In genealogy, there’s a lot of emphasis on the difference between KNOWing and knowing.
Take my 2nd-Great-Grandfather Patt O’Brien for example…
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Double Cousins
Remember that old commercial for Certs? Two. Two. Two mints in one. (You youngsters can watch it here.) Well, that’s sort of what happened to Dutch (Harold Seba Taylor, Sr) when it came to cousins. It went something like this…Read More »
It’s a long way from Denmark to Hooper…
Almost 4,500 miles, to be exact. My Great-Great-Grandpa Martin Martinsen made that journey twice (three times if you count the journey from Hooper back to Denmark). He was 42 when he first set sail, six years after his wife died. His seven children followed as soon as they could afford passage.
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