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• Jonathan Blanchard and Hannah Chadwick of Canterbury, NH

  
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  beginnings Jonathan Blanchard was born in 1750 in Hollis, New Hampshire. His parents were Benjamin Blanchard Jr. and Keziah Hastings.  Amazingly he was a fourth generation American.  His 3 x great grandfather, Thomas Blanchard, brought his family to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1639. Keziahs ancestor Thomas ...
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• Benjamin Blanchard Jr. of Hollis and Canterbury, NH and his three wives

  
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  background  Benjamin was the son of Benjamin Sr. and his wife Mary Abbott Blanchard. He was born in Andover but moved with his father to Hollis New Hampshire by 1743. He managed to survive the "throat distemper" of 1739 which claimed the lives of 4 of his siblings and was one of four children, out of 12, that ...
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• Did you know Taylor Swift and Reba McEntire are cousins?… And more surprising celeb cousins…

  
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  They say there is a 7 degrees of seperation in the world and no more so than in Hollywood and celeb circles where famous families thrive and everyone can be linked within 7 moves through Kevin Bacon! However there may be more relation between these darlings than you realised. Lets take a look at some celebs that are ...
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• Something New, Something Old

  
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  “If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you’re related to them. It doesn’t mean that you’re going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA.” – Henry Louis Gates There’s been a bit of stuff happening with my Graham genealogy research lately, and I’ve just now found ...
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• What, Me Worry? Why Worrying Does More Harm Than Good

  
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  We all experience worry. We know that nagging feeling that something is wrong and the anxiety that it produces. Interestingly, thefreedictionary.com notes that “The ancestor of our word, Old English wyrgan, meant ‘to strangle.’ It was a small step from this meaning to the modern definitions ‘to cause to feel ...
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• Funny stories from around the world

  
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  Some more funny and random headlines from around the world: German flea circus hit by freeze : A flea circus in Germany has been scrambling to replace its performers after the entire troupe was wiped out by the freezing weather. Motown piano returns to Detroit : A grand piano used in the Motown Records studios is ...
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• Confirmed: 7 Million Year Old Skull Belonged To Oldest Human Ancestor

  
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  Cast of the Sahelanthropus tchadensis holotype cranium TM 266-01-060-1, dubbed Toumaï, in facio-lateral view. Image credit: Didier Descouens The skull fragments were discovered amongst the scorching sands of the Djurab Desert in Chad, Africa, in 2002. At that time, the anthropologists who discovered ‘Toumai’ ...
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• eIncarnations

  
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  By William Sims Bainbridge Cleora Emily Bainbridge was born 8 November 1868, and passed away on 14 April 1870. Her father was a clergyman, and her mother, Lucy Seaman Bainbridge, was director of the Woman’s Branch of the New York City Mission Society. In 1883, her father, William Folwell Bainbridge, imagined ...
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