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September 23, 2008 05:33 PM EDT -- My Great Aunt Mae (my maternal Grandma Alice's sister) was a unique lady and one of my personal heroes. She chose not to marry, spinster being the preferred term at the time, and remain a career woman . . . more
October 03, 2008 05:53 PM EDT -- Here are some photographs of my maternal grandfather, Jesse Orville Turner, and my younger brother, Roger. I brought the first two pictures to my dad's house a couple of year's ago to show . . . more
October 03, 2008 03:05 PM EDT -- I posted this once and the picture didn't work out right. When I went to edit, it wouldn't let me change to the new darker pic. So I just deleted the article and . . . more
May 09, 2008 07:51 PM EDT -- I do a lot of genealogy work for other people. I love finding long lost family members and solving genealogical puzzles. This is some genealogy work I did for my own family and involves a little history . . . more
May 10, 2008 02:50 PM EDT -- This is a story written first person from Grandma Alice's point of view. Like with all my Grandma Alice stories, the whole is taken from bits and pieces of letters and notes I found that . . . more
May 20, 2008 08:52 PM EDT -- I stopped by a local bookstore the other day to buy a copy of a magazine for a woman quoted in a monthly history column I write for a local publication. (If you want to read the story, click on the . . . more
August 06, 2008 07:36 AM EDT -- This is one of my favorite pictures in my vast collection of family history memorabilia that I inherited from my maternal grandmother, Alice Mack. It's a postcard really. It was never mailed and the . . . more
July 30, 2008 10:21 AM EDT -- Everybody has a story. I encounter that fact regularly as a professional freelance writer with a dozen years' experience. One day I may interview the head of a multi-million dollar company, the next . . . more
March 17, 2008 08:07 PM EDT -- I have in my possession a tintype (well, four of them really, but this story only pertains to one) of four women who have never been identified. The picture was given to me along with dozens of others . . . more
Anna rode an orphan train
by Kathy S.
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July 09, 2008 03:47 PM EDT -- Anna was my husband's grandmother.   She died back in 1988, long before any of us thought to ask her how she and her sister, Freda, became orphans or why Freda was adopted by a family in Missouri . . . more
March 25, 2008 08:14 PM EDT -- I've heard people say if you want to know what you're going to look like when you get older, just look at the generations that have passed before you. I certainly hope I don't get my genes . . . more
 
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