Category: Historical Events
Ancestors who were part of major historical events.
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posted Friday, November 21, 2014 This piece was adapted for this blog from a longer two-part piece on my Tad’s Happy Funtime blog. That version spends more time on me than is proper for a biographical sketch of my grandfather, Russell Hudson Clark, Sr. (1920-2002), but if you’d like to see that longer version, part…
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posted Sunday, December 7, 2014 Reposting to mark Pearl Harbor Day. When Things Got Serious Bobby enlisted in the Army 26 July 1941 at Camp Blanding, near his hometown of Winter Park, Florida. He did well in training, and ended up applying for a special school, hoping to become a pilot. The Army being the Army,…
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A Quick Overview of my work under this surname The revised Callin Family History is where I focused most of my efforts from 2015 to 2022. I started with James Callin, my 5x-great grandfather, and traced as many of his descendants as I could using Ancestry’s World Deluxe membership (which includes partial access to Newspapers.com…
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A Quick Overview of my work under this surname This is my wife’s paternal line – which reminds me: SIDE NOTE: If you’re a genealogist/family historian, I hope you’re not using “mother’s maiden name” in your security questions for any of your sensitive online accounts. Because it is distressingly easy to learn that information, even…
Mightier Acorns 