Genealogy is all about making connections, often in a specific place.
Read More"Community Reconstitution" in Mount Enterprise
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The Path to Joy
Celebrating the simple, ordinary things in life may not always come naturally to us, but it can make us strong and give us joy.
Read MoreRecoloration
We choose symbols deliberately to help us advance the causes to which we feel called. And sometimes, we put symbols away. (8 May 2005)
Read MoreNames for Pricilla McFarland Harle/Hoyle Gridiger
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When a person cannot read or write, their name may appear with many different spellings -- not just because of recordkeepers' carelessness but because the individual simply doesn't know.
Read MoreEarly Black voters in Rusk County, Texas
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I am in awe of the neat but stylish hand of an Army captain who, in 1870, transcribed the registered voters of Rusk County, Texas, where some of my forebears lived.
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