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The Long-Forgotten Resourcefulness of My Goble Ancestors
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 22 – May 27 – June 21, 2024 Creativity The word creativity has a number of synonyms, the usual are...
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Jun 2, 20244 min read
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From Schooley to Smitty to Bud to Junie: The Quirky Nicknames Behind My Family's Common Surnames
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 21 – May 20th – May 26, 2024 Nickname Nicknames have been in constant use in my Allen family tree for well...
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May 24, 20245 min read
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Ink & Memory: How Preserving Family Documents and Heirlooms Weaves Rich Tapestry into Your Family History
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks May 6 -12, 2024 Preserve There are a number of ways that I could have written about this prompt. Canning...
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May 13, 20245 min read
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Unraveling the Past: The Intriguing Search about My Grandfather's Mystery First Marriage
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 18 – April 29 – May 5, 2024 Love and Marriage In thinking about this writing prompt there are many...
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May 7, 20244 min read
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"Band of Brothers: The McGhees' Union Army Journey Through the U.S. Civil War"
One of the first ancestors I researched when I began this journey of building my family tree was Isaac Ross McGhee, my paternal...
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Apr 27, 20247 min read
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Twisted Family Ties of My 2X Great-Grandmother
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 16 – April 15 -21, 2024 Step When I thought about the writing prompt of Step for this week I decided to...
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Apr 20, 20245 min read
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My Grandmother's Education in the Early 20th Century in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 15 – April 8 – 14, 2024 School Days As a former teacher, school principal, and school board member, I was...
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Apr 14, 20245 min read
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Mom's Simple Heirloom Recipe: A Taste of Tradition
52 Ancestors in 52 weeks Week 14 – April 1 -7, 2024 Favorite Recipe As a child in the 1950s who descended from a predominantly English...
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Apr 10, 20243 min read
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Uniting Faith and Family: The Leinbach Legacy within the Moravian Church of North Carolina
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 13 March 25 - March 31, 2024 Worship My Leinbach ancestors on my paternal side of my family tree came to...
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Mar 30, 20246 min read
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Forging Ahead: How My Ancestor Embraced Cutting-Edge Technology During WWII
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 12 – March 18 – 24, 2024 Technology It was 1941 and the war had come to the shores of the United States on...
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Mar 27, 20242 min read
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Have You Ever Worn Orange on St. Patrick's Day?
You may be living under a rock if you do not know what March 17th or St. Patrick’s Day represents in the United States during this day...
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Mar 16, 20244 min read
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Legacy Legends: Uniting Cultures Through Ancestral Achievements
this blog post centers on achievements of my maternal ancestor, Daniel Nimham, last sachem of the Wappinger people of the Hudson Valley, NY.
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Mar 15, 20243 min read
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The Secret Languages of Our Immigrant Ancestors
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 10 – March 4 – 10, 2024 Language My husband’s family, both on his maternal and paternal sides, were...
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Mar 8, 20242 min read
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What's in a Name?
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 9 – February 26th - March 3rd, 2024 Changing Names As names go my family tree has some quite common...
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Mar 2, 20244 min read
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Tiny Treasure, Big Legacy: Revealing the Story of My Cherished Family Heirloom
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 8 – February 19th – 25th Heirlooms I am lucky to have several heirlooms from my ancestors, a few from my...
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Feb 24, 20245 min read
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A Journey from Cornwall, England to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week Six – February 12 – 18, 2024 Immigration Since the United States is for the most part a country of...
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Feb 17, 20244 min read
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Miners, Miners, and More Miners
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week Six - February 5 - 11, 2024 Earning A Living Undoubtedly when I reflect upon the occupations of my...
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Feb 11, 20245 min read
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Influencers or Influenced?
Mayflower Passengers – Katharine White Leggatt (Leggett) Carver and John Carver Week Five – January 29 – February 4, 2024 Influencer...
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Feb 4, 20246 min read
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Daniel Goble's Dubious Distinction
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week Four – January 21 – January 27, 2024 Witness to History Daniel Goble – Prince Philip’s War 1676 As a...
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Jan 27, 20246 min read
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The Unspoken Difficulties of a Quiet Life
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week One – January 1 – 7, 2024 Family Lore Prompt Reginald Sidney Allen (left) and Joseph Smith Allen (right)...
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Jan 26, 20244 min read
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