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The Jolly Pilgrim
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The Ancestor Chest, Part 3 - Picture Analysis
One hundred and forty-three years of information about my family were contained in the Ancestor Chest. That’s the time between the oldest unambiguously dated document it contained (1867) and the year it
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The Ancestor Chest, Part 2
Blanche "Betty" Donnelly, my great aunt - c. 1935 - she made that dress herself Using a chest of photos of dead relatives to peer into the recent past was proving insightful. Following my initial
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Great Grandfather Don's 100-year-old Strongbox
When Mum and Dad died, the most interesting artefact they left us was the chest of old family photos and documents, accumulated across more than a century ("The Ancestor Chest"). I was carrying
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The Ancestor Chest
My mother once told me that you’re not a proper adult until both your parents are dead. Thanks, Mum. Could have done without that particular life opinion. Some years later, on Radio 4, someone wise stated
