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7/22 KISSIN' KUZZINS: "Early Quaker Records in Virginia" available in reprint (The Lufkin Daily News)
The Clearfield Company has recently reprinted Miles White's little volume titled "Early Quaker Records in Virginia." These records deal with the so-called Chuckatuck Record which has been published in Volume VI of Hinshaw's Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy.
A pillar of German heritage in Jefferson City (Jefferson City News Tribune)
Here's the church. Here's the steeple. Open it up, there's all the people. This children's rhyme exemplifies the Central United Church of Christ.
Nine senior citizens honored at the fair (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP | Once again senior citizens will have their day Wednesday at the Porter County Fair. Nine seniors representing area agencies have been chosen as the 2008 honored seniors and will get recognition at the fair.
Knee deep in Finns: Naselle Festival celebrates culture and community (The Daily News)
When the Finns who live along the lower Columbia celebrate their heritage, they leave no fin unflapped. Every other summer for 26 years, the community has organized a weekend packed with song, dance, games, stories, food and art firmly grounded in Finnish sisu — the feisty spirit of their culture.
Quite a revelation (San Diego Union-Tribune)
The Britton-Moon family Bible is weathered and full of links to the past. Locks of hair and a letter penned but never sent are slipped between brown and brittle pages. The Bible, printed in Philadelphia in 1887, and others like it present an irresistible challenge to the San Diego Genealogical Society, which is trying to reunite old family Bibles with living descendants.
OPINION—The theology of race (The Nassau Guardian)
The Bible begins with Adam and the genealogy of Jesus is taken in Luke's gospel back to Adam, son of God (Luke 3 :38). Here again, we have the basic concern for all humankind. It is that which descent from Adam signifies - until of all men and women in nature and need.
Where have your genes been? (Provo Daily Herald)
Since the beginning of humankind, your genes -- those squiggly infinitesimal bits of you -- have been flowing, sifting, mutating, and passing through one generation to another until they reached you, and made you much of what you are.
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