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In the middle of reviewing my Stockford article before publishing it, I realized I goofed. At one point, I lamented that we had no DNA connections to the Stockford line, but I was wrong. I made a rookie mistake. Before ThruLinesTM, even before AncestryDNA®, I got into the habit of keeping separate little trees. My … Continue reading Middle – A Stockford DNA update
Here's a little gossip for the family. A little something I didn't know when I wrote Daniel's original article. He and Rosetta were married a year later than we thought. Daniel and Rosetta met through his involvement in the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR). Rosetta's second husband, George Crum, was a Civil War veteran … Continue reading Unexpected – The Old Man’s Secrets
I have written about Eleanor Cobe and a little about Kenneth W. Rhoades in Family in the Great War. I have now received a request to write more about Ken. I had already considered writing about Kenneth and Eleanor in an attempt to make this week’s writing topic about their wedding. But…I don’t know anything … Continue reading Weddings – Ken and Eleanor
As I have written before in Gypsies and Community Pillars, our Rhoades family were travelers. We had that wanderlust. One could say that all American's are a result of the wanderlust gene. But many, it seems, had a recessive gene that inspires them to take root. I did not inherit that gene, nor did my … Continue reading 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks – Travel
I have fallen back into the bad habit of missing some weeks. I had Service all queued up and ready to go on time...then I found out Ancestry had opened up international records for the month of May and just like that, I was distracted (I had a laundry list of foreign records I wanted … Continue reading 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks – Service
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