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A Story To Share

Ancestry.com is a great website. It really has helped me in ways that I never knew possible. Aside from the little annoying emails I get trying to get me to buy some of their other products, they do provide inspiring stories they receive from people doing their own research.

This story is just one of the stories that fascinates me.

I personally am at the tip of the iceberg in my search. I'm only really finding facts rather than stories, but hopefully I will get to that point soon. Perhaps one day I will have an interesting story to send to the people at Ancestry.com and who knows, they may make a little article like this one.

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