On my desk is a photo of my mother and me in the summer of 1993 when I was nine years old. The picture was taken while riding on my
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Giving a Voice to the Grief and Tragedy Experienced by Our Ancestors
This past fall, I traveled to Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia to see where my great-grandfather and his siblings were raised. In this small historic town nestled along the Potomac River
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Finding Family Healing Through Exploring Your Genealogy
It had something to do with a funeral—or so we were told. But within the documents buried away in the Library of Congress lay a much larger story as to
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