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Matrilineal Monday: A Grandmother's Story Through Time

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  I think it started with the clock. Maybe she was trying to connect to me sooner, but until I began a cleaning ritual the other day with the coming of the cooler fall weather, I wasn't listening. Likely it's a ritual she herself participated in back in the day when she was more than spirit and had a body concerned with earthly things. My cleaning ritual actually started with another seasonal ritual I have developed over the years that keeps me connected to my ancestors. I enjoy changing out seasonal things in my home. Some main items that I change include salt and pepper shaker sets from my collection once a part of my grandmother's collection. Many of them have seasonal themes. But it is actually my great-grandmother who seems to be reaching out to me right now. I have an old cabinet that holds my sets. At one time I counted over seventy of them, but I have more now since I've continued to collect over the years. The old cabinet actually belonged to my friend'

Wordless Wednesday: A Scrapbook Memory

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FamilySearch.org Record Conundrum

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computer screenshot taken with camera phone 4/4/2020 at 9:22am https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X2K4-34Z   computer screenshot taken with camera phone 4/4/2020 at 9:37am https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X2K4-34Z   Above are two computer screenshots taken with my camera phone on April 4. The first one was taken at 9:22am, the second was taken at 9:37am after conducting the search with that name again. According to the link in the search box at the top, they are both the same link, yet the information within that record is different. Subsequently, every time I bring up that link, whether by pasting that specific URL in the search box or when I do a search on the website for "Stanley Janicki" and get that record hit, the link only comes up the same as the second one. I am extremely puzzled by this. To make matters more complicated, there is another entry from this same database that appears to be for the same man but with completely differe