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• Gum Disease and Heart Disease – A Strong Connection

  
  Paternal Prose — Authority: 146
  Benjamin Franklin once quoted she laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth. We can now probably add and a healthy heart. Recent research studies have shown a striking association between poor dental hygiene and coronary heart disease. Coronary heart disease may be responsible for 20% of deaths ...
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• SET IN STONE?

  
  West in New England — Authority: 406
  Many genealogists , including myself, spend a lot of time in cemeteries. We hunt for dead relatives, either ours or someone elses to take pictures of gravestones sometimes in the hopes of finding missing birth or death dates on our family trees. But that information is not already correct. Case in point: Heres a ...
  2 days ago

• Searching for Private Daniel Commerford of Dundela

  
  PATRICK COMERFORD — Authority: 111
  Private Daniel Commerfords letter from the trenches in France to his Rector at home in Belfast (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2012) Patrick Comerford My friend and colleague, Dr Susan Hood of the Representative Church Body Library in Dublin, is trying to find any descendants of a Daniel Commerford who was a ...
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• Tips For Dealing with Obesity Prevention Is Your Best

  
  Weight Loss Tips — Authority: 104
  Tips For Dealing with Obesity Prevention Is Your Best Treatment Over the last 20 years obesity has become a serious problem for many people. There are often many reasons why this problem may occur. Some of the most common reasons…
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• An old photo of a box and the story it played in my familys history

  
  Chasing Ray — Authority: 105
  In 1924, when he was ten years old, my great uncle Thomas was nearly burned to death. Thomas and several of his friends were playing in a vacant lot down the street from their apartment building in the Bronx when they discovered this large discarded wooden box. According to my grandmother there were paint cans of some ...
  4 days ago

• An Extra Page From “Quaint Epitaphs,” by Safford

  
  Sea Genes Family History & Genealogy Research — Authority: 104
  The following epitaphs are from Susan Darling Safford’s Quaint Epitaphs, Fourth Edition (Boston: DeWolfe, Fiske & Co. 1902). This volume was originally copyright 1898 by S.D Safford. The book the included image is from is part of a private family collection. The handwriting is unknown to me, and due to the ...
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• 7 Layouts in 3 Hours: #5 Grammys Kitchen

  
  KISS AND TELL SCRAPBOOKING — Authority: 113
  I used a patterened paper with squares on the horizontal and put die cut circles into some of the squares.  Then I machine stitched over the circles mimicing the tea cup cabinet in my mother in laws kitchen, I made the page before choosing the photo or story so maybe the way those circles looked like plates in ...
  5 days ago

• Ancestry.com and Heritage Quest

  
  Manchester City Library — Authority: 99
  Who do you think you are? Find out by researching your family history! The New Hampshire Room at the Main Library is a treasure-trove of information for anyone hoping to track down long forgotten family members. The New Hampshire Room is a reference collection of materials of interest to the local historian and ...
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• Sunday’s Obituary: James Manning, Anchorage, Alaska Territory

  
  Sea Genes Family History & Genealogy Research — Authority: 104
  James Manning, A.R.R. Veteran, Passes Away Funeral Service To Be Held Tomorrow From Anchorage Funeral Parlors James Manning, dean of telegraph operators on the Alaska Railroad, deied at 4:15 o’clock yesterday afternoon at the Anchorage hospital, following a lingering illness. Mr. Manning was admitted to the hospital ...
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• Jennifer Gilmore: My Bridge to Nowhere

  
  Blogs — Authority: 147
  "We thought that once we decided on adoption, out of the ether, a child would appear. We were wrong." read more
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• Jennifer Gilmore: My Bridge to Nowhere

  
  Blogs — Authority: 147
  "We thought that once we decided on adoption, out of the ether, a child would appear. We were wrong." read more
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• Quebec Family History Society launches new website

  
  Olive Tree Genealogy Blog — Authority: 458
  This announcement came to Olive Tree Genealogy yesterday:MONTREAL, January 15, 2012 — The Quebec Family History Society (QFHS) is proud to announce the launch of its new website at www.qfhs.ca. Located at the same address as the genealogical society’s original site, the website features several new sections, such ...
  2 weeks ago

• January 17, and auspicious births

  
  Millard Fillmore's Bathtub — Authority: 507
  The First American, Ben Franklin, was born on this day in 1706 .  Exactly a century later, Thomas Jefferson’s daughter, Martha, bore James Madison Randolph, the first child born in the White House (fitting that Thomas Jefferson’s grandson would be named after James Madison, no?).  And in 1990, James Darrell ...
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• What is the legacy of a People?

  
  'On a flesh and bone foundation': An Irish History — Authority: 101
  LEGACY: legacy |ˈlegəsē|: noun ( pl. -cies) • a thing handed down by a predecessor. Origin: late Middle English; from Old French legacie, from medieval Latin legatia ‘legateship,’ from legatus ‘person delegated’. In the Oxford English dictionary, standing apart from the pronunciation and etymology of ...
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• Book Review: Struggles, Service & Smiles: The Autobiography of a Depression Era Kid by Robert B. Wiley, Lt. Col., USAF, Ret.

  
  All articles at Blogcritics — Authority: 699
  Struggles, Service & Smiles is a warm and uplifting autobiography.
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• Remembering Dr. King

  
  The Write Side of My Brain — Authority: 114
  The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. I have more thoughts on the legacy of Dr. King in my article at Richmond Bible Examiner:  Honoring Dr. King
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• 52 Weeks of Abundant Genealogy: Free Online Sources for Irish Family History and Genealogy

  
  'On a flesh and bone foundation': An Irish History — Authority: 101
  Despite budgetary constraints amid the financial meltdown that still plagues the island of my ancestors, when it comes to Irish genealogy sources available online, there is an ongoing effort to make available as many family history and genealogy resources as possible, and all  FREE of charge. A sincere THANK YOU ...
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• Visiting the Pastor Ancestral Home in Batangas City

  
  Life So Mundane — Authority: 104
  Sometimes, the most wondrous of God’s gifts are just hiding in plain sight. I was in Batangas City last weekend; and although my business itinerary did not originally include a guided tour, my host was hell-bent on giving me one. One simply does not say no to God’s graces.So thus, as a totally welcome bonus to ...
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• The Treason and Trial of Edward Gove

  
  Pat and Kathie — Authority: 79
  Sometimes in the course of researching family history a story arises that should be put down in our family collection of stories, and this is one. Londoner John Gove, a brazier (brass worker), sailed to Charlestown (now Boston) in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1647 with three children, John, Edward, and young ...
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• Odd: Family History For Sale, By a Stranger

  
  Mike's Musings — Authority: 106
  I was doing some idle family-name searching this weekend and came across a person on Etsy selling illustrations by my grandmother from a book published in 1929. This gorgeous double-sided plate features the work of the artist Isabel Cooper from specimens at the American Museum of Natural History. One side features ...
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