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Here goes... (Part 1)

Suzanne Rhodes

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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The Human Experience of the 20th Century All Caught on Tape

Legacy Stories Blog

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 Schedule

Jean Marie "Wilcox" & L. A. "Butch" Hibben

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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Grandpa Told Me...

Judy Nickles

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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Edward Morgan and Rachel Cole Morgan

Carol

Edward Morgan Edward-Morgan-Birth-Certificate.pdf

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Miss Ruth

Brenda Tirrell

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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Something my Grandfather taught me

Brenda Tirrell

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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Mary Lou Clarke

Gordon Clarke

She went to UCLA for at least a couple of years as an Art Major. Update

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OH (darn). Engine Failure in the Dark

Ernest Daniel Kingsley

Oh @%+*&! (Darn!!) Engine Failure in the Dark Once, in 1984… just north of a little place called Badger Gap… near Yakima, Washington, I had an engine failure. At night. I got real scared. It is embarrassing to tell you just how scared a man can be and still maintain...

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You Can Be My Kid Any Time ...

Ernest Daniel Kingsley

In my spare time I do some volunteer work as a secretary for a fairly large church organization. There is always someone to do for, as there was one day recently. I arrived late, and I found a little girl quietly minding her...

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You'll Never Know Who He'll Be...

Ernest Daniel Kingsley

You Never Know Who He'll be Tomorrow … I have a few talents I brag about… but there have been moments when I have seen, recognized and accurately understood the potential of people or events… even before the wise and savvy remainder of the community. ...

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Our Courtship and Early Marriage

Ruth L.Meacham Memorial

I was just turning sixteen when Ralph Green and Golden Adams, two good-looking Airmen, spent a couple of hours flirting with me in the Union Pacific elevator (I was the elevator operator) and Golden asked me for a date that very night. Golden had a car, so we drove around the...

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Work Prior to Marriage

Ruth L.Meacham Memorial

When I was fourteen, I was out looking for work. My Dad wasn't able to work and mother was cleaning houses. It seemed like, as a family, we had sturggles to make ends meet and food on the table and clothes on our backs. So I thought if I could go...

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John Thomas Griffiths

Suzanne Tait

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH-1935 Author: Curtis Allen JOHN GRIFFITH, LOCAL OCTOGENARIAN, CROSSED OCEAN ON 2nd STEAMSHIP EVER TO MAKE TRIP In a neatly kept little bungalow, 66 Binns Blvd., lives a distinguished looking little old man. You may have seen him on the street. If you have you won’t forget him and...

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Dad's Louisville Slugger Philosophy of Life

Ernest Daniel Kingsley

Fur The Louisville Slugger Philosophy on Life… One day in… I don’t remember when… my oldest daughter, then age 15 years, 11 months and 28 days, came to me with a legal size yellow pad, a pencil...

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"Salem Remembered" - 2011 Eagle Scout Project

Salem Utah Heritage

In 2011, Chad Peterson developed his Eagle Project as an oral history collection of "Salem Remembered". He and others interviewed several long-time residents of Salem, Utah and asked a series of questions. They responded with their answers. These are the questions he asked: (1) What is your name? (2) What at...

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Fur

Ernest Daniel Kingsley

FUR My wife and I had wanted a little piece of farm land for years, and we ended up buying a 14 acre piece which was crowned with the biggest mistake of our marriage: a small, used double-wide mobile home. Now, don't take offense, ye salespersons of "manufactured...

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RSL #3: Aunt Gert

Michelle Beckman

Before I realized that I was going to embark on a journey as a Personal History Consultant and start my own business, I would interview my great-aunt Gert to learn about our family history. When she passed away, I offered to give a eulogy at her funeral. My only regret was...

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RSL #2 Mom

Michelle Beckman

How do you know how to care for a child when you are practically a baby yourself? I know that at twenty-one years of age, I didn't know myself or anything else well enough to care for a child. When I was twenty-one, I could barely make Oodles of Noodles and...

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