Tag: family
member name: Amy B.
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August 13, 2007 03:06 PM EDT --
I get the genealogy bug from time to time and do a little bit of research. I have a lot of information on my Mom's side of the family, going back to the mid-1600s, but my Dad's side is a bit harder . . .
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September 29, 2007 02:06 PM EDT --
For those of you who have done genealogy research, you know how exciting it can be to find a missing piece of information or to discover a new branch in the family tree. And you also know how hard it can . . .
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March 21, 2007 02:09 PM EDT --
What would you have done if you were an ordinary German citizen during World War II? Would you have risked your life to hide some Jews? Or turned them in? Would you have joined the Resistance? . . .
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April 04, 2007 05:17 PM EDT --
Back in 2002 I went out to Denver to visit my grandmother for her 104th birthday. Yes, I typed that right – she was over one hundred years old and still pretty spry and spunky. After my plane landed . . .
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April 11, 2007 09:31 PM EDT --
We called my grandmother "Toots" (pronounced like the first part of "Tootsie Roll") ever since my oldest brother was learning how to talk. The story is that every time my grandmother . . .
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June 09, 2007 04:47 PM EDT --
Not too long ago I read something that says we should think about what we want to be like when we're senior citizens and then start working on becoming that person today. That really made me start . . .
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November 17, 2007 10:50 AM EST --
The holidays are right around the corner and it's the one time of the year that I don't mind being in the kitchen, making some of the items that my grandmother and mother made and carrying on . . .
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May 28, 2007 09:17 AM EDT --
My ancestors are long-time residents of the Detroit area. In fact, one of my ancestors came to Detroit with Cadillac when it was first settled in 1701. Many of the descendants of the original Detroit . . .
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February 16, 2007 04:18 PM EST --
When I was four years old, my three older brothers (aged 15 to 18) had a slot car track that was quite large and complex with curves and long straighaways where you could really pick up speed. Sometimes, . . .
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April 28, 2007 10:48 AM EDT --
Mother's Day is fast approaching and I'm finding the holiday to be just as bittersweet as last year. It's been one year since we buried my mother and I can't help but miss her amidst . . .
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June 15, 2007 09:14 PM EDT --
There are several charities that allow you to sponsor a child through monthly donations. I have been sponsoring children through Compassion International for over twenty years now, beginning when I first . . .
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July 08, 2008 02:03 PM EDT --
A few weeks ago I posted an article about the medical family tree that I've started putting together as a result of my genealogy research. Well, I found out yesterday that this information may have . . .
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May 26, 2007 05:27 PM EDT --
Detroit gets a lot of bad press, but there are a lot of things to see and do in the area. Last year I finally went on one of the tour boats and we had a great time. Seeing the sights from the river also . . .
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November 11, 2007 09:06 PM EST --
I've been researching my Dad's side of the family tree for the past month or two. My father rarely spoke about his family and from what I can tell his generation didn't keep in touch with . . .
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March 12, 2007 10:03 AM EDT --
My father was always proud of being a Marine and serving in the South Pacific during WWII. One year my mother got him a really nice gold Marine Corps watch that he wore every day. When Dad died a few years . . .
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August 01, 2007 08:53 PM EDT --
Faith is my little feral kitty. Even though the shelter staff worked on her socialization, she's still pretty skittish and wary of people. She doesn't like to be held, disappears when strangers . . .
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January 25, 2007 09:02 PM EST --
I suspect that very few people can still drive by and see the home that their great-great grandparents built. And fewer still can see their family homestead converted into a museum so that . . .
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July 29, 2007 10:38 AM EDT --
This "behind the scenes" book about the cut flower trade was recommended to me by Scott Kunst, owner of Old House Gardens, to help get me through the long, cold, gray flower-less days of a typical . . .
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September 23, 2007 09:43 AM EDT --
I haven't been on Gather much lately because I've been sucked into another obsessin - family tree research. As anyone who has ever done any genealogy research knows, you can get sucked in rather . . .
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April 01, 2008 10:35 AM EDT --
I've been working on my father's side of the family tree and until recently I was stumped by a dead end. I knew, from an aunt's research that I inherited, that my grandfather had a cousin . . .
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