Category: Personal Family History Stories
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Interview Your Dead Relatives: Using Your Senses to Unlock Your Ancestors’ Stories
Exploring family history can extend beyond genealogy to amateur anthropology by using the senses to connect with ancestors’ lives—through touch, sight, hearing, smell, and…
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A Little Nostalgia About Grandparents
These are just some of the things I remember and some of the things I still get to enjoy about visiting my grandparents. It…
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A Titanic Connection
A family connection to history, detailing my great-grandpa Frank Bowers’ ownership of a book on the Titanic, their grandma meeting survivor Frank Goldsmith, and…
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Sly as a Fox
My great-grandmother Fox would ask about her husband’s parents, especially his father’s family but very short answers were given. “He was born in New York…
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The Tragedy of Michael Nevins: Part II
Tracing the Nevins family origins in England to their immigration on the S.S. Borderer to Boston, they faced hardships in America they were hoping…
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The Tragedy of Michael Nevins: Part I
Michael Nevins just vanished from family history four years after marrying Ellen and having a daughter—my great grandma. So what really happened to him?…
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The Paint Me House: Out of its Misery
The “Paint Me House” was an eyesore on Eastern Avenue. Neighbors pushed to demolish it, and it finally came down in 2013. Originally built…
