Tag Archives: Family History

Uncovering the Faces of Deering High (Part 4):

Posted on May 9, 2025 by Don Taylor

In this latest post, I explore more remarkable portraits from a 19th-century Deering High School album, featuring students with surnames like Coffin, Johnson, Skillin, and Trufant. Could one of these individuals be your ancestor? Read more and help reconnect these faces with their families. Continue reading →

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Happy Anniversary, William M Sanford & Mary Electra Parsons

Posted on October 29, 2024 by Don Taylor

October 29by Don Taylor Today, I remember my third great-grandparents, William M Sanford & Mary Electra Parsons. They married 179 years ago, on October 29, 1845, in Michigan. They had seven children, including my 2nd great-grandmother, Marion Sanford. William was … Continue reading →

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Not a Real McCoy nor a “Real” Hatfield either.

Posted on April 5, 2016 by Don Taylor

I finally had a chance to get back to my Hatfield Project. The question my friend asked was her Hatfield family related to the infamous Hatfields of West Virginia/Kentucky fame. In previous work I had found that my friend’s great-grandfather was … Continue reading →

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Television in my family

Posted on December 13, 2015 by Don Taylor

Television in my family We did not have a television while I was growing up. I remember listening to the radio a lot when I was young. When I was in the second grade (1957), we lived in upstairs of … Continue reading →

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Memories of Sharon Huffman

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Don Taylor

Sharon Huffman (c 2009) [My first cousin, once removed, Sharon Marie (Larson) Huffman, recently passed away. Among her documents was one where she wrote of some of her memories regarding her grandparents, my great-grandparents Arthur Durwood and Mary Elizabeth (Manning) … Continue reading →

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