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Gena Graddy is looking for a photograph of her Civil War ancestor William Joseph Taylor (1836 to 1895). She has a box of about a hundred unidentified tintypes and thinks one of them might be a picture of Taylor taken before the war. Graddy knows that Taylor was a married...
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Helen Kesinger owns a special family treasure. It's a photograph album with an inscription: "Atchison, KS, Sept. 30, 1877. Dear Louise! Accept this album as a token of kind remembrance of your true and affectionate grandmother, Wilhelmine Scherer." This token of affection from a grandmother to her granddaughter...
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You've found the record you're desperate for — too bad the old handwriting looks like chicken scratch. Here's your ticket to deciphering difficult documents.
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