Gene Notes

Some random and some not-so-random thoughts on family history.

Sunday, June 5, 2011

This IS the Face of Genealogy.





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Copyright 2011, ACK for Gene Notes

4 comments:

  1. Good for you, for responding to that twit at LA Weekly. So, who are they?

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  2. Our Great-great grandparents, Alexander Maitland and Mary Grieves Oliphant. Married March 4, 1865, the day of Lincoln's second inauguration. Not that they were Union supporters. He was a confederate sympathizer. Her father was not!

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  3. The white diamond keeps drawing my eye...
    an original designer detail? :-)
    A very nice picture.
    Regards,
    Theresa (Tangled Trees)

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  4. Theresa, this was right before the end of the civil war, so I am presuming she made do with an older gown and decorated it - maybe to hide something?

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