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Showing posts with label genealogy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label genealogy. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Family stories feature twists and turns that don't show up on genealogy sites

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Molly Reed Shay was known as "most beautiful" in St. Patrick’s Church, Iowa City, Iowa,  So says a description printed in tiny let...
Tuesday, October 06, 2020

Family Lore: in May 1915, Martin Hett waits in Liverpool for a British ship that isn't sunk by U-boats

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My sister Molly sent me a packet of family letters and documents a few months ago and asked me to make sense of them, see if they came toget...
Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Home of the free, land of the brave, and graveyard of forgotten pasts

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Genealogy once was the province of  retirees, Mormons, and the Daughters of the American Revolution. Young people didn't care because, w...
Monday, April 27, 2015

Meanwhile, in Liverpool, my grandfather awaits the Lusitania

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In "Dead Wake," Erik Larson tells the story of the last Atlantic crossing of the R.M.S. Lusitania, Larson is a fantastic storytell...
Saturday, March 17, 2012

St. Patrick's Day -- a look back

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On the road to the Black Hills this St. Patrick's Day. Too preoccupied with the upcoming St. Patrick's Day Pub Crawl in Deadwood to ...
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