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The Shallow Well Cemetery Project

The Shallow Well Cemetery Project

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The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) decided that a main road here in Sanford needs to be widened. Before…
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The Dickens Family Cemetery: FOUND

The Dickens Family Cemetery: FOUND

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Earlier this year I wrote about the challenge of searching for the Dickens Family Cemetery. If you didn’t read that…
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The Challenge of the Dickens Family Cemetery

The Challenge of the Dickens Family Cemetery

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The prompt this week for 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks is: Challenge. Here’s my challenge story. Are you familiar with…
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Why I’ve been quiet the past few weeks

Why I’ve been quiet the past few weeks

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I’ve been quiet the past few weeks, since right before Hurricane Florence began dropping buckets of rain on North and…
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The work of some of my ancestors: turpentine farming

The work of some of my ancestors: turpentine farming

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The prompt for 52 Ancestors this week is Work. Most my ancestors were farmers, stone masons, railroad laborers, and preachers….
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Same Name: Renatus x 5 or 6

Same Name: Renatus x 5 or 6

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The prompt for this week is: Same Name. I had a few choices like Mordecai and Daniel. Instead I chose…
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