Joyce recalls her grand parents from both sides of her family. She has done some excellent research about all her ancestors and their many talents.
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Annette tells the story of one of her ancestors linked to the famous Coutts banking family and who was, at her time, the richest woman in Britain - Baroness Angela Burdett-Coutts.
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Being an orphan Pat has few memories of her parents, let alone her grandparents. Here Pat recalls what she has managed to learn about her grandfather - the Laughing Policeman.
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Margaret talks about her grandparents. One of her grandfathers dies when his fishing trawler was lost at sea leaving his wife to bring up five children in Grimsby. A story of courage and perseverence.
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Jill Sayner recalls her grandfather, R H Tilbrook, who was the proprietor of the "Northern Argus" in Clare, South Australia. The paper was founded by his father ( H H Tilbrook) who was also noted for his early photographic work.
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Helen did not know her maternal grandparents, John Edward Gibbs and Millicent Read. However she tells an interesting story of their lives as well as the feats of some on their more notable ancestors.
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Quinn’s Hill Mrs. Anna Quinn was old and frail. We youngsters who lived on Church Street in Netcong, New Jersey remember her as tiny and wrinkled; and she walked slowly and deliberately. Maybe she was 85, maybe 90. But she was a sweetheart. She was always kind and...
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Ta le of Discovery Arial fonts are neat and tidy, like me; at the tender size of 28, or 26, on Heading 2; Heading 3 is still bold and brash but.... but when you change the font to A stodgy old Courier New in Size 18-- it doesn't...
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Going Home David Dominic Bell Daylight is slowing fading away. I find myself walking the snowy path of a tiny traveling carnival. The skies are a chalky gray and I feel lost and alone. The intense cold seeps through my bones and I can't stop shivering. Not anyone else here,...
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Well, it's been a while since I first signed up for this, and this will be my first story. I've been putting it off because I really only signed up for this so I could read grandpa's stories. But then I reflected on that and realized it was pretty selfish. And...
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Using 21 st century technology it is now possible to archive and share the living history of the 20 th century before it is lost forever. The Living Legacy Project makes it all possible. While more baby boomers are using 21 st century technology to share today’s photos with iPhones...
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SPEAKING/WORKSHOP (Living Legacy Project) 6 June – So. Calif. Genealogical Society Jamboree, Burbank “Free Smart Phone Apps” 9-12 July – Gena and Jean Genealogy Journey Cruise to Ensenada TBD 8 August – Corona (CA) Family History Seminar TBD If you are in the area and want to...
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My grandfather, Petillo Emmett Leatherwood, loved history because he lived it. Growing up quite literally at his knee, I lived history vicariously and learned to love it, too. He was born in 1873 on a tenant farm in Bastrop County, TX. Orphaned by the death of his father at the age...
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Miss Ruth Hide Details FROM: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. TO: Tom Tirrell Message starred Thursday, January 31, 2013 2:20 PM Miss Ruth Price Sometime about 1950 when I was ten years old, a unique person came into my life. Like many of the good things that happened to me, this came about because...
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My grandfather, the only grandparent I knew- we called him Daddy Ball, was so very dear to me. He lived in a shack about a mile or two out of McCaskill, Arkansas, in Hempstead County, Redland Towhship, near where I was born. I knew him from the time I...
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