It turns out that finding pictures, and therefore visual confirmation of beard vs clean shaven, wasn’t easy.  There are more male (and female too) relatives that I don’t have an identified pictures of than I had thought.  To start with …

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I was raised in the middle of Indiana until high school, and so I learned about basketball and to like it as a sport.  Basketball was a big school sport, followed by the students enthusiastically.  When Sports came up as the …

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There are many reasons we travel and our ancestors traveled.  I have traveled for work, for pleasure (vacation) and for other pleasure (genealogy research).  And of course I have moved my residence a number of times over the years, some …

Great-grandpa F.A. Traveled West – 52 Ancestors #28 Travel Read more »