And it’s the best yet! See it here at Shades of the Departed.
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I was being lazy one evening and I decided to run some surnames in the Family History Library catalog. Nothing verfy exciting happened until I tried “Mischeaux.” This is what I got. This is the data for the family bible for the very family I’m researching! The film notes say: “Microfilm of manuscript collection (4 [...]
Paul Harvey Aurandt eventually overcame the murder of his father, a Tulsa police officer, when Paul was just a toddler. That murder spun off a series of bizarre incidents in the State of Oklahoma: A lynch mob demanded that the Tulsa County sheriff prove that the accused were not in the jail. They dispersed after [...]
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Taken Too Soon David Joseph Penny (1942-2007) Edna Mary Penny (1941-2008) Direct Descendants of George Micheau (1813-1907)
Even as he represented a kind of normalcy and stability, broadcasting legend Paul Harvey’s personal story was unusual. Murder, the Ku Klux Klan, perhaps a secret marriage, a grand jury probing the possible theft of atomic secrets–all of these things are part of the rest of Paul Harvey’s story. Paul Harvey Aurandt was born on [...]
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I’m traveling to a conferencce through Wednesday p.m., so our next Paul Harvey story will appear on Friday. Since I am traveling, I’ll also be researching for my other blog, The Watchdog’s Travelog, advice and tips especially for the disabled traveller.
In the dreary days of fall and winter in 1960s Albuquerque, I would hurry home from school at lunchtime and enter the warm house for a comforting sensory experience. The kitchen would smell of tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches. Dad would be sitting at the end of the table, he being home for work [...]
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