Category: genealogy
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Daily Prompt 3/17/23
What tattoo do you want and where would you put it? There’s several in the works in my mind. I already have 6 and I want a bunch more. Right now the one I am thinking about is the crest of Clan Kennedy from the Lowlands of Scotland. I have no idea where I want…
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Diana Part III
I have been dutifully trying to figure out what happened to my great-great grandmother for almost a year now. It’s not easy because she was never married to my great-great grandfather and I never knew my great grandfather. I’ve written about some of my saga with researching Diana here and here. Recently I found something…
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Genealogy Breakthrough
After months of frustration with the apparent loss of my great-great grandmother to the bowels of history, I think I found a group on Facebook that can help me figure out what happened to her! It’s a group dedicated to the county where she and a lot of my other relatives lived and worked. What…
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Generational Trauma
My dad and I are working on this relationship improving course from his church group. It’s been a challenge in a lot of ways and while we have had some improvements in our communication with each other, there are still things he just doesn’t want to hear. Today I brought up some of those things…
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We All Have Gifts!
I spent a lot of my life being average. Average height as a little kid. Average weight most years, sometimes really thin. Average grades. Average family. Average athletic ability. Average to maybe below average creativity. I was just solidly average in so many facets of life. At times I was higher than average at school,…