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A Brick Wall Revisited: Ten Hours, Seven Suspects, One Direction
The mystery of Clifford Max’s father has been one of my most stubborn brick wall revisited genealogy cases for years. Clifford was born June 18, 1929, to Myrtle…
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The Family Pattern I Didn’t See Until Now
The theme for Week 13 of the #52Ancestors challenge is “A Family Pattern.” I have been turning that phrase over since I first read it. Naming patterns are…
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Strong Women: What My Grandmothers Left Behind
I have always called it the “strong women” photo. It was taken three days after I was born: four generations of women in one frame. Even before I…
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My Childhood Home in Lynbrook, New York
My childhood home in Lynbrook, New York wasn’t the oldest house in my family’s story — that distinction belongs to the Brooklyn duplex my great-great-grandparents bought in 1905.…
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Litmanova Immigration: The Girl Who Followed Her Parents to America
In August 1901, a thirteen-year-old girl boarded a ship in Bremen, Germany, and crossed the Atlantic alone. She came from Litmanova, a mountain village in the Kingdom of…
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WWII POW Aftermath: The Haunting Collapse of a Promising Army Officer
In January 1940, Stephen Marcisak walked into a recruiting office in Fort Bliss, Texas, and enlisted in the Regular Army. Within two years, his commanding officer described him…
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