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New insight from old journals. Childhood mother loss and other fun stuff. The natural world. Chicago, Ozarks, Seattle. I'm writing a memoir, working title NEVER THE SAME: A Memoir of Early Loss and Resilience.
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Granny but not “a” granny (opens the original)
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My mother’s mother, Ara, called Granny by my generation, loved to work outside. She grew up on a farm by clear, cold springs and rivers. After she was married, she raised livestock on a small farm and tended a big garden. She had to work outside whether she liked to or not—but she really did. By the time I can remember her, she was retired and lived in a mobile home on a small rural property. She hauled field stones to form a foundation for her poured-concrete porch, where she liked to sit. She
Bushwhacking (opens the original)
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Digging Up the Ancestors, Part 3 (opens the original)
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Death certificates are among the most interesting documents I find in my Ancestry family tree research. I try to examine a person’s records in chronological order, trying to get acquainted. I’m sad when I’ve seen the birth, marriage, children, work, and residency records, and suddenly there’s the death record. Sometimes it’s just dates on Social Security records, or an obituary in a newspaper or Findagrave. When a death certificate is available, I’m both gratified and dismayed to realize that wi
Digging Up the Ancestors, Part 2 (opens the original)
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I’ve been methodically building my Ancestry family tree down into the present day, finding and verifying every findable person in each generation from my great-great-grandparents on down to my generation. I have about 4,300 people in my tree now, including 17 first cousins, 110 second cousins and 445 third cousins (and am not nearly finished with that layer), plus cousins in between (once removed, etc). (Cousins are in your same generation. Cousins removed are not. If you want that explained, as
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