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Oct 19, 2014 •
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I've tried resizing and I still can NOT post a photo to attach to a journal entry. I have NO idea what is wrong and I've been able to do this before without a problem. Photo in Jpeg format.
Sep 23, 2014 •
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I found yet another family photo with no name or any comment about it. The only thing I can say for sure is it's off a Civil War soldier.
I suspect it might be my gggrandfather, William O Taylor of...
Apr 17, 2013 •
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Long ago, in another lifetime, people didn't instant message, text or email one another. We had to rely on the phone, which we thought was a wonderful thing - other than we couldn't afford to call lon...
Apr 2, 2013 •
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When I was a kid, I knew perfectly well who Aunt Veda and Aunt Vera were: My dad's older sisters. The problem was trying to figure out which one of those V names belonged to whom? Because it was too c...
Apr 1, 2013 •
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I always called them mom and dad. Others called them Marge and Russ. Mom's siblings called her Peg or Sis. To me, of course, their main name was simply mom and dad.
Both were born prior to the Grea...
Mar 30, 2013 •
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I have no stories of this side of the family. Why? Because my grandfather, August Eldenburg, ran away from the family farm in Missouri after they migrated here. He didn't want to be a farmer. He loved...
Mar 30, 2013 •
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My grandmother was born in Dundee Scotland in the last quarter of the 19th C. She would migrate to America with her mother, Jane Lamb, when she was still young. The reason we were told was because the...
Mar 28, 2013 •
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I'm hoping someone out there can help me solve a mystery that I've been trying to figure out for over 10 years now. It's a photo found among my parent's things after my dad died in 1998.
I know im...
Mar 26, 2013 •
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http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Foss-538
Mar 25, 2013 •
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For years, i had contact with a cousin, Richard Colbrath, who had done extensive research into the Foss family lines extending from Denmark to the arrival of my ancestor, Johann (John) Foss in the 160...