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By: Kathleen Kent - The Heretic’s Daughter « Fyrefly’s Book Blog

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Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:54:21 +0000

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By: A Novel Menagerie

A Novel Menagerie — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:13:37 +0000

I am related to Leland Stanford - Stanford University.
I’m a 5th generation NATIVE Californian on my mother’s side.
On my mother’s side, I am also related to a man who rode with Paul Revere and did the “The Red Coats Are Coming” alarm through the streets and alleys.

That’s the only history I got… but, I gotta read this book!

Sheri
A Novel Menagerie

By: nicole

nicole — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:32:42 +0000

One thing I’d like to research—and actually could if I lived in a more convenient place and people weren’t so darn fussy about it—is that my grandmother’s father had a secret second family in a different part of England, and one day up and left my grandmother’s family. She found out years later that she had half-sisters her own age in London she had never known about; apparently they look just like her too.

By: Thursday Bram

Thursday Bram — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:29:35 +0000

I’ve done a lot of research into my family. Turns out my many great-grandmother (she lived in Quebec in the 1730s) outlived four husbands. Guess she just worked them all too hard.

By: Petunia

Petunia — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:39:31 +0000

Could you remove my name from this giveaway? I just won The Heretic’s Daughter from another blog contest at Books and Cooks. I’m so excited but it means a little work for you. Sorry.

By: Carol

Carol — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:12:21 +0000

A cousin of my father’s traced our family history back to the year 1230. A woman from Spain married and moved to Italy with her new husband. It wasn’t until the early 1900’s that their decendent (my grandfather) came to the United States. Thank you for the chance to win this book!

By: Petunia

Petunia — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:26:26 +0000

My sister is the geneologist in the family and could explain it heaps better that I could but I know we are decendants of Thomas Jefferson on my maternal grandfather’s side. In fact, there are two lines in the family that lead back to him. The family is full of Toms and TJs.

But if I was going to write a family history it would be about my husband’s family. They were Christian Germans who lived through WWII. Opa’s life was life was threatened when he refused to denounce his faith. He survived the prison camps of both the Germans and the Americans while his young wife and two babies(one of them my FIL) lived as refugees, begging for food and being mistreated by the military and the people who had come to hate the Germans. The story of how Oma and Opa found each other again and came to America is amazing. It was a beautiful heritage to marry into.

By: Judith Loue

Judith Loue — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:46:02 +0000

I am not sure if this is Politically Correct, but my grandmother’s uncles and brothers were into Bootlegging big time in Akron Ohio during Prohibition, and all the time i was growing up i hears the stories about them..but always in hushed tones of shame, etc…i came to learn later that these men got into running liquor out of Canada (across Lake Erie to Cleveland and thereabouts) because it was a Job and they were poor..so the glamor fades somewhat and hard truths set in
i have done a bit of research into the Salem Witch Trials too..not much glamor there either
please enter me into your book giveaway