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Friday, July 24, 2015

Friday's Faces From the Past: Happy Cousins Day!

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Today, July 24, is Cousins Day!  I have 23 wonderful first cousins, all on my dad's side of the family.  Here is a photo of many of th...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Tombstone Tuesday: Fordham Family, Maple Grove Cemetery, Wichita, Kansas

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photo by Kyle Abbott via FindAGrave.com ; used with permission A kind FindAGrave volunteer quickly got a photo for me of the tombstone...
Monday, July 13, 2015

Mystery Monday: What Happened to John Fordham?

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The  Dick Smith Library  (where I work) serves as a  Regional Historical Resources Depository  for original and microfilmed records for a n...
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Saturday, July 11, 2015

Sibling Saturday: In New Braunfels, ABT 1965

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A New Braunfels, Texas, native e-mailed me today about a post I did four years ago about our family's summers on the Comal River in N...
Friday, July 3, 2015

Friday's Faces From the Past: Louise Cheney Auer, 1905-1976

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Louise Cheney in the 1924 Trinity University Mirage yearbook, page 66 - available via http://lib.trinity.edu/lib2/dig_coll.php   Rece...
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Saturday, June 27, 2015

Surname Saturday: Shelton Family Reunion - MISSED! And a Blogging Hiatus

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My Shelton heritage, left to right:  GGG-grandfather Jacob Shelton (1822-1874), GG-grandfather Levi Marion Shelton (1863-1941), and a fou...
Sunday, June 21, 2015

Sentimental Sunday: Happy Father's Day! Dad, Mom, Karen, and Me, 1959

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Karen, Gerrie, Fred, and Amanda Pape, 1959, at 7913 Cedel, Houston, Texas © Amanda Pape - 2015 - click here to e-mail me.
Monday, June 15, 2015

Military Monday: DR Ahead - "Get That Drift Down to a Gnat's ___ !!!!"

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After my dad, Fred Pape, came back from Korea in March 1953, he was assigned back to Ellington Air Force Base in Houston to the 3605th Ob...
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

(Not-So-) Wordless Wednesday: Shelton Family Reunion on June 27!

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Mom's first cousin Edith Carole just e-mailed me to tell me the  Shelton  Family Reunion is going to be on Saturday, June 27, 2015,...
Friday, June 5, 2015

Friday's Faces From the Past: Fred Pape, Jim Bayes, and Forrest Hicks, April 1952

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Cropped from the Ellington Air Force Base Class 52-05 Navigator graduation photo , April 1952, from left:  my dad, Fred Pape; Jim Bayes ...