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52 Ancestors: Capt. Benjamin Morse Melcher #47

ByDeborah November 27, 2018

This week’s theme is “Thankful” Back in August, I went on vacation to mid-coast Maine. Every time I go, I am amazed by how much of my mother’s family history is intertwined in some of the small towns there. The little cottage that my great-great Aunt had built is about one hundred years old now…

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52 Ancestors: The Yankee Gale #16

ByDeborah April 24, 2018

This week’s theme (really last week’s theme) was “Storms.” I don’t have any family stories of storms at this time, though if I were to sit down with my ancestor Benjamin Morse Melcher’s ship log on microfilm, I’d probably find some mentioned. Instead, I’m going to write about a storm that came up in my…

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