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Candy, Baseball, Alcohol
Planning the big genealogy trip that I’ve been talking about for years.
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You Can’t Save Everything
And really, should you try?
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Boxes and Bags and Threads
I have the rest of my mom’s family materials. It’s a lot to unpack.
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I Like Old Stuff: Kurtz’s Ledger
Among my family heirlooms is this ledger, which is basically a handwritten genealogy database. Long before there was a Family Tree Maker or an Ancestry,…
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There’s no official club for Folks Who Get All Up in Dead People’s Business, but in the barest sense, that’s what I do.
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