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    BARBARA - IN THREE PARTS (PART I)

    MAY 18, 2012 10:23PM

    By Rob Neukirch


    Topics: family history, bipolar illness, youth, siblings, catholic, families, suicide

    • 1 Ratings
    • 50 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    P(oem)-A-D(ay) n° 25

    APRIL 25, 2012 2:58PM

    By alfred booth


    Topics: dreams, poetry, family history

    • 1 Ratings
    • 96 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Are Genetic Disposition and Fear Related?

    APRIL 20, 2012 3:08PM

    By Julie Franklin


    Topics: why are we afraid of snakes, why are we afraid of spiders, why are we afraid, common fears of spiders, common fears of snakes, fears, genes, evolution, family, health, science, science health and evolution, science and family, genetic fear, gene fear, hereditary fears, hereditary fear, family history, genes and tech, using to technology to write our history, technology and evolution, sharkos foot, fear, evolution, evolution and fear, genes, fear of snakes, are genes related to fear, relating genes to fear, fear, genes, scary snakes, scary spiders

    • 29 Ratings
    • 498 Views
    • 34 Comments
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    Why I Write

    APRIL 20, 2012 10:58AM

    By jlsathre


    Topics: family history, writing, preserving memories

    • 3 Ratings
    • 282 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    When I Discovered I Am A Scotswoman

    NOVEMBER 11, 2011 4:30PM

    By Laura Wilkerson


    Topics: genealogy, hamilton, kentucky, maryland, legends, indian princess, native american, scotland, ireland, family history

    • 0 Ratings
    • 300 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    The Van Dusens of New Amsterdam

    JULY 23, 2011 9:10PM

    By Penkill


    Topics: genealogy, family history

    • 2 Ratings
    • 162 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    My Fake Family Tree

    JULY 22, 2011 10:03AM

    By Mark Van Aken Williams


    Topics: comedy, satire, family history, adoption, ancestry

    • 0 Ratings
    • 284 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    But we're English, aren't we?

    JULY 18, 2011 12:40PM

    By Penkill


    Topics: family history, genealogy

    • 1 Ratings
    • 185 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    October 17, 1749

    JULY 14, 2011 1:53PM

    By Penkill


    Topics: genealogy, family history, pennsylvania dutch, loyalists

    • 12 Ratings
    • 301 Views
    • 15 Comments
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    Grandma’s Tale, part 9: She Has a Baby and Another Loss

    JULY 8, 2011 9:40AM

    By AtHomePilgrim


    Topics: rickets doesn't seem right because i don't believe it's fatal, childhood, dreams of death, family pain, family tragedy, family history, memories, a long time ago, detroit, italian americans, early 1920s, grandfather, grandmother, death, birth, life

    • 13 Ratings
    • 352 Views
    • 16 Comments
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    Grandma’s Tale, part 7: She Marries and Suffers a Loss

    JUNE 30, 2011 7:16AM

    By AtHomePilgrim


    Topics: family history, love, grandparents, 1920s now, italian americans, marriage, weddings, overly impish friends, you call this a wedding night, you call this a honeymoon, life brings joys and tragedy, darkness, death, so there it happened

    • 14 Ratings
    • 375 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    Grandma’s Tale, part 2: She Tells the Truth and Sees a Snake

    JUNE 12, 2011 7:53AM

    By AtHomePilgrim


    Topics: and a bit with a snake or is it bits of snake, family conflict, character, accidents, guns, glimpse of another time and place, circa 1900, sicily, grandmother, history, family history

    • 11 Ratings
    • 404 Views
    • 16 Comments
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    Grandma's Tale, part 1: She Is Born and Is Spared by a Horse

    MAY 8, 2011 8:47AM

    By AtHomePilgrim


    Topics: family history, grandmother, grandma, mother's day, a long time ago and in a world far far away, village life, young love, death, life, parents, children, and an almond farm, sicily

    • 1 Ratings
    • 1158 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Family Photos: Girls and Women of the 1920s

    MARCH 21, 2011 8:31AM

    By Misrule


    Topics: 1920s, shoes, weddings, photography, family history

    • 32 Ratings
    • 820 Views
    • 42 Comments
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    Are you what you cook?

    FEBRUARY 17, 2011 4:08PM

    By Alysa Salzberg


    Topics: a horrible mozzarella pun for which i am truly sorry, family memories, family history, italian cuisine, waxing philosophical about meatballs, cooking, food

    • 31 Ratings
    • 754 Views
    • 37 Comments
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    Why Blog? Who cares Anyway?

    DECEMBER 20, 2010 5:50PM

    By toritto


    Topics: health, orphanage, epilepsy, family history, diary, family secrets, history, why blog, blogging, family

    • 0 Ratings
    • 200 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Mammograms Save Lives with Family History of Breast Cancer

    NOVEMBER 28, 2010 12:36PM

    By doctorwascher


    Topics: mammograms, breast cancer, family history, survival, mortality, prevention

    • 34 Ratings
    • 816 Views
    • 43 Comments
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    My story: Near Drowning and Reflection to why my life?

    SEPTEMBER 29, 2010 3:40AM

    By Tinkerertink69


    Topics: sadie and andrew were actually cool, the names are correct most of their stories are made up, family history, near death, belief/religion, while writing this computer locked up three times, strange things

    • Editor's Pick
    • 36 Ratings
    • 4524 Views
    • 55 Comments
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    Making A House More Than A Home

    AUGUST 12, 2010 5:44PM

    By Sally Swift


    Topics: made, make, open call, family photos everywhere, i'm not artistic but i know what i like, colors and textures and lots of them, design, home, personal photography, family history

    • 0 Ratings
    • 219 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    MOM

    JUNE 28, 2010 5:24PM

    By Bob Sloan


    Topics: old time music, family history, family, kentucky, appalachia, mother

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