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AncestorNews: Readers’ Memory Gardens Premium
Thanks to everyone who wrote about their memory gardens. I had no idea these "family" gardens were so popular. I hope these notes from readers give you as many ideas for memory gardens as they gave me. Renee' A Karas of Colorado wrote about how she plants flowers to...
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AncestorNews: Readers Respond on Family Mementos Premium
AncestorNews readers share stories of their own family heirlooms.
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AncestorNews: Readers’ Hometown Stories Premium
A few weeks ago, I wrote about my hometown, St. Joseph, Mo., and asked you to tell me what your special hometowns were and why. Several of you responded with tales of towns in your family histories. Thanks to Shannon Cooper who wrote about her favorite hometowns: "I really...
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AncestorNews: Readers’ Family Treasures Premium
Readers share stories about their family heirlooms.
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AncestorNews: Genealogy Collaboration Premium
Let the Web help you collaborate with others on your genealogical research.
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Everything’s Relative: Grandparents Anonymous Premium
While doing family research I was able to go only as far as my grandfather's parents' names, dates of birth, dates of death, etc. When I got as much information as I could on them, I wanted to get the names of their parents, and I decided if anybody knew...
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AncestorNews: Quilts and Published Genealogies Premium
Maybe someone has already written about your family—check these sites.
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AncestorNews: Mom’s Applesauce Cake Premium
I'm not much of a cook, but I do love to bake. And one of my favorite cakes is one my mother used to make around the holidays. It's an applesauce cake made in an angel food cake pan. The cake is dense, heavy, moist and yummy! In fact...
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AncestorNews: Genealogy Albums Premium
I know a lot has been written in the last year or so about the marriage of genealogy to scrapbooking. As a certified creative klutz, I've steered clear of doing much scrapbooking; however, a package created by my aunt changed that. Aunt Helen, my dad's sister, put together a...
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AncestorNews: Patience (Blast It!) Premium
For years, I tried without success to track down my great-great-grandfather, John Hendrickson. When I finally located his marriage records, I was sure that particular brick wall was obliterated. My hopes went even higher as I found information (thanks to my Internet cousin, Gene Bird) about John pioneering in...
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