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Like most people who love family history, I love to visit cemeteries.  No where else can you stand in one place and have so many stories swirl around you.  I am drawn to the very old grave markers and the rows and rows of people who all died in the same year . . . […]

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I thought that I had read every book on our bookshelves and some books more than once.  As I put one book away, an old and worn book caught my attention.  I reached in and brought it out.  It was an old book and looked like it had been read and handled.  It had a […]