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2010 iGENE Awards…and the winner is…
Each year, the Academy of Genealogy and Family History (AGFH) offers genealogy bloggers the opportunity to celebrate the “best of the best” – our best blog posts for the previous year. After...
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Mom’s Greatest One-Hit Wonders
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. ~ Voltaire Growing up, I ate dinner with my entire family – mom and dad, my brother,...
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Praying With My Ancestors: The Stadtpfarrkirche
Two views of St. John the Baptist Church in Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm - from 1875 on the left and 1998 on the right. My family’s history in the town of Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm, Oberbayern, Bavaria,...
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Christmas: Then and Now
The theme for the 113th edition of the Carnival of Genealogy is: A Charles Dickens Christmas. In the spirit of Dickens, I was visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future… Christmas,...
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The Envelope, Please…2011 iGENE Awards!
Each year, the (nonexistent) Academy of Genealogy and Family History (AGFH) offers genealogy bloggers the opportunity to celebrate the “best of the best” – our best blog posts for the previous year....
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Time Travel to 1940
“One hour, okay?” He looked at me skeptically. “Then you have to come back to me. We have places to go!” “One hour – got it!” Wow, even time travel has restrictions. I turned on the machine and within...
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The Iceman Cometh
When it comes to business and commerce, my great-grandparents who immigrated to the United States in the early years of the 20th century spent their lives working for others whether it was in textile...
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A Great Discovery
Naturalization Certificate of Elizabeth Miller Pater, who was naturalized on December 13, 1954 at the age of 64. Of all the great discoveries I’ve made in over twenty years of genealogical research,...
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I Was a Teenage Car Thief
History: gossip well told. ~ Elbert Hubbard Partners in crime: Nancy and I, probably up to no good, at National Honor Society induction during junior year (fall, 1983). I was a teenage car thief. Or...
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On the Red Carpet…the 2012 iGENE Awards
Academy Award winning actor Timothy Hutton congratulates the author on her iGENE Awards. Each year the (nonexistent) Academy of Genealogy and Family History (AGFH) offers genealogy bloggers the...
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