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Remember... a family history blog: Gingerbread House Recipe and Template

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Remember. a family history blog. The distinction between the past, the present and the future is a stubbornly persistent illusion." Albert Einstein. Tuesday, November 8, 2011. Gingerbread House Recipe and Template. Combine in one bowl, all at once:. 2 3/4 cups flour. 1/4 t ground cloves (optional). 1/2 cup vegetable oil. 2/3 cup molasses (Buy at Sam's Club by the gallon. It's cheaper.). 1/3 cup brown sugar. 1/2 t cream of tartar. 1 lb /- confectioner's sugar. You get to make your own template. Add candy ...

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Remember... a family history blog: Lost in Time in Baltimore: Guest Post by Craig McBreen

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Remember. a family history blog. The distinction between the past, the present and the future is a stubbornly persistent illusion." Albert Einstein. Tuesday, February 28, 2012. Lost in Time in Baltimore: Guest Post by Craig McBreen. Instead of writing about my lineage and the clan on the deliriously crazy, Irish McBreen side, I thought I would focus on my mother's side of the family. Yes, I said Civil War era. This was the house where my mother grew up, as one of nine children. This is also the place whe...

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Remember... a family history blog: Surf Meets Turf

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Remember. a family history blog. The distinction between the past, the present and the future is a stubbornly persistent illusion." Albert Einstein. Tuesday, February 21, 2012. All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.". I've made the trip over the Cape Cod Canal many times. Three times it was to say goodbye through grief and tears and a touch of fear of the new adventure. ...He ow...

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Remember... a family history blog: What Are Friends For?

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Remember. a family history blog. The distinction between the past, the present and the future is a stubbornly persistent illusion." Albert Einstein. Friday, October 14, 2011. What Are Friends For? It's all your fault! I laughed. Jackie is so dramatic. But she got my attention. What did I do? One thirty in the morning! I was up until ONE THIRTY! And if my laptop battery hadn't died I'd have stayed up later! Okay I know I was asleep at 1:30 am. I'm never up that late. Finally I got to the bottom of her "co...

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Remember... a family history blog: My Family Files Box Instructions

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Remember. a family history blog. The distinction between the past, the present and the future is a stubbornly persistent illusion." Albert Einstein. Sunday, April 10, 2011. My Family Files Box Instructions. The quantity and prices are from Walmart products). Hanging file box with a lid ($12.). 5 Hanging files ( one box of 25 for under $5). 16 manila folders ( box of 50 for under $4). 5 generation markers for hanging files, and 16 family group markers for the finished binder). First hanging file: "Self".

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Remember... a family history blog: It Matters to This One

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Remember. a family history blog. The distinction between the past, the present and the future is a stubbornly persistent illusion." Albert Einstein. Wednesday, March 14, 2012. It Matters to This One. An old man was walking down the beach just before dawn. In the distance he saw a young man picking up stranded starfish and throwing them back into the sea. As the old man approached the younh man he asked, "Why do you spend so much energy doing what seems to be a waste of time? Original story by Loren Eisley.

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Remember... a family history blog: A Pearl of Great Price

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Remember. a family history blog. The distinction between the past, the present and the future is a stubbornly persistent illusion." Albert Einstein. Wednesday, December 21, 2011. A Pearl of Great Price. Hannah Earles, mother of 10 boys, five of whom had died by today in 1863, sits and waits and wonders with me. She is a great comfort, as are all of the women in my life. Some women are made for little boys. But that's not the worst of her mind-numbing stresses. Grief would turn her journey through the...

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Remember... a family history blog: Geocaching For the Dead?

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Remember. a family history blog. The distinction between the past, the present and the future is a stubbornly persistent illusion." Albert Einstein. Friday, September 16, 2011. Geocaching For the Dead? I've been thinking about visiting the cemeteries of all of my ancestors on a massive 'round-the-world tour. Wouldn't that be a blast? But this morning I found myself in a different rental car that my husband had brought home last night. I sat behind the wheel for the first time, familiarizing myself wi...

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Remember... a family history blog: You Can't Take It With You

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Remember. a family history blog. The distinction between the past, the present and the future is a stubbornly persistent illusion." Albert Einstein. Thursday, March 8, 2012. You Can't Take It With You. Where's the Chocolate factory? Did we pass it, yet? With the flag on top. See the clock? There it is Madeleine! For the next hour and a half some of us daydream about chocolate. How to get it and how to hide it. Me? I freeze it. Nobody else in my house eats frozen chocolate. I don't know about anyone else,...

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Remember... a family history blog: Lucy, Forever In the Sky With Diamonds

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Remember. a family history blog. The distinction between the past, the present and the future is a stubbornly persistent illusion." Albert Einstein. Friday, February 24, 2012. Lucy, Forever In the Sky With Diamonds. When I was young and full of hope, and dreamed how things would be,. Of how you'd brighten up my life, and how much you'd mean to me,. I thought of times still future bound, filling holes I never knew. Existed in this mother's heart, until I witnessed you. Then I looked up. And I believed n.