A Family Tapestry

Friday, June 20, 2025

With Patience and Persistence

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  Brick wall ancestors can languish there on the pedigree chart, their status unchanged for decades. It takes a lot to change that brick wal...
Thursday, June 19, 2025

The Other Side of the Family

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  Trying to piece together the story of an ancestor—especially a brick wall ancestor—can be challenging. Thankfully, in the case of my mothe...
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Sorting it All Out

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  Sometimes, names and dates and family recollections get so scrambled in a researcher's mind that the best way to sort it all out is to...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Back to TenMile Country Again

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  The Rinehart line from Greene County , Pennsylvania, is one of my mother-in-law's family lines that I have been working on for a very ...
Monday, June 16, 2025

Thomas Rinehart, Take Two—
And Simon, Too

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  It is evident, from the material I recently unearthed from a dusty box of old files, that there were two  individuals linked to that Rine...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Never Too Late for Spring Cleaning

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  Spring cleaning hadn't been foremost on my mind the other day, when my niece asked for a copy of a family document. She is working on ...
Saturday, June 14, 2025

Tracking Thomas Rinehart

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  Discovering the full listing of the names of Simon Rinehart's children , thanks to the court proceedings in which they were at odds w...
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Jacqi Stevens
It is my contention that, after a lifetime, one of the greatest needs people have is to be remembered. They want to know: have I made a difference? I write because I can't keep for myself the gifts others have entrusted to me. Through what I've already been given--though not forgetting those to whom I must pass this along--from family I receive my heritage; through family I leave a legacy. With family I weave a tapestry. These are my strands.
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