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A brief travelogue from the previous century In 1999, I was serving in the U.S. Air Force and stationed at a tiny base in Lincolnshire, England. My parents came to visit in April, and we rented a people mover for a road trip to Scotland. You can’t see him, but wee baby Seamus is in…
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The first of two lines of mothers Normally, we see people refer to their “line” in terms of a particular surname. Even when we take a mother’s line into account, we tend to follow her father’s surname back through subsequent generations before we look at her mother – and her mothers. This week, I’m going…
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posted Friday, August 25, 2017 Note: This story is reposted from the old Mightier Acorns blog. If you find any of the links are broken, please let me know so I can fix them. When Grandma Played the Organ In his 1995 book, The Five Love Languages, pastor Gary Chapman outlined five ways to express…
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A Quick Overview of my work under this surname This is my maternal grandmother’s family, Alberta Jane (Tuttle) Clark (1925-2017). I’ve traced them back to Samuel Tuttle – though not to the same Samuel Tuttle many of the public trees on Ancestry and FamilySearch would have you believe. There is a Rev. Samuel Tuttle who…
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My genealogy tools of choice This post is meant to provide you, dear reader, with some insight into how I work: tools I use, techniques I employ, and what I’m trying to discover. If you have been doing family history for any length of time, you might have gained different experiences which means some of…
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