June 14, 2006
I was working on some lateral branches of my family tree today and just discovered that I have a pair of third cousins named Patton and Rommel. I am very glad my dad didn’t do this to us (yeah, he just named us all Chris, so calls to our house went something like: May I [...]
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March 10, 2006
there is something to be said for giving children slightly more unique names. In my family tree research of a great-great-something aunt Charlotte Griffith, I found that she married a guy named Thomas Clark who died in 1863 in Arkansas. Since he was born in Indiana and they lived in Iowa, I’m guessing he died [...]
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