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What were they thinking?

Posted on June 21, 2012 by raquel
WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?Parents came up with some very peculiar names for their children, as the historical records attest. Some names seemed to be designed for grandiosity or high achievement. Others may have doomed their offspring to negative stigma, at least from our modern perspective. These are a few real names we have run across
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What do you really know about your ancestors? Surprising twists!

Posted on May 21, 2012 by raquel
We find such interesting stories in our family history research! Madison Stephenson lived in southern Indiana in 1850, with his wife Mary (Polly) Minnix, daughter of Jesse Minnix and Polly Henry from Franklin County, Virginia, and their four children: Susannah, Lucy, Owen and Caroline. But when Madison arrived in the area in the late 1830’s,
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What do you really know about your ancestors? DNA technology can help!

Posted on April 4, 2012 by raquel
Richard Carpenter (1920-2005) remembers a gathering of Carpenter family in his childhood days, in southern Indiana. An argument broke out among some of them, and his father snarled, “Well, I’m just going to change my name to Medlock, which is what it should be anyway!” The family legend that had been passed down through the
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