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LitvakSIG is Participating in the 33rd Annual IAJGS Conference

Thank you to Eden Joachim, President of LitvakSIG, for this announcement.  LitvakSIG is the Special Interest Group (SIG) devoted to Lithuanian (Litvak) – Jewish genealogy, heritage and family history. Our website is www.litvaksig.org.  Our All Lithuania Database (ALD) containing 1.2 million records is freely searchable, as is our Shtetl Database. Our website has hundreds of pages of information …

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The Two Wives of Thomas Garver

My husband’s great-grandfather Charles Garver had a brother, Thomas, who married two sisters—Mary Ann and Ellen Heilman. Thomas Garver (1850-1902) was farmer in Defiance County, Ohio.  According to notes taken by his great-granddaughter Ruth Marie Burkhart in 1943 for a school project, he had a sideline as well.  She wrote, “He was a preacher of …

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For the Love of Norman

I was married for the first time in 2007 at age 51, to a wonderful man.  His father, Norman, walked me down the aisle that day, since my father had died many years before. As I got to know Norman, I was intrigued by the story of his mother, Eliza Jane Carriveau Mosey, who had …

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The End at the Inn: My Griner Ancestors and the Mysterious Death of Merriwether Lewis

Robert Evans Griner (1767_1827) eloped with Priscilla Knight (1774-1848).  They migrated to what they thought was north of Duck River near Hickman County Tennessee that in those days was the border of lands of the Native American Chickasaw Nation, and there they built a cabin.  The United States Army troops advised them that they were …

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