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Cousin was founded to learn from the past and
improve the family in many ways. Some measures are
education, standard of living, ethics, and more. The
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history with pictures.
Familycousin finds that each "Romantic Journey of
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Memories of Sellersville, Pa, written in
Bucks County Herald – February 2, 2006 friends
of Ralph Sr & Jr-
Heart and John Rufe.
Today we look at
Sellersville 50 years ago through the eyes of
two Bucks County Court of Common Pleas Judges,
William Hart Rufe III and his younger brother
John J. Rufe. Actually there are four siblings:
Hart, Elizabeth, John, and Robert, but my chat
was with the two judges.
Not
only does Sellersville play an important part of
their lives but so does Lafayette College. The
three sons are grads as are three of four of
Hart’s children. Their father, William, was
Sellersville’s Postmaster and their mother,
Frances, taught in the local schools. She was
bilingual…English and Pennsylvania German.
Hart
graduated from Sell-Perk High School (before the
Pennridge school district was created. Look at
how the population grew. Hart’s class of 1950
numbered 73. Seven years later, John graduated
with a class of 170 from Pennridge and Bob had
270 in his (’63).
Hart
recalled the Liberty Bell Trolley and rode it
both ways to Allentown and Norristown. It must
have been a thrill to roar down Cemetery
Hill…under the Reading Railroad bridge into
Perkasie, just before the Sellersville station.
“I remember riding the Reading to see
[Philadelphia] A’s and Phillies games,” Hart
began. “We always took in double headers…that
was how to get our money’s worth.”
“I
remember the summer days at the playground,” his
brother, John, told me. “Each day, I’d walk by
the [Walter Emerson] Baum house on the way
home.” John thought it was unusual to see the
famous artist painting winter scenes on hot,
humid days.
The
Sellersville playground [a few blocks from the
Washington House] was the key to summer activity
for the Rufes and all the town’s children. “Earl
Druckenmiller ran the play ground,” Hart
continued. “Earl owned ponies and a stable. We
had pony rides every day. “Lindy” was our
favorite pony. We played baseball, tennis, and
swam in the pool. Earl arranged pick up games
for us with teams from Perkasie, Lansdale and
Hatfield.”
It was
in scouts that Hart became a birder. Ralph
Waite Sr was his scoutmaster and a birder.
“We two were the only birders that we knew,”
Hart added. “In the spring during migration,
every morning at 6:30 we’d watch birds in the
parks. Once we counted 15 species of warblers in
90 minutes. Today, maybe we’ll see 15 species of
Warblers in a weekend.” Hart’s wife, Jewel, is a
birder also. “I’ve kept a life list [of birds],”
he said. “I’ve seen 754 different birds in North
America…over 2,000 world wide.”
After
17 years on the Bucks bench, Hart retired. “His
last official act was marrying my wife Cynthia
and me,” John said. Today, Hart is a mediator
and Senior Judge in Lehigh and Northampton
Counties.
It’s natural that
his love of open space steered him toward the
Heritage Conservancy where he is its Chairman,
having served on its board from 1974 to the
present.
John was a
photographer for the News Herald in his senior
year at Pennridge. “I was sports oriented,” he
said. “I remember John Landy and Roger Bannister
breaking the four minute mile in the same race
[won by Bannister]…it was perceived to be an
impenetrable barrier. Landy led the entire way,
but Bannister won with his famous finishing kick
(3:58.8).” What a memory, John!
It pays dividends
to have judges in the family. When their niece,
Jill Jackson, was married, three Judge Rufes
performed the ceremony: Hart, John, and John’s
wife [Cynthia] a federal judge.
written by Charles
Meredith
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DOYLESTOWN -- As a
standing-room-only crowd filled Courtroom 1 of
the Bucks County Courthouse Dec. 17, retiring
Court of Common Pleas Judge John J. Rufe was
feted by an array of family, judicial colleagues
and well-wishers. The event also featured the
unveiling of Judge Rufe’s official county
portrait, which will hang in the courthouse as a
lasting tribute to his public service.
Sharing stories of Judge Rufe’s distinguished
career on the bench were his older brother,
Judge William Hart Rufe, criminal defense
attorney Louis Busico, Court of Common Pleas
Judge Albert Cepparulo and his wife, the Hon.
Cynthia Rufe. Unveiling the portrait were
members of Judge Rufe’s family – including his
children and grandchildren.
Judge John Rufe spoke of his youthful adulation
of his brother, of his gratitude for being a
member of the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas
and his love for his family and colleagues.
Bucks County President Judge Susan Devlin Scott
emceed the event, adding that Judge Rufe has
been asked to continue his county service as a
senior judge.
Judge Rufe was also honored with commendations
and proclamations from Pennsylvania Gov. Ed
Rendell, State Supreme Court Chief Justice
Ronald Castille and by Bucks County
Commissioners Charles Martin, chairman; James
Cawley and Diane Ellis-Marseglia.
In the words of the commissioners’ commendation:
“Throughout your career, you have been widely
recognized for sensitive and thoughtful
adjudication in the field of child custody
litigation. You also have authored landmark
decisions on the subject of open space
preservation zoning. Your reputation for
civility, even temperament, courtesy and
rectitude has been a constant, both on and off
the bench. On this memorable occasion, we extend
our appreciation of your enormous contributions
to the Bucks County community.”
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The Ancestry journey start
with a romantic attraction
Nature in life,
find the hummingbird seeking
a flower to draw out the
nectar from within. The hummer seeks exploration of new
flowers to renew itself - not romance. Our ancestors
each had a
mating with romantic attraction. Their family
relationship was built based on a forming of a bond with a
soul mate. But in some cases there were several
marriages. Some were due to a death others were due
to new renewal mating attraction.
It may have been a way of renewing their soul.
However, it all started
with an instant of personal explicit romance.
We have some direct and documented examples of
how this romantic attraction can be used for
building a tree full of family cousins. The dna is
the engine and the soul is the fuel of the mind.
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DNA link raise new
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Richard W. Wilson and Dora Wilson
 
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Fred B Waite
b.1868 Adams, Jefferson Co., NY
d.1941 Flushing, Queens Co., NY |
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Earle Chester Waite
b.1889 Adams Center, NY
d.1987 Bethlehem, PA |
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Isadora Wilson
b.1865 Camden, Oneida Co., NY
d.1922 St. Luke's Hospital, PA |
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Ralph Dexter Waite
b.1915 Allentown, Lehigh Co., PA
d.1980 Grand View Hospital, PA |
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John Dexter Osborn
b.1849 Depauville, Jefferson Co., NY
d.1935 Sandy Creek, Oswego Co., NY |
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Bessie Irene Osborn
b.1893 Sandy Creek, Oswego Co., NY
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Elizabeth Massey
b.1868 MI
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Ralph Dexter Waite
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Edward Mackway
b.1842 NY
d.1915 Chicago, Cook Co., IL |
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Harold Jessup Mackway
b.1875 Chicago, Cook Co., IL
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Louise Jessup Newton
b.1844 AL
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Naomi Florence Mackway
b.1917 Hilltown Twp., Bucks Co., PA
d.1997 Grand View Hospital, PA |
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Philip Weinbauer
b.1828 Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany
d.1917 Maywood Village, IL |
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Louise Rosina Weinbauer
b.1877 Maywood Village, IL
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Johanna Kline
b.1839 Prussia, Germany
d.1914 435 South 11th Ave., IL |
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Family Group
Husband
Fred B Waite
   
Born: 21 FEB 1868 - Adams, Jefferson Co., NY
Marr: 28 JAN 1888 - Home of Isadora, Adams,
Jefferson Co., NY
Died: 24 FEB 1941 - Flushing, Queens Co., NY
Father:
George W Waite
Mother:
Anna Beyerle
Other Spouses:
Wife
Isadora Wilson
Born: 10 SEP 1865 - Camden, Oneida Co., NY
Died: 18 JUL 1922 - St. Luke's Hospital,
Fountain Hill, Lehigh Co., PA
Father:
John E Wilson
Mother:
Harriet Hannah Daniels
Other Spouses:
Children
1.
Earle Chester Waite
Born: 7 JUN 1889 - Adams Center, Jefferson
Co., NY
Marr: 1911 - Bessie Irene Osborn (other
spouses)
Died: 20 AUG 1987 - Bethlehem, Northampton
Co., PA
2.
Frederick Howard Waite
Born: 9 AUG 1891 - Syracuse, Onondaga Co., NY
Marr: 1914 - Octavi M Worden
Died: 12 FEB 1966 -
3.
Agnes Harriet Waite
Born: 15 MAR 1903 - Adams, Jefferson Co., NY
Marr: 1926 - Oscar Henry Hoppe
Died: 24 JUN 1929 - Flushing, Queens Co., NY
*********************************DNA comments &
research
In comparing
12
markers, the probability that Mr. Richard W
Wilson and Mr. Ralph Dexter Waite
Jr. shared a common ancestor within the
last...
Comparison Chart
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33.57% |
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55.88% |
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70.69% |
| 16 |
80.53% |
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87.07% |
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91.41% |
Refine your results with paper trail input
However, these results can be refined if their paper
trail indicates that no common ancestor between Mr.
Richard W Wilson and Mr. Ralph Dexter Waite Jr.
could have lived in a certain number of past
generations.
If you don't know this information for a fact, do not
change the "1" in the box in the next paragraph.
However, if you have the information, please enter in
the box and click on the recalculate button.
Mr. Richard W Wilson and Mr. Ralph Dexter
Waite Jr. did not share a common ancestor in the
last generation(s). (Because the important factor in
calculating the time to the Most Recent Common Ancestor
is the number of generations between which mutations
could take place, the number of years per generation is
irrelevant in FTDNATiP™ calculations.).
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New Waite family puzzle to
investigate.
According to Family Tree DNA Ralph and
Leon Waite are two of my closest genetic matches in the
entire FTDNA database. I had over 600 matches at 12
markers, but according to FTDNA it is due to my very
common projected R1b1b2 haplotype. I ordered an upgrade
to try and filter out those results not close to me, and
hoping some of the folks whom already had a 25 or 37
marker test done and where on my 12 marker match would
come back as an even closer match at either 25 or 37.
To my surprise, only 2 people in the entire database
came back as a close match -- you and another person
that share the same name. I'm writing to see if there
may be anything to it.
Is there a tradition in your family of migration to
either Israel or Mexico? Is there a name in your family
history that is Dawer or similar to it? Or perhaps Dayan
or Kaplan? Or any history of Jewish heritage anywhere
in your family tree? If any of those are true then
perhaps there is some long lost connection.
Levi Herrera-Lopez USA
Records show Leon Masters Waite
Jr, 4 FEB 1907 - ABT AUG 1978 Index
Burial:
Date: AFT AUG 1978
Place: Mobile, Mobile Co., AL
Individual Note:
Was manager of the Battle House Hotel in
Mobile, AL. Was manager of the Atlantan Hotel in
Atlanta, GA. Was manager of the DuPont Plaza Hotel
in Miami, FL. Was manager of a hotel in San Juan,
Puerto Rico.
Lived at 27 Magnolia Ave., 8th Ward, Daytona,
Volusia Co., FL in 1920. Lived in Jackson, Madison
Co., TN in 1936.
Well we assume dna cannot be wrong so you must have
a link. I find from search history our romantic
ancestors were travelers and may have had many
casual or close personal contacts. People often do
not suspect this role in making families.
But as a
familycousin.com search effort we suspect everything
is possible.
Ralph
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Texas Chili and
Dylan's Thunder Mountain - seekers of the nectar
hummers never get to taste |
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There are positive role models within each
generation who pass on the legacy dna & soul to
their kids. |
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Alden and Jennifer,
Deborah and Bud
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Kelsey, ?, Kate, Ashley,
Jenn, Nate : Grandkids
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Naomi & Marilyn Waite &
Louise Weinbauer |
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Naomi & Ralph Waite Sr,
Ralph Sr, Jennifer, Deborah and Doug |
 The Last Lion of
the
Alhambra tells the story of a small boy who lives in the ancient castle built by the Moors in the ninth century AD. Only when one of the stone lions that surrounds a fountain comes to life does the boy learn that memory is the greatest treasure of the castle.
by Douglas
Scott Waite of New York who is a doctor, poet, author,
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The lure of a Religious Missionary Journey
must be an adventure, since it had a
romantic attraction with its idealistic purpose
and caused some young women to join. All that
was needed were the Church teaching and bible
training environment with tools for this
missionary story to be told. The teacher became
the ambassador for the imaginary journey.
Harold Mackway Sr brain weakness may have been
the requiring of self esteem
renewal by romancing these women. He had the
brain/soul which had the motive and he created
the opportunity. The documents show he wanted to
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 AnnMarie's question: How did Harold Sr
private documents get into the attic boxes of
another family?
Familycousin received an email 2/23/10 where
someone who found some documents which mentioned
Harold Mackway Sr. Two documents are from
Chicago and one from Sellersville, Pa. The Sellersville
document (October 1, 1940) is from missionary Niels Jacobsen from China.
The Chicago pictures in these documents show
perhaps his first wife Anna and their three
children. The Rev Ralph Weitz Jr's father and
step-mother lived in Quakertown & Sellersville.
His documents have been sent to us for
familycousin posting here and AnnMarie review..
Ann
Marie is the familycousin historian on Mackway.
she came by it honestly since her father was
Harold Jr, but she has really earned the role
with brains and memory. Must be the Sullivan
combined with the Scottish/German DNA in her
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Harold Sr born 1875 and found he had the brains and
power of speech to lead others. So he became a minister but
we assume his training came from apprenticeship
in the Lutheran Church in Chicago, He married a
Scottish woman Anna W. in 1899 and had three
children. He left Anna and married Louise in
1907. Was Louise's
minister, convinced her to run off with him to
be missionaries. His divorce from his first wife
was in the Chicago Sun Times.. We found letter to Rev
Harold Mackway and Christian Fellowship
Sellersville, Pa, dated October 1,
1940 from Niels
Jacobsen Missionary in China.
This letter and date confirms that Harold
used church work later in Sellersville. But
how did
another family come to hold these two pictures
and his missionary docs? What was his
ministry role between the Chicago 1910 trip and
the 1940 letters? His work was varied and he
never materially did much to support the new
Sellersville family. He was not a businessman
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Harold Mackway Sr pictures
We speculate that
Harold went back to Chicago 1909-10 and had
these portraits taken. He was concluding the
divorce from Anna. Grandson Ralph had little
contact with him even though he lived just
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Harold Sr,
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Osborn Clan has proven to be a stable family environment |
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The opportunity to
contact and find cousins within the global internet
is exciting. The use of DNA however I find the given
information a challenge when DNA matches are found.
The names range in variety with each email I find do
not produce results. So the random browser search by
many lead to good contacts. Ancestry.com is very
helpful. The posting on family boards always gets
interesting results. Actually I found my two Osborn
cousins that way. Their eBooks are in cousin links
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The Osborn Clan is a
very close family with long term soul mate
relationships with many cousins.
Maybe it is the Blacksmith work ethic but the family
is critical to this clan 's ancestry,
John Dexter and Grace, Bess Irene, Dick and Gerry
Osborn can tell this story better then anyone.
See their eBook.
Sally (also called Sarah) Ann
Eldridge Osborn was the wife of Dexter Schuyler,
in Depauville,
NY. "Deck" was John Dexter first son born 5/5/1849.
See Dick Osborn family notes - under eBook diosbo.
Below is 1936 reunion of Osborn Clan - 4 years after
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Bess Osborn
was
Earle Chester Waite's Romantic Attraction
- she was his Love Story.
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Bess Irene Osborn died of cancer in 1932, Earle three marriages
never could recover/renew the loss.
Don, Ralph Sr, and Marion also felt her loss but their families
became
the legacy of Bess and
Earle's romance.
  
Don, Ralph Sr, Bess, Marion
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The Bess
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With romance they gave life to generations of Waites
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Waite Legacy: 3 Ralph Sr, 2 Don, 1Earle,
4 Ralph, 5 Douglas,
6 Ben and 7 Jason
8 Marion, 9 Deborah, 10 Jennifer, 11 Jennifer E, 12
Kelsey, 13 Ashley. 14 Nate, 15 Katie, 16 Doris, 17
Jim 18 Dan, 19 Don, 20 Michael, 21 Erin
Doug & Ralph Sr
Doug and Ralph Sr in Earle Waite's Sailboat Silver Birches
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Ancestry
passed DNA gives us our physical human body or
Temple and appearance characteristics. But then
God's "soul" is transferred to this Temple and
it is what makes us a unique individual. Soul
allows us to go well beyond this physical
Temple. The Soul may be the basis for attraction
and continues even after the Temple is aging.
This attraction renewal seems to continue even as
we get older - just like the hummer, we may seek
flowers to renew, but for our soul.
Ralph Jr 3/106/10 (select picture for
Phineas compare)
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Osborn Crest, Wee Dram, Anglo Saxon Mask, Waite
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Even Nature's
has Genealogy
We are digging for
current and ancestry folks
- searching like the flicker for
new stuff.
Cousin, will you help us, with new details, in this
family search?
Nature's male and female privately pursue
making life's renewal
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Family Events
The living values shown by our
cousins represent the inherent traditions
granted our family by our parents. We have an
obligation to pass it on to the next generation. We have new photos coming
from Jim Hall scanning his 35mm slides.
These have been placed in the Cousin Links
on Hall eBook
Marion
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This is an internet search for
family people from 1.Czech - Majer, 2. England -
Waite
w/dna, 2. England - Masters, 3. England -
Osborn w/dna,
4. Prussian - Keitz, 5. UK - Wilson,
Daniels,
6. England, Scotland - Mackway and more.
Select the Cousin eBooks to start or
the Flicker picture to go to Dexnow.com with
some Dylan, a creative link.
Our Tree
The search among surviving relatives is
still the preferred way to gain insight on
the past family history. Since most of us
have immigration ancestors we need to gain
relative links to the country of origin. In
some cases we are lucky to find a church
record or village person in the search. We
have taken dna samples in the Waite and
Osborn families. However the similar dna
samples do not often give us a contact of
information. So we go back to search engines
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Our hope
is that this website will foster
communications, like years ago at grandma's home
gathering feasts.
Today, we gather with blogs,
shared pictures, email postings and text messages.
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Welcome cousins'. I want to give you my gift
from a fellow cousin. Try the best 3 meat Texas Chili,
just go to
http://dexnow.com/recipes/ and make my recipe
now and see some sexy walking to Bob
Dylan's "Thunder Mountain".
Please allow me to share with you the
romantic reason I make hot chili. |
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See the gene
of Bess Irene Osborn in the my grand
daughters. Compare her likeness with the
prom pictures.
Grandchildren are
Amazing
Latest Wee
Dram Report continues house search in
Chicago maps for Vaillancourt Hawthorne
Place. After 1870
Chicago experienced a Great Fire and World
Fair becoming an opportunity for our
Mackway, Vaillancourt, Weinbauer families to
move there.
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Richard "Dick"
Osborn has expanded his "living Blacksmith
family eBook" with new experiences. go there
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Family Cousin is dedicated to opening all
doors to family and environmental issues for
the love of life.
There is nothing to be ashamed of in life.
Hide nothing from yesterday history and
today.
We are made by god and all we live and love
is acceptable in our nature.
Every Body is on loan as a temple from god
so we should treat it with reverence. |
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raise the Mystic Bridge
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Mystic Surrounding
Pleasures
Mystic River
Seaport CT.
We came by water to America and still love to sail..
The use of
dna in addition to ancestry.com for genealogy research
are basic starter kit tools today. It quickly broadens
with search engines of family beyond your expectations.
The domains names becomes means for active minds to
research and you are quickly joined by new found
cousins. Why Jefferson County in upstate New York was a
strong center for my family is not clear. Boston, New
York and Baltimore ports of entry were the starting
point for most new arrivals. Then they moved to Long
Island and Connecticut which already were more advanced.
Then upstate New York had jobs in railroads - plus town
jobs because of population growth. Family members often
followed earlier generations of family cousins who told
of the opportunity in the new land. Our story is not
unique on the internet but the family people are unique.
The family tree is filled with names and stories filled
with success and failures - we may never know. But we
keep digging over the bones and find more details
through new information that is provided by our newly
found cousins.
Seaport Lighthouse and sailing Mystic
River CT
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The
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Romantic Attractions |
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contribution a picture or a story about life. The
world is better because of you. |
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See Diary of Ralph Dexter Waite Sr - eBook "My two years in
Bethlehem and the Washington House in
Sellersville Pa."
ralphwaite.com site
07/29/2010
http://familycousin.com
mailto:ralphwaite@familycousin.com
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