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Glasier and Louisa

Posted in Family, Genealogy, tagged Genealogy, Glasier Edwards Prentis, Louisa Maria Sams, Prentis Family, Sams Family on 26 Apr 2009 | 2 Comments »

(A recent story addition to my Great-Grandparents Glasier and Louisa‘s pages on my online family tree.) Louisa and Glasier were my father’s paternal grandparents. I never knew them, but heard stories about them over the years from those who loved them. Louisa moved from Pennsylvania to Iowa with her very close family in 1867. On [...]

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“Just Gladys”

Posted in Family, Genealogy, tagged Genealogy, Gladys Tennant on 26 Apr 2009 | 1 Comment »

(A recent story addition to grandmother’s page on my online family tree.) By friends and adult relatives, my grandmother was always referred to by her middle name Gladys or by her nicknames “Glady” and “Ten,” which was short for her maiden name Tennant. Her tombstone bears the name Gladys and many mistakenly believe that was [...]

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“Just X.T.”

Posted in Family, Genealogy, tagged Genealogy, Glasier Edwards Prentis, Percy Prentis, Prentis Family, X. T. Prentis on 26 Apr 2009 | 1 Comment »

(A recent story addition to grandfather’s page on my online family tree.) My grandfather X.T. was named for his grandfather, Xavier Thomas Prentis, but was only called by the initials, and to his knowledge, so was his grandfather. In fact, Granddad didn’t even know he had a full name until while serving in the Iowa [...]

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Feeding My Addiction

Posted in Everyday Life, Family, Genealogy, tagged Ancestry.com, Genealogy on 26 Apr 2009 | 1 Comment »

I’ve had so many issues with my Family Tree Maker program this past couple of weeks. I had version 16 working smoothly for a couple of years, but my genealogy file got corrupted somehow after recent new data entries. I was able to restore most of it, but will have to re-enter a few things. [...]

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