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ok you got me hooked, i can't stop reading.....
posted by
overtherainbow
on April 21, 2018 at 10:36 PM
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I find this to be a very interesting history.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on August 1, 2015 at 5:15 AM
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Great story (history)
Love the tie-ins to the explorers, and how much fun is it to have a known rogue blooming on the family tree. As for your Metis grandfather - I think we're all a bit mixed race when you come right down to brass tacks. I'm very happy to know there were members of "the people" in mine.
posted by
Pat_B
on August 1, 2015 at 5:05 AM
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Whether or not you can verify seems to me not to matter.. it's still an interesting story - and I'm not too sure that I can be sure about all my grandfather's tales, especially as filtered through my mother..haha.
posted by
mneme
on August 1, 2015 at 3:50 AM
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TAPS
Fascinating! Maybe John even met that famous Canadian Métis leader, Louis Riel...
posted by
Nautikos
on July 31, 2015 at 9:30 PM
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I have been lucky that several distant relativs of my generation have worked really hard on family trees and puting the stories together, My Sis has filled in a lot of blanks.
posted by
Kabu
on July 31, 2015 at 12:27 PM
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I am glad you are posting this. I love it. My mother's family were great family historians. I have been able to varify a ggggrandfather an Englishman who came to VA and married an English woman who was here in 1605. His name is the same as my great-great grandfather. I am looking forward to hearing more of your father's family stories.
posted by
Justi
on July 31, 2015 at 11:26 AM
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How lucky to be able to source this Taps. Strange really to think that only a couple or so generations back, is generally a blank space in our own history.
posted by
C_C_T
on July 31, 2015 at 11:21 AM
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