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Connecting Cousins: the Polívka Puzzle
Crossing the threshold after 210 years, two branches of the same family re-unite under a single roof
1766 – 03/19/2013
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A Civil War Hero, A Father, An Ancestor
Remiro Spicer recovered from injury and months at the infamous Andersonville prison to raise a family in Upstate New York
November 25, 1840 – May 4, 1926
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The Search for Helen's Family
A great-grandson's search for his ancestor's biological roots using DNA
March 2, 1889 – February 26, 1983
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It Began in a Graveyard
Not quite 14 years old, I met my ancestors by accident and life has never been the same.
February 1993 – July 31, 2004
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The Widow Sanger: Poverty & Charity in 1700 Mass
Mary Reynolds, Kent, England, arrived 1630, married Richard Sanger 1649, 7 kids. In 1705, at 75, begging food/wood at town meeting.
1475 – 46
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Potato Harvest and Family History
Work, work, work - Morning, noon and night. Time to sleep? What, I need to find my ancestors?
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Kissing cousins, fifteen times over.
Robert & Dick met at Brown University in 1979. They share fifteen direct Ancestors, and more common lines of descent.
1576 – 1692
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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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Who Do You Think You Are: Cindy Crawford
This "American mutt" learns about the distant ancestor who immigrated to the US in search of religious freedom... but didn't stay for long!
1633 – 2013
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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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Who Do You Think You Are: Jim Parsons
He wanted to find a connection to France and an ancestor who was an artist like him... and his genealogy delivered the goods!
16 March 1761 – December 7, 1854
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The Amazing Ancestry of Abraham Phillips
"Born 1808, Philadelphia," read his tombstone in a Mississippi Jewish cemetery. Could I prove my hunch about what that meant?
1668 – May 2013
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The Stewarts of Williamsport
I am trying to preserve history, to keep people and places of my ancestors from passing into history, without acknowledgement or notice, und
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A Choate Ancestor in Colonial America
The John Choate and Cora Gibbs family has a direct ancestor who volunteered to defend his community, and fought for US independence
6/26/1761 – 10/19/1781
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