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Adoption and Genealogy
Cousins are Cousins. I have very few first cousins. First cousins once removed, second cousins, and third cousins abound, including two second cousins who...
Read moreMemorabilia With a Story
Family stories, amazing or amusing? My maternal grandmother passed away in 2000. Amongst a box of her papers, I found a fifty-year-old uncancelled check....
Read moreHow to Date a Snapshot
Finding an old labeled snapshot is so rewarding, because there are hundreds of unlabed specimens in drawers, boxes and albums everywhere.
Read moreAntique Touring Car 1909 or 1910
Like many families, we have studio photographs, snapshots, and now digital photographs galore. Way too many of them are not labeled. However, those that are...
Read morePrestonia P.T.A. Jefferson Co., Kentucky, 1950
Flora A. Breitenstein, a.k.a. Mrs. Emil R. Breitenstein, was the president of the Prestonia P.T.A. in Jefferson Co., Kentucky in 1950. She saved memorabilia...
Read moreImmigration
America – A Nation Of Immigrants If, as I have long suspected, Temperence (Baley) Cocke was the daughter of Cecely (?) Jordan Farrar, she...
Read moreWhat’s in a Name?
Unusual Names are Fun and Informative and Clues A friend told me her grandfather’s grandfather’s name was Rensselaer Holmes. I wanted to know more,...
Read moreSocial Studies Teachers, One of the Best
I was lucky to have Mr. Burrows for 6th grade social studies at Cedar Hill Elementary School, so were my sister and brothers. I...
Read moreSemantics – Are You From Here?
Native, Born, Bred, Reared, Raised, or Just From Somewhere Recently, Reinette Jones, a staff librarian at University of Kentucky Libraries, asked a provocative question,...
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