Having gone down the rabbit hole that is ancestry.com over the last year I have accumulated a mountain of information about those that came before me. This is where all that information will be shared.
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The Franks of Kirchenkirnberg
Kate Frank, my 4x great grandmother was born one hundred and eighty years ago this November 29th, in the year 1845 in Kirchenkirnberg, what is now a neighborhood of the town of Murrhardt, in the Rems-Murr district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Her father, Gottlieb Frank was born in Kirchenkirnberg in 1802. Kirchenkirnberg was a part of……
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The Greenes of Rhode Island
My 9x great grandfather was once the Deputy Governor of Rhode Island colony, his great grandson went on to be the second governor of the state of Rhode Island, serving during the American Revolution, from 4 May 1778 to 3 May 1786. Deputy Governor John Greene was born 15 August 1620 in Salisbury County WIltshire……
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Clema Alberta Myers
My paternal grandmother died 39 years ago today, Nov 3 1986 at the age of just 62. She had fought cancer for several years prior to her death. Clema Alberta Myers Starr was the youngest child of Raymond Jasper Myers and Margaret Evelyn Thompson. Born 10 December 1923 in Danville, Illinois, her father Raymond abandoned……