My maternal grandparents, Leonard Campbell and Ila Hamilton, were born in the bootheel of Missouri in the tiny town of…
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Flunkie Files
A Glimpse of an 1890’s Rural American Wedding
ANd PRESENT LIST While researching my Missouri Blackwell Family line I discovered a newspaper article detailing the wedding of Lavinia…
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A Secret Wedding
I grew up knowing that I was born on my maternal grandparents wedding anniversary, July 2. My grandparents, Ila and…
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Ancestral Wedding Photos
As our nineteenth wedding anniversary came and went this past summer I couldn’t help but reflect on the weddings that…
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Leave Room to Be Surprised
Back in the beginning of my research my main goal was to find out who my Grandpa’s dad was. It…
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Lawsuit Threads
When I first began researching my Gamache family line I was lucky to easily access lots of documents, information and…
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