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This article is very quick and dirty because it’s all that I can do at the moment and you need to have this information NOW! Please read the entire article because you’ll find instructions at the e… Source: Upcoming Ancestry DNA Update – Urgent!!!

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What I have about my paternal grandmother, Margaret Ann Nally, is a handful of facts, a few pictures, a story, and a sprinkling of impressions. That’s all. Oh, one more thing – I got my middle name from her. I am Mary Margaret. I have a “good, Irish-Catholic name,” as someone once told me. It’s a… Continue reading Ancestor # 4 – Margaret Ann Nally

Next week will be about my grandmother on my dad’s side, Margaret Ann Nally. I got my middle name from her, although I never had a chance to meet her!

My ancestor, Dominique Bray, was a party animal!!! That’s what I thought about him at first glance, when I first started writing this post. Now I still think he is a party animal, but with a little bit of a different twist! Dominique Bray was born about 1806, in Vaudreuil County in the Montreal area… Continue reading Ancestor # 3 – Dominique Bray, the Party Animal

  Happy birthday, Grandpa Ralph Yetter! Today would have been Ralph Raymond Yetter’s 120th birthday, so I decided to post his entry today instead of waiting until next week. I never knew either of my grandparents on my dad’s side of the family, Ralph Yetter and Margaret Nally. I so much would have loved to… Continue reading Ancestor # 2 – Ralph Raymond Yetter