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The Eccard Family Tragedy Explained

One of the more outrageous family stories I share with my genealogy students is the double suicide of my 3rd great-grandparents, the Eccards, in 1915. I had used their tragic deaths as a way to illustrate how to be prepared

Jill M. January 4, 2019January 3, 2019 Drake, Drake family, Eccard, family history, genealogy, mysteries, newspaper clippings, Pickaway County, Uncategorized Read more

Preserving the Papers of Captain Richard Caldwell, Blooming Grove, NY

In October 2016, I visited the Moffat Library for part of my genealogy course program to examine historic manuscripts. The Moffat Library had in their vaults a collection of letters from the Caldwell family of Salisbury Mills. Shockingly, these handwritten

Jill M. March 29, 2017October 6, 2017 history, newspaper clippings, old records, research, Uncategorized Read more

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