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Tag: family history

A Wondrous New Word and What Followed

June 3, 2020 Randy Mills

It was in the grassless plot just outside our back door where we “played little” with our toy tractors and…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: family, family history

The Season of the Summer Plague: One Family’s Story

April 30, 2020 Andrea Turner

In the first week of September, in 1937, my father became an unexpected statistic, the state health department noting that…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: childhood disease, family history, polio

All the Candy and Ice-Cream You Could Ever Want

April 20, 2020 Randy Mills

Slipping through the door of Leonard Wilson’s General Store in the 1950s was to step into a place of community…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: family history, Keith Mills, mills general store

Twenty-Six Bones

March 10, 2020 Andrea Turner

There are 26 bones in the human foot (28 if you include the sesamoid bones at the base of the big toe). The Basic Book of Human Anatomy…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: family history, memoir, plane crash

That’s it! We’re going Home: The Story of my Family’s One and Only Vacation

February 21, 2020 Andrea Turner

Funny how seemingly unrelated events can connect into undeniable cause-effect scenarios that when looked back upon, seem nothing less than…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: family, family history, family vacation, national park, rushmore, vacation, yellowstone

The Newell Letters

March 18, 2019 Randy Mills

The Story of a Waltonville Boy, Jimmy Newell, who traveled to the Big City in 1906, as Told through Family…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: family, family history, geneology, illinois, Waltonville, Waltonville Illinois

On My Mother’s Birthday

December 3, 2018 Randy Mills

Today our sweet mother, Mary Alice Newell, would have been ninety-one. In the photo of her holding a small dog,…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: family, family history, mother, Newell

Dear Dad…

June 16, 2018 Randy Mills

I found this photo in Mary Frances’ worn brown scrapbook, the one filled with the letters you sent her when…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: dad, family, family history, father, fathers' day

Bound for the Admiralty Island on IndianaHistory.org

March 20, 2018 Randy Mills

In 2017, the journal, The Hoosier Genealogist: Connections, a magazine published by the Indiana Historical Society, began publishing a three…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: Admiralty Island, Connections, family history, IndianaHistory.org, Keith Mills, Naval Training, Navy, published article, The Hoosier Genealogist, The Hoosier Genealogist: Connections
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