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How I Got Into Genealogy
Not many people can say they got started at 12, but I did! Here's the full story.
July 1991 – 2013
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A 14-year old's quest to find her grandfather
How in finding the man, I discovered my Galician roots.
1849 – 2012
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The Secrets of Lonni Wernicke Wheeler Sanger
How the truth behind my grand-mother's life was revealed as gossip at her burial, and only shown to be true 20 years later.
1891 – 1987
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The woman behind the picture
She is not smiling for the photo. She is not even looking at the camera. Who is my great grandmother? What does her expression mean?
1828 – 1917
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A Wondering Child
I believe that I was chosen before I came here to write about those who wanted their stories told which is why I was a wondering child...
c. 1920 – 2013
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Would you abandon this girl in Liverpool?
The story of how my great-grandmother almost didn't make it to the U.S.
12/4/1901 – 2000
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Rabbi Adolph Huebsch, Bernhardt, and Us
Our first encounter with Rabbi Huebsch moved us to tears, but is he even related to our (great-)grandfather Bernhardt?
1525 – May 2010
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Where it all began, my journey into the past.
The Wencl J. & Theresia (Braulich) Haberman Family
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Who Do You Think You Are: Chelsea Handler
Though raised in a Jewish household, Chelsea confronts her family’s deepest mystery: her grandfather Karl Stöcker’s rumored Nazi past.
1933 – 1944
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Bad News: Headstones and Headlines
A first experiment searching historic newspaper archives is successful, but yields a ghastly surprise.
1900 – 8/4/2013
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Who Do You Think You Are: Zooey Deschanel
Zooey had always heard her Quaker ancestors were active abolitionists, but the extent of their involvement is truly remarkable.
1800 – October 1852
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Vincent Stories and Memories
Christina Elizabeth Nicholls Vincent was my Great-Grandmother. I remember my Mom telling me stories of her life.
1855 – 1908
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Who Do You Think You Are: Tricia Yearwood
Ten years after nearly hanging for stealing deer from a nearby manor, Tricia's ancestor would suffer Indians stealing animals from his land.
December 28, 1754 – 1827
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Searching For Sarah Doyle
This is the story of my Great-Great Grandmother Sarah Doyle. A slave to the Burwell Lee family of Virginia
1840 – 1870
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My Maternal Grandmothers - Annie & Fannie
Maternal Grandmothers ~ Annie CARTER JACKSON & Fannie JACKSON BARWICK
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86 and "I wish I were 18 again."
here are stories I have told to my son and daughter, my granddaughter and grandson, and which I hope I can tell to my great granddaughter.
9/26/0916 – October 22, 1977
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Mr. Stokes, My Grandfather
This episode of my life events deals with my relations with my grandfather, Mr. Stokes, not Grandfather Stokes, "Mr. Stokes."
Dec 22, 181892 – January 22, 1936
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