Category: Arizona
Families that lived in the state and left records behind there.
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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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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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Married after the end of the Second World war, my maternal grandparents embarked on a lengthy 50-year journey. Here’s a taste of it!
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The last of four installments where we read the transcript of Grandma Merle’s Travelogue!
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Grandma Merle finally gets around to meeting Grandpa Dick in the recording of her memories.
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In the second part of her 60-minute recording, Great-grandma Merle talked about living in Glendale (AZ) in 1907 and how deeply diseases like TB affected the family
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The first of two artifacts that came to my possession, recently. This 60-minute tape has a lot of memories from my great-grandmother, Merle (Huff) Witter.
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Let’s see what this WordPress jalopy can do! As promised, I’m back from a brief summer hiatus. Kate and I took a road trip to Baltimore to visit the kids, and grab some pie at Perkins, and now we’re ready to settle back into our regularly scheduled programming. I haven’t exactly been idle on the…
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And other anniversaries Today’s date, April 23rd, turns up a lot in my research. I mean, sure, it happens every year, but sometimes I am overwhelmed by how often a specific date intrudes itself into whatever I happen to be reading on a given day. For example, I don’t know why I remember this, but…
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The family of Albert Crydler Huff (1854-1936) Albert C Huff1 (1854-1936) was the son of Lewis Huff and Catherine Stroud, born on 11 Apr 1854 in Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio. He grew up in Hancock County, but by 1875, his rather large family had moved nearly 800 miles southwest to Elsmore Township, Allen County, Kansas.…
Mightier Acorns 