Strike Up The Band

Strike Up The Band
In the Spring of 1953 it seemed the Korean Police Action was going to go on forever with “Peace Talks” bogging down on who should sit on which side of the table, what shape the table should be, and where the talks should take place.   It had degenerated into a “Which...
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Cemetery Information

Barry J. Ewell's Blog on Genealogy - My GenShare.com enables individuals to learn many things regarding genealogy.  This series is his 86 part series on Cemeteries.  

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Road Trip

The Month of May was full of Genealogy fun with my Mother and looking for her Great Grandfather Creed Wilson. This month theme really ties in well with this trip we mande. The whole trip was based around genealogy. It seems like the womans side of a family really gets the...
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I am a Genealogical Mutt....

Well they say we American's are the true mutts of the genealogical world and after today I know I am.  I knew of my French and English and Irish and Scottish and American Indian  lineage... well today, digging around on my paternal grandfather's line - I get to add Dutch and...
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Family Meals

Family Meals
Margaret grew up in Lincoln, England during the 1930 and 40's. Here she recalls family meals.
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Family Meals

Bill Corey grew up in Tarlee, South Australia. In this short reminiscence Bill talks about family meals.
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The Lietenant Colonel - My Grandfather, on Memorial Day

The Lietenant Colonel - My Grandfather, on Memorial Day
This is my mother's writing about her hero - her father. On this Memorial Day, I can't get him out of my head. Love you, Grandaddy. You are a hero to all of us. "George Charles Shields, Jr. is the father of Catherine M. (Shields) Keller. I am she! I want...
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A Good Time with Music Friends

A Good Time with Music Friends
This special day began typically for March in Ohio, gray with blowing rain against the window panes.  How I wished the sun would pop out from behind the clouds. Today is the occasion for honoring a good friend and mentor for many of the musicians in our city.  Our friend Harriet...
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Show Your Friends The Trail With Google Earth

Show Your Friends The Trail With Google Earth
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Geography of the Past If it is true that a picture is worth 10,000 words, then the catalog of satellite photos in the archives of the Footloose Forester could develop into a longish travelogue. There is...
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My Childhood Home - Peterborough, South Australia

I grew up in a railway town called Peterborough in the outback of South Australia. Times were far different then and this story testifies to that.  
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My Home

My name is Alice Domagalski. I lived most of my married life in a place called Edilillie on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. We were not too far from Port Lincoln where my husband Stan and I turned an old blacksmith's shop into a home and a farm over a...
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My Scottish beginnings!

In 1998 I went to work for a local family owned medical supply company; owners were friends of my family. It was the beginning of my love for geneology and finding my roots. The owners of this company were E.J. and Rob Taylor. Rob was born in Scotland and came to...
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Hog Killing Time

When I was just a little boy, it was kind of an old-fashioned kind of farm.  We had all kind of livestock -- hogs and cattle and a few sheep and a chicken house full of chickens and so on.  We were pretty self sufficient. In the fall when it would...
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My Sister, my best family friend

My Sister, my best family friend
Margaret Crowe talks about her sister, her best family friend, as they grew up in Lincoln during the 1930s and 1940s.
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Dreams Of Secret Pleasures Always Bring On Smiles

Dreams Of Secret Pleasures Always Bring On Smiles
  On the road...again!!! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester       Secret Pleasures A few memories of delicious pleasures are stuck in the corners of his mind.  Some are on the light side, while others are a bit darker. Everybody harbors them, but avoids bringing them into...
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Prompt: Family Slogans or Mottoes

It took me a bit to recall any slogans or mottoes used in my family, but they've started to come, so I've started to type. "Kwicherbellyakin" - I don't know if that's spelled correctly, according to Grandma Jolley's wooden plaque that used to hang above one of the doors in her...
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Grandpa Adams' saying

I remember by grandpa W.A. Adams giving me a bit of his wisdom.  He always liked to share slogans and sayings, and had lots of them to share with others.  I remember one in particular. In his nineties, there were times that he could see that I was frustrated as a...
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The "We" Tapistry

I recently went through my book of remembrance looking at pictures and reading excerpts of the letters. My mother compiled it year by year as I grew up with at least one picture every year and a letter from her and/or my dad describing things that happened that year. In each...
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Family Sayings

My mother was the source of a few sayings that have survived her.  One she used grated on my nerves each time I heard it.  It had to do with my doing "chores" around the house.  I honestly wasn't burdened with very many but once in a while when I was...
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Forger and Grave Robber

Forger and Grave Robber
  On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Forger and Grave Robber   He never thought of himself as evil, crooked or even shady, but the Footloose Forester definitely does have a few skeletons in his closet. The thought of his forgeries...
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