Reading and Roaming
NAMES THAT ARE MEMORABLE My maternal grandfather was a Texan born in 1894. While in the service, he went home to Pennsylvania with a good friend where he met and then married his friend’s sister, my grandmother. My grandfather moved east to Pennsylvania and then together they re-located to Adrian, Michigan where they lived out their lives. And …
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DELVING INTO ONE’S PAST In my experience, individuals start getting seriously interested in genealogy, their family’s past, when they hit their 50’s. Middle age has settled in, the kids are grown or on their way out the door, and curiosity about one’s forebears rises to the fore. In my extended family, my Uncle John, my …
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