A Family Tapestry

Sunday, June 4, 2017

Progress Where Progress
Wasn't Expected

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Every two weeks, I check my progress on the four main family trees I've been working on over the past several years. Basically, for eac...
Saturday, June 3, 2017

Now Indexing:
Cook County, Illinois, Death Records

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It's time to do my monthly indexing project. It's a small contribution each month, but I do it in the firm belief that a little bit...
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Friday, June 2, 2017

A Fresh Start

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What can one do for a livelihood, after having been released from Federal Prison? Burley R. Chaney, now having the onus of adding a year...
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Thursday, June 1, 2017

Paying One's Debt to Society

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Newspapers have a way of playing up the action big, when uncertainty looms and there is still a threat present. When a crisis comes to its ...
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Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Wheels of Justice, Part Two

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While newspaper reports can take a drama-infused moment and convert it into dry, impartial recitation, don't think for a moment that th...
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Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Wheels of Justice, Part One

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There is no telling—at least from newspaper reports—what transpired in the new friendship between Arthur J. Daugherty and Burley R. Chaney...
Monday, May 29, 2017

Great Friends

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When the oldest son of Lewis James Daugherty and Nora Flowers was born, it was right in the middle of the year 1900. By the time young Arth...
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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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