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New to genealogy in 2002. We are amazed at how much information came to us in the last Six months. We began with a letter which was sent to my husband's father in 1955. The letter was sent to him by a Genealogist who was seeking information about the descendants of Giles and Sarah Dodd White. Because Dad had no interest Genealogy research, he didn't reply to the letter.
When Dad passed away in 1957, my Mother-in-Law asked me if I was interested in keeping the letter. I took the letter and put it away with other important papers for safe-keeping. With our Family vacation in July of 2001 (which included our nine children, their spouses and our Grand-children)we had a grand time with 27 family members together for our first Family Reunion.
Our 50th High School Reunion was June 21, 2002 and it was like another family reunion. Seeing old friends who we went to school with us,(some from grade-school all the way to high-school) lit a spark to our interest in genealogy because so many of our class-mates are are doing the same things by also searching for their roots. Since then, we took a day-trip to Garland, Pa. to visit the grave-sites of my husband's Grand-parents, Great Grand-parents and also his Great-Great-Grand-parents, who were all deceased before he was born. We are, indeed on a very interesting journey into the past.
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