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06
Feb

Old Family Photos Fill My Imagination and Spark my Curiosity about Family History

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I adore this photograph of my Grandma Edna (middle), her mother Emma and her father Bernard from the 1920’s. Sadly my Great Grandpa Bernard died young in an accident on the rails where he worked. This photograph fills my imagination with curiosity about what it might have been like to live at the time. I […]

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05
Feb

An Old Photo of My Namesake, Margaret

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This is my favorite photo of grandma and namesake, Margaret. She was 17; the year was 1937. It was most likely taken somewhere in Canada on one of her trips to visit her grandma’s farm. When I was little, she used to read me the letters her grandma sent her and this photo always reminds […]

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