Brothers and cousins after desecrating- decorating the bride's '68 Ford Mustang

[Video] My Mom & Dad’s 1976 Wedding

Your author is so very lucky that her first cousin once removed, the inimitable late Jesse Walter (JW) West, was so ahead of his time and took a lot of video footage in the late 60s through the 70s… including my parents’ wedding! I thought I would share this 90 second hidden gem here on

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How My Baby Sister Inadvertently Named My Genealogy Business

Last fall, the “situation” was hurtling violently toward “emergency.” I really needed a website for my genealogy business. I’d done a project with a local cemetery preservation committee and had a speaking engagement coming up with some opportunities for more. Now, I’d been self-employed for 18 years by that point. One of the lessons I

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