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To: oh8eleven
Ancestry.Com is worth ten times what they charge for an annual subscription (~ $165).

I agree, and they're adding more records all the time, as various organizations digitize them. I was contacted through the site by a nice fellow whose wife and I have a mutual ancestor, and he's been in touch with the diocese at Harbour Grace, Newfoundland for years, hoping they'd make their records available. They just have, and he found that one of my pairs of greatgrandparents died of cholera on the trip from Newfoundland to Minnesota, leaving four children. So many sad stories from times when life was much harder than it is now.

31 posted on 05/14/2010 1:43:52 PM PDT by American Quilter (The Democrats are deliberately destroying America. They must be destroyed in turn.)
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To: American Quilter
he found that one of my pairs of greatgrandparents died of cholera on the trip from Newfoundland to Minnesota
Many sad stories. I discovered a 21 year old cousin who died Nov 1918 from the Spanish Flu ... the day after his one year old daughter died from the same disease.
61 posted on 05/14/2010 2:30:21 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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