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Who hasn't dreamed of visiting an ancestral village in Europe or Asia? I know I have. Wouldn't it be fun to walk the streets your ancestors walked, or actually stand in a house one of them built? Thanks to a book I found on my Shore family line, I...

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I've been a photo buff since I was a kid. I used my first 35mm camera on a trip to Alaska when I was 15. Since then I've owned a half-dozen or so good cameras and have always been the family's designated photographer. When digitals hit the scene, I...

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AncestorNews: For Sale Eileen Holt of Howard Lake, Minn., and Susan Dunlap of Perris, Calif., want to share their antique Valentine cards with you. To view the cards, visit https://www.familytreemagazine.com/ancestornews/current.html. Eileen Holt wrote: "I read your article last week. It prompted me to go get the...

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While searching for marriage records, I ran across a great source of free lookups on Ancestral Findings at www.ancestralfindings.com. This site offers free lookups of marriage, birth, death, immigration, land, military and census records in dozens of different resources. I immediately clicked on the marriage category and...

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I made the unfortunate discovery that I'm not quite as organized as I thought when my sister wanted to create a scrapbook page of our grandparents' wedding day. I knew Aunt Helen had sent me a copy of Grandma and Grandpa's wedding certificate, but it had arrived on a...

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Most of us think about using the Internet to find ancestors, not living family. However, some of the most heartfelt family stories I've heard of involve the reuniting of living family members. Families can lose track of one another through many circumstances. Sometimes death or divorce causes children to be...

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