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  • Connection Made 126 Years Later

    Connection Made 126 Years Later

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    Patricia Greber
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    It has been slow going for me to link a letter I found in my grandmother’s papers to living family members, but guess what? It has happened. Yesterday I logged onto Ancestry and on the home page, there is an interesting notification that shows up if someone edits a record you have saved to your…

  • The Brock Family of Hackney

    The Brock Family of Hackney

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    Patricia Greber
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    My connection to the Brock family was not an obvious one. It all started with a four-page letter written by a niece to her uncle in 1883. This letter must have been important as it was passed down through my family until I rediscovered it in 1993, one hundred and ten years after it was written.…