Category / Family History / Racism
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Settler thoughts on Ancestry
So I guess I understand our family road trips to cemeteries, and I am lucky that my dad did lots of genealogy for both sides of the family. But I still think ancestry.com and vast underground Mormon archives are creepy and weird. BACK TO BLOG
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Little Settler Buttercup
Let’s talk about my feet. They exited a white womb on March 4th 1976. I don’t think they came out feet first, but the right foot emerged with two tiny birthmarks on the bottom. My parents called them my stork bite. Over the past 4 decades my feet have moved into and out of…
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The Power Of The Pen
I find it hard to remember some of the shock and outrage I felt at the beginning of this research as I began to discover the way Treaties have been brokered and upheld in this county “to the prejudice of the Indians.” I discovered that Robert Colquhoun had done more than just sign the 1809…