Category: World War II
Ancestors who served in the Second World War (1939-1945).
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The lifetime of Margaret Forbes (1903–1997) As we begin a New Year, I thought I’d start with a biography of one of those “Mighty Acorns” I set out to discover so many years ago. A cousin of mine, but also a genealogist/family historian who left behind a significant piece of her family’s puzzle. Margaret Althea…
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The Box I got a call back from Wiley’s niece, Nancy. At first, she was understandably hesitant. A strange man calls out of the blue and tells you, “I am a family history researcher, and I think your estranged uncle (who you may or may not have ever met) just died.” What would you think?…
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Where did Wiley Cowan come from? After the Revolutionary War, we lost track of James Callin. We don’t know for certain where he lived or how many children he had, but we are reasonably sure that he had two sons, James and John, who settled on a farm together between 1810 and 1816 in what…
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Part 1: A note from San Francisco On 10 June 2022, I found a note in my Ancestry messages. It began: I had just published my Callin Family History that March, documenting as many descendants of James Callin as I could, and I remembered the Cowan family. I did the bulk of my work on…
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Originally Published on 2/26/2015 I found it difficult to compose a story about Grandma Nancy. She was probably the most present of my grandparents but I haven’t quite isolated a narrative thread for her, yet. This is the patchwork story I chose to tell a decade ago, in actual snapshots. (Lightly edited to update links…
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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,…
Mightier Acorns 