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Archive for May 14th, 2008

Stories have filtered down through the family that my great-grandmother, Frances, was left on a doorstep as a baby. Her maiden name has been reported as Ogan - according to her husband’s, James House’s, application for invalid pension and her obituary - and Ogelvey - according to my dad and her son, (Alva) Lester House. [...]

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For the 48th Carnival of Genealogy the theme is: Mom, how’d you get so smart?  The challenge was to write about how Mom got so smart whether it was through book learning, self-study courses, or the school of hard knocks. 
My mother is primarily a very private person, and it took me three tries to write something [...]

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