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Website Relaunch
I am excited to share with everyone that we are having a website relaunch and welcome you to send me a message so I can add you to our mailing list and also send you a free gift: 10 Steps to Organizing for the Busy Genealogist. This 2-page document will cover the very popular steps…
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52 Ancestors – Week 13 – 2025 – Home Sweet Home
52 Ancestors – WEEK 13 – Home Sweet Home By Cynthia Keefer Patton My son and his wife recently shopped for and bought a new house. They had been in the older one for almost thirteen years, and in that time frame I have moved and lived in 4 different houses. I moved not because…
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52 Ancestors – Week 10 – 2025 – SIBLINGS
52 Ancestors – WEEK 10 – Siblings By Cynthia Keefer Patton I come from a fairly large family–six children. Well today that is a large family, back then it was pretty normal. My brothers and sisters and I had a great time growing up together. There were 3 girls and 3 boys. The birth pattern…
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52 Ancestors – Week 7 – 2025 – Letters & Diaries
52 Ancestors – WEEK 7 – Letters & Diaries By Cynthia Keefer Patton We kept a family daily diary when my husband Shephard Patton, Sr. and I owned a farm and were building our life and family together. We called our place “Shady Oaks.” We started recording the diaries in 1983 and they were something…
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52 Ancestors – Week 1 -2025 – In the Beginning
52 Ancestors – WEEK 1 – In the Beginning By Cynthia Keefer Patton In the beginning of my genealogy journey my husband had just lost his mother and he wanted to search more diligently for her ancestors and his birthfather, that he had been estranged from since his was a baby. I sat by his…
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52 Ancestors – Week 52 – Resolution
52 Ancestors – WEEK 52 – Resolution By Cynthia Keefer Patton Here we are at the end of this year’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge. I feel good about my participation. I ended up posting 27 blogposts. I learned a lot. I cried a lot. I had to think twice about what I posted…
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52 Ancestors – Week 50 – Chosen Family
52 Ancestors – WEEK 50 – Chosen Family By Cynthia Keefer Patton I am the lucky, lucky mother of an adopted son. Our chosen family. When I tried for 10 years to conceive, but suffered two ectopic pregnancies, tubal repair surgery, and attempts at in-vitro, my late husband and I arrived at the conclusion that…
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52 Ancestors – Week 49- Handed Down
52 Ancestors – WEEK 49 – Handed Down By Cynthia Keefer Patton On of my favorite things to “hand down” are recipes. With each recipe comes a flood of memories. Who made it, where we ate it, what the house smelled like while it was cooking. My late husband Shephard H. Patton, Sr. loved to…
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52 Ancestors – Week 45 – Colorful
52 Ancestors – WEEK 45 – Colorful By Cynthia Keefer Patton We just returned from a wonderful trip to Ireland. A definite bucket list item, based on my ever-changing Irish heritage (currently at 18%, with Scotland jumping up to 34%). To say the least it is colorful! The hues of greens and blues actually hurt…
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52 Ancestors – Week 43 – Lost Contact
52 Ancestors – WEEK 43 – Lost Contact By Cynthia Keefer Patton All my life I remember my mother telling me about her baby brother Melvin. How she missed him. How she really didn’t get a lot of time living with him in their home because she married so young. How she wished he would…