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Barking Up the Wrong Tree
Ex-slave's Letter to Master
Virginia Woman Discovers Lost Family Photos at Antique Shop
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Barking Up the Wrong Tree

Subtitle: Do as I say, not as I have done.

I well remember the day that I lost about 100 ancestors. It could happen to you.

In my case, early in my genealogy endeavors, I was adding information about "new" ancestors in great haste. Well, they weren't really new; they had always been my ancestors, but their names were new to me in those days. I'd find a new ancestor, record his or her information, then move on and find the parents. In the early days of my genealogy searches, it was easy...

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Ex-slave's Letter to Master

Here is a fascinating view into the inhumanity of slavery. Jordan Anderson was a former slave who was freed from a Tennessee plantation by Union troops in 1864 and spent his remaining 40 years in Ohio. He lived quietly and likely would have been forgotten, if not for a remarkable letter to his former master published in a Cincinnati newspaper shortly after the Civil War.

Treasured as a social document, praised as a masterpiece of satire, Anderson's letter has been anthologized and...

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Virginia Woman Discovers Lost Family Photos at Antique Shop

Cathy Tyree was on the hunt for an old couch when she stumbled across something incredible at an antique shop in Richmond, Virginia. Tyree had been in the store for only 15 minutes when she discovered a lost picture of her deceased father among the glassware, furniture and old books.

When Tyree lost her home in a foreclosure a few years ago, her father's trunk -- filled with family photos -- was auctioned off. Now she scours antique stores in Richmond, hoping to find more photos of her...

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