Category: Adam
My father was an Adam. His father descended from Germans who settled in Ohio. His mother was Scotch-Irish with a touch of English and French Huguenot. Through her line I am related to many US presidents and have a direct ancestry to European nobility, including Charlemagne.
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GRANDMA AND SINCLAIR LEWIS
I was filing away some of my grandparents’ papers the other day when I spotted a short letter addressed to my grandmother, Cecile Belle Adam, in October 1940. It was a simple letter about missing a dinner engagement or similar and it made me start wondering why do we bother keeping such old correspondence. Then
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MASSACRE AT MYSTIC
Now that Thanksgiving is over and today is Native American Heritage Day let’s look at what happened after that peaceful gathering in Plymouth in 1621. During my early years of schooling in Wisconsin, I learned of how Native Americans welcomed new immigrants and taught them to plant corn and catch eel and thus survive in
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DAY 9. St Charles, Illinois
My grandfather was a Methodist minister and preached in Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Idaho, Washington and California. My dad was a deep sea diver and brought the family to Southern California and Alaska. My uncle Carl was a journalist and settled with his family near Chicago. Because of these geographic differences I never got too close
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MY SCOTS-IRISH KIN
St Patrick’s Day is over here in Australia and I didn’t celebrate but I could have. I’m only one eighth Irish but I think that still qualifies me for a green beer. My Irish ancestry is the most colourful part of my family tree and includes a bunch of rough and tumble Scots-Irish immigrants to
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