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Ancestry/Genealogy

Sherman A1

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1. Every family has some

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Mar 24, 2012, 03:33 AM

Mar 2012

thing or someone in their lineage that would today or then make them uncomfortable. I try to think of things in the context of the times and sometimes that helps to make sense, other times it does not.

My family has some folks in it that were less than forward thinking upstanding folks by today's standards or even the standards of their day. It's just the nature of things, we cannot change the past and I think that by learning what we can about our families we learn a bit about the world from which we developed.

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