Chocolate gravy … holopchi … taties … beaver tails. What do the foregoing have in common and how on earth could they be clues to your ancestry? At family gatherings, big or small, conversation usually gets around to “remember when…” and then the words that were common in your particular family begin to surface. These
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Think about it. When you meet someone, what is the first thing you do?  You’re right – you exchange names. How about your pet? I’ll bet it has a name. The city you live in, the grocery store where you shop – yes, everything has a name. Flowers, trees – everything. You may even have
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Wow! The technology to assist us in family history research is advancing like a tsunami.  I recently attended the Family History Expo at St. George, Utah and came away with my head crammed full of information. I really like the free Internet sites (makes my Scottish blood flow a wee bit faster) and following are
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Beware the ‘genealogy bug’! You know you have been bitten and are suffering the effects when you drive 200 miles just to crawl through a cemetery in the pouring rain. Peering through rain-spattered glasses at grave markers, you gently brush away the collected debris from names carved into the cold stone … looking … hoping
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