Lost In Google Books

I’ve delved into Google Books since the first day they appeared on the web.   Knowing that the collection grows continually, I set aside time every month to cruise the byways of the site looking for new attractions and new rare book shops.  Window shopping never fails to result in a ’sale’ during these excursions.   I [...]

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I’ll Surround Them

I started looking for my ancestor, Thomas Farrar, in 1968 thinking that finding him and his lineage couldn’t be that hard.  That attitude was repeatedly slapped down .. hard .. over the next 36 years. 
You know the story in some form because you undoubtedly have ‘brick walls’ on your own pedigree chart.   We [...]

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My Friend – David Burgess – A Short Life

The other day, Roger Bell, President of Footnote told me about one of his friends who died at age eleven.
Tonight I remembered his story and thought about my own friend, David Burgess, who was killed along with his mother in an auto accident when he and I were five.
My memories of his last two hours [...]

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