Craig on September 10th, 2009

This was produced for the 17th edition of “Smile for the Camera”
I really don’t have much in the way of  photographs on my ancestors’ school days.   I have in the past posted school census records from the very early twentieth century in Milam County, Texas, where my gg-grandmother and her descendants lived.  But I know [...]

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Craig on November 24th, 2007

Thanksgiving is a great time to learn a little or a lot about one’s relatives and ancestors. Unexpected things may pop up. I gleaned a fair bit from our Thanksgiving conversations, most of which I’ll share after some further processing.
But one of the surprising bits was this: I asked my father if he recalled ever [...]

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