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I began my genealogy obsession looking for my great-grandfather, Harry Thurman Mercer. My mom and uncle really didn't know much about his life story as a small boy or anything about his family. We all believed him to be an only child. I knew he was born and died in Illinois...
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There are a number of stories and legends behind Missouri's sobriquet "Show-Me" state. The slogan is not official, but is common throughout the state and is used on Missouri license plates. The most widely known legend attributes the phrase to Missouri's U.S. Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver, who served in the United...
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Bill recalls the delight he got from getting his first motor bike in Adelaide in the 1930's.
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This is a picture of my grandparents on my mother's side of the family. It was Abram Huffman and Electa Peyton Huffman.
That's my mother to the right of them.
When this picture was taken, it was close to their house. And I can see the big grape arbor that they had. They had a wash house and coal house built as one building. It was like two rooms. One was the wash room and the other was the coal house.
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I've smelled cows, and I'm tired of smelling cows. That's the reason I got away from them. They are very stinky beasts. And when you are around livestock, you smell like livestock. It's just -- I don't know, there are a lot of nice things. In the spring when the flowers...
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Jill talks about her carefree childhood growing up in Clare South Australia. She tells us how she played dolls and dress up with her friends and describes a variety of other childhood games.
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Throughout my life I have come across a lot of smells. One of the smells I enjoyed a lot was Estae Lauder used to make a perfume. I think they called it Estae. I thought that was the best smelling stuff I ever came across. I found out what it was...
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I think this was around the time I was in the sixth or seventh grade or something. Anyhow, while we were sitting there in the classroom, the nun had me get up. I used to be an altar boy, and we had to speak our prayers in Latin. She was...
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Jill recalls family meals while growing up in Clare, South Australia.
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What are the things that make me most proud of my country?
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The 4th- The celebration of our Country's Independence from England. Let's focus on the pieces of the whole for a moment and celebrate the common every-day citizens who, over the centuries, have voluntarily (and let's not forget not so voluntarily-drafted) stepped into harms way to protect the initial Declaration of Independence...
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Now I’d like to introduce this fine lot
From Papa to Doyle – the very last tot.
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Approximately 85 of Col John Hazzard Carson's many descendants met in Marion, NC on the third weekend in June 2012, for the first weekend reunion. John was born in 1752 in the Kingdom of Ireland and emigrated to America in 1773. In 1775, he moved to Burke County, North Carolina in an area...
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