History, Real Life, and Faith
Who even has a phone book anymore? Ancestry.com I just spent a Friday night turning the cyber-pages of the London phone book. It broke open a mystery I’ve been hunting for 18 months. Amazing. Tedious. Valuable. A short diversion to talk about names Listen, if like several of my ancestors, you marry a man named Smith (or are a Smith)…
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Remember the joy of learning to read?
Tourists would not be the first description that comes to mind about Biddy and Oswald Chambers. Yet, they traveled together often. They went with a purpose and worked, but occasionally took time off for some fun. (The photo in the graphic is the only silly one of Oswald I’ve seen.) Meeting They met on a boat, the SS Baltic, sailing from Liverpool…
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How a simple children’s book, The Five Little Monkeys, can change a child’s life.
Generous family members contributed to my research for Mrs. Oswald Chambers. Ancestry.com posts information from people all over the world. People upload their family histories and share their data, stories, and even photos. Their generosity made this researcher’s tasks much simpler. Uploading a family tree By simply uploading family trees, many genealogists provided me with the information I sought. Knowing a birthdate or…
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We visited the submarine museum in Pearl Harbor recently. For my young adult daughter, it was fun to see the boats. For me, it was like old home week as I saw many submarines I knew in person, fact and fiction. That’s what happens when you spend 20 years of your life linked to one submarine or another. The World…
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