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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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