{"id":86,"date":"2009-10-26T12:51:22","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T16:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/?p=86"},"modified":"2009-11-08T16:56:48","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T21:56:48","slug":"how-i-got-interested-in-genealogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/how-i-got-interested-in-genealogy\/","title":{"rendered":"How I got interested in genealogy"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Mary<\/a>
Mary Alice Dalton, tintype<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From the time I was very young, my mother would tell me that I looked like Cousin Alice when I pouted and talk about how Daisy (her nickname) would pout to get her own way.\u00a0 And then she would stick out her own lower lip to show me how I looked.\u00a0 There was an old picture, actually a tintype, of Cousin Alice as a little girl with her dog.\u00a0 I was intrigued by the clothing and hair.\u00a0 And I wanted to know more about her.\u00a0 Where was she now?\u00a0 Had I ever met her?\u00a0 Would she ever come visit us?\u00a0 Who were her parents?\u00a0 And on and on.\u00a0 My mother knew most of these answers and was happy to tell me. This was my father’s family and she had been trying to understand the complicated relationships for a long time.\u00a0 There were secrets, things that were never spoken of.\u00a0 And there was a pride in belonging to the Coffin family.\u00a0 While she didn’t talk about the secrets until I was much older, she did explain the relationships.<\/p>\n

There were also two very old photograph albums, with thick rigid pages with openings into which pictures had been slid.\u00a0 She knew who some of the people were but not all.\u00a0 And she could tell me stories about some of them.\u00a0 They were all part of the extended Coffin family in southwestern Ohio but some of them had actually gone and lived in Argentina for a long time.\u00a0 How exotic!\u00a0 For a little girl growing up in the middle of Indiana this was all intriguing.\u00a0 How could I not be interested?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the time I was very young, my mother would tell me that I looked like Cousin Alice when I pouted and talk about how Daisy (her nickname) would pout to get her own way.\u00a0 And then she would stick …<\/p>\n

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