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Ken White

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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Golden V. Adams Jr.

The "One" makes all the difference.

Over 200 descendants of Bertha Willis were among the members of the congregation at the devotional service. . .

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Suzanna Rawlins

Games I played as a Child....

Thanks Annie for this one.  I actually had to think.  I mainly remember childhood as either dance lessons, gymnasitics, and then finally for many many years, swim practice.  So I came home from school and went straight to practice.  So not too much time for games. I was a serious youngster!...
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Suzanna Rawlins

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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Tom Cormier

The Clubhouse

The Clubhouse
Boys will be boys. Oh yea. At the Cormier home the three oldest boys, Jimmy, Johnny and me, were fit to be tied. We knew Mom was too busy tending to the 7 other kids to be paying very close attention to us boys and Dad was always at work. What...
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Dick Pellek

Lion Hunters Of The Laikipia Plateau

Lion Hunters Of The Laikipia Plateau
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Adventures on the Laikipia Plateau Kenya   Going up-country in Kenya with a real adventurer was what Footloose Forester hoped all jobs would be like.  His friend agreed to the use of his full name and...
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Margaret Crowe

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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Millard Don Carriker

Even Hitler Had One Good Idea

Even Hitler Had One Good Idea
Soon after assuming power Adolf Hitler, knowing like many of our politicians today, how to curry favor with "the masses," ordered Frederick Porche to build a "Peoples Car."  An affordable vehicle for those masses whose adulation he needed.  It truly was a good idea.   Porche, knowing where his bread would...
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Bill Corey

Family Meals

Bill Corey grew up in Tarlee, South Australia. In this short reminiscence Bill talks about family meals.
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Elizabeth Hauser

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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Millard Don Carriker

Home is . . .

Thomas Wolfe, the author, wrote a book entitled “You Can’t Go Home Again.”   Johnny Cash told us in song that “The old home town looks the same.”    Cash, however, admits later in the song that he “was only dreaming.”  Wolfe got it right.  You can go to the “place” - but...
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Harriet Green

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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Dick Pellek

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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Dick Pellek

Footloose, Even In An Army Uniform

Footloose, Even In An Army Uniform
  On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   In the Army   As a draftee, the Army experience of the Footloose Forester was different from what many civilians might perceive as a typical military tour of duty.  He was called to duty when...
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Joyce Pounsett

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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Alice Domagalski

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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Christine Hulett Verdin

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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Allen Detwiler

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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Dick Pellek

To Fly--With The Paraglider In Your Backpack

To Fly--With The Paraglider In Your Backpack
  On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   To Fly A Paraglider From The Rim Of Fogo   This is a wishful thinking story that is part of a dreamer’s bucket list.  Yes, it is wishful thinking but it is something that is...
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Golden V. Adams Jr.

Gloria's 60th Birthday Gift

Gloria's 60th Birthday Gift
My youngest sister, Gloria (Adams) Schneider loves practical jokes!  Eight years ago, when I opened the birthday gift she had sent from Wisconsin for my sixtieth birthday I had no idea what to expect.  But as each of my sliblings, Lloyd, Jan, and Steve subsesquently received similar "packages" when they turned...
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