My Grandparents

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Monday, March 10, 2025

Amos Dye Outcast?

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Dear Grandfather Dye, Started this last year, and though I love the idea of writing about an ancestor each week, I've given up. Still, I...
Thursday, March 7, 2024

Finding more about Eliel Melton and Family using new tools at FamilySearch.org

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 Dear Grandparents, Yesterday was the 188th anniversary of the Battle of the Alamo. Our son-in-law Chris' 4th great uncle Eliel Melton w...
Sunday, August 13, 2023

Laurens Duyts - One of a 100 ancestors with an interesting life.

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Dear Grandparents, In October 2002, my siblings and I traveled to be with our mother (Betty (Werst) Cone) to commemorate the 10th anniversar...
Friday, March 10, 2023

Helen Louise (Werst) (Pearce) Caldwell 1928-2019

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Dear Grandparents, I started writing this post in March of 2020 and then COVID happened and all of our lives changed. I'm just getting ...
Friday, February 17, 2023

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Catch-up I'd like to Meet Simpson Barnes

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 Dear Grandparents, There are so many ancestors that I would like to meet, that it is a difficult task to select just one. Given that task, ...

Happy National Inventors Day! February 11, 2023

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Dear Granddaddy and Grandfather Allen, We're celebrating National Inventors' Day this weekend. Talk of inventions were standard duri...

Jeremiah Pratt marries Jennet Pratt February 16, 1790

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 Dear Grandparents, When family historians run across marriage records where each member of the couple's surname is the same, the first ...