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Page Forty-One I have two copies of a clipping about my dad, his promotion, and our family’s subsequent move to North Carolina. One was in my mom’s papers and the other was in my grandmother’s, probably sent to her...

A Holy Grail of genealogical research is immigration, that first ancestor’s name, date, place, family, proof of immigration. We want to know who that first immigrant was, who rose up one morning somewhere in the world, and said, “I...

Maps Show the History of Indian Territory, Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory, and the State of Oklahoma The Digital Collection of the Oklahoma State Libraries has a phenomenal collection of Oklahoma maps. These three maps from 1887, 1903 and...

A Baby’s First Birthday Party Recently, we attended a first birthday party, Henry’s baseball themed party. The adults had stashes of Oh Henry! and Baby Ruth candy bars, seemingly obvious choices, one for the child and one for the...

Yet Another Unlabeled Group Photograph hispering Hills Country Club was the site of the 15th Reunion of the Oklolona Class of 1950 held 19 June 1965. I know that, not because my parents went, ate, danced, and visited, but because...

St. James Episcopal Church, Riverton, Fremont Co., Wyoming This unidentified church photograph was floating loose in a photo album. In order for my dad to have taken a picture of this church, it had to be one that had...

his photograph is a school wide gathering, likely sometime between 1910 and 1920, of the first through eight grades in Jefferson Co., Kentucky. I think I recognize Herman Joseph Breitenstein Sr. in this photograph. Does anyone see any other...

Unidentified Photographs Can Still Be Useful Here is a professional 8 1/2 x 11 inch black and white photograph of an unidenified football team that was loose inside an old photograph album from the 1940s from rural Jefferson Co....

  Runaway Marriages Marriages have taken place in various northern South Carolina border counties for brides and grooms from Tennessee and North Carolina. Ancestry does not have a strong South Carolina marriage section, nothing comparable to their research sections...