#52Ancestors in 52 Weeks: A Theory in Progress

In a way, it's hard to believe it's been more than seven months since I last posted, but it's been a busy time. Tim and I have been running two consignment booths - cleaning, pricing, and selling things that my mother has collected or made over the years. Her fears about thieves escalated, and she began to imagine they were getting into the house.

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#52Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Artistic

Genealogist Amy Johnson Crow this week posed the question, "Is there a painter, crafter, quilter, knitter, crocheter, or musician in the family?" My mom, Zenova Cook Hahn, could answer to most of those titles. I'll start with the last; she had piano lessons growing up, and even accompanied one of her friends when she had an appearance on a local TV program in Pensacola, "The Lynn Toney Show." She was also in the high school chorus, or…

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DNA Shared Matches Peril

You may know this. I certainly knew this, but it's not something one thinks about until one is faced with the cold hard evidence. Just because a person shows up on your shared match list, it doesn't mean you are related through the same common ancestor. Today, I decided to look at one of my maternal Stephens matches (I have to differentiate, because I have Stephens on both sides).

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The Great Pensacola Blizzard of 2025

It was probably Thursday the week before the blizzard that one of my coworkers - I work at at TV station - said that the meteorologist was thinking we might get snow, but he didn't want to say it on the air just yet. The next day, he said it on the air - there's a chance of snow. We'd had snow in Pensacola, Florida, before.

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