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Stories in this edition

• 1. MY 3X GREAT GRANDPA WILLIAM I. NEVIUS HAD 4 SONS WHO FOUGHT IN THE CIVIL WAR; TWO CAME HOME
• 2. WHAT ABOUT ANOTHER ANCESTOR, HENRY'S DAUGHTER EMMA NEVIUS MORGAN
• 3. OLD CARS ONLY GET FIFTEEN SECONDS OF FAME
• 4. MY DUTCH MINISTER ANCESTOR ENCOUNTERS THE TROPICS, PORTUGUESE CONQUERORS, SPANISH PIRATES, AND FRENCH MAN-O-WARS BEFORE ENDING UP IN NEW AMSTERDAM
• 5. FATHER AND SON ‘S 1642 RESIDENCE STILL SURVIVES
• 6. GENEALOGY AND ANCESTORS ONLY HAVE ONE “O”
• 7. WHAT ABOUT YOUR DESCENDANTS KNOWING ABOUT YOUR ANCESTORS?

Stories in this edition

• 1. AN URBAN MYTH LED TO SPENDING $20 BILLION OVER 25 YEARS
• 2. TWO EARLY AMERICAN MOTHER-DAUGHTER BUSINESSWOMEN WHOSE LEGACY INCLUDES THE NEW YORK YANKEES
• 3. AN 1829 JOURNEY ALONG THE NATCHEZ TRACE FROM MY WIFE'S ANCESTRY
• 4. MY GREAT GRANDPA WAS A WOODEN-LEGGED LOTHARIO
• 5. PRINCE AUGGIE SMITH, AN AMERICAN TOURIST, MINISTER, AND POTENTIAL SAINT
• 6. WHAT ABOUT YOUR DESCENDANTS KNOWING ABOUT YOUR ANCESTRY?

Stories in this edition

• 1. KATE THOMPSON SMUGGLED A $200,000 STOCK RECEIPT THROUGH UNION LINES
• 2. THE LEGACY OF THE PATRON SAINT OF TELEVISION, LIVED FROM 1194-1253. I WONDER HOW MANY CHANNELS THEY HAD BACK THEN?
• 3. SURPRISE, SOCIAL MEDIA RECIRCULATES LEGACY MATERIAL ON SLOW NEWS DAYS
• 4. THE LEGACY OF THE ANGEL OF LONG POINT
• 5. THE FATHER OF AMERICAN SURGERY AND THE LEGACY OF TWO FAMILIES OF FRANKLINS
• 6. WHAT ABOUT YOUR DESCENDANTS KNOWING YOUR LEGACY?

Stories in this edition

• 1. THE QUAKER ANTI-SLAVERY MIGRATION FROM THE SOUTHEAST TO THE NORTHWEST
• 2. SMITHSONIAN ACQUIRES 1846 DOLLEY MADISON DAGUERREOTYPE FOR $456,000
• 3. EATING LUNCH WHERE THE SECRET DISCUSSIONS FOR ENDING WORLD WAR II OCCURED
• 4. THE FORD V-8, CLYDE BARROW AND JOHN DILLINGER
• 5. DANCESTORS VISITED WILLIAM BYRD'S WESTOVER PLANTATION
• 6. WHAT ABOUT YOUR DESCENDANTS KNOWING ABOUT YOUR ANCESTORS?

Stories in this edition

• 1. MOTORING ON MICHIGAN HIGHWAY 185 IS IMPOSSIBLE
• 2. A GENEALOGIST VISITED THE SUN PARLOUR OF CANADA
• 3. AS GENEALOGISTS WOULD SAY "THE FATHER OF THE FATHER OF TEXAS", LEAD KING, AND BUSINESS FAILURE
• 4. THE NOT SO NATIVE AMERICANS
• 5. GENEALOGISTS EXPLORE CONFEDERATES ON THE GREAT LAKES
• 6. WHAT ABOUT YOUR DESCENDANTS KNOWING ABOUT YOUR ANCESTORS?

Stories in this edition

• 1. HAVE YOU EVER GONE CEMETERY HUNTING?
• 2. A GUY NAMED BRICK WHO MADE BRICKS, AND HOW HIS MILLIONS WENT TO CHARITY
• 3. A COUPLE OF INTERESTING THINGS WE SAW AT THE BENJAMIN HARRISON PRESIDENTIAL SITE
• 4. THE MYSTERY OF THE SILVER TEAPOT
• 5. DID YOUR ANCESTOR HAVE A MEMORIAL WINDOW IN THE CHURCH?
• 6. WHAT ABOUT YOUR DESCENDANTS KNOWING ABOUT YOUR ANCESTORS?

Stories in this edition

• 1. THE ROSE OF LONG ISLAND AND HER HERITAGE
• 2. DOLLEY MADISON’S DAGUERROTYPE GOES UP FOR SALE AT SOTHEBY’S AS DOES OTHER ITEMS THAT ARE PART OF OUR HERITAGE
• 3. OKLAHOMA SUPREME COURT DISMISSES LAWSUIT OF TULSA MASSACRE SURVIVORS
• 4. MACKINAC IS ALWAYS PRONOUNCED "MACKINAW" UNLESS YOU ARE IN MACKINAC CITY, THAT IS SOME HERITAGE!
• 5. MAE WEST'S HOUSECAR
• 6. IS IT PART OF YOUR HERITAGE THAT YOUR SEVEN-YEAR-OLD ANCESTOR SIGN ONE OF THESE INDENTURES?
• 7. WHAT ABOUT YOUR HERITAGE AND KNOWING ABOUT YOUR ANCESTORS?

Stories in this edition

• 1. COULD YOU GET A PENSION FOR YOUR DESCENDANTS IF YOU HAD A JOB WITH NO SALARY?
• 2. AARON BURR PLAYING CUPID
• 3. THOMAS JEFFERSON AND THE HEMINGS DESCENDANTS
• 4. DESCENDANTS- BETWEEN THIS GUY AND BENEDICT ARNOLD, WE WERE FORTUNATE TO WIN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
• 5. A REVOLUTIONARY ERA FEMINIST
• 6. THE LAST CIVIL WAR PENSION TO A CIVIL WAR DESCENDANT WAS PAID IN 2020
• 7. WHAT ABOUT YOUR DESCENDANTS?