I…
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Pausing my Ancestry membership reminded me that my investment of time and money there doesn’t translate well to a tangible thing that others can use.
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A guided tour of the updates to Grandpa Bob’s WikiTree profile, with some of the stories that didn’t make it in.
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The past is foreign, and the people who lived there are complicated. We owe it to them and to ourselves to see them as clearly as possible, even through the murky filter of history.
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I got some pretty good mileage out of doing the “Family Reunion” and “Wavetops” series, based on the “My Sixteen” idea. Now I’m ready for another challenge – one that might feel familiar to some of you!
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