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Due to the events of the past few days, here are some portraits of refugees. One was a peace-loving man who fled Denmark to avoid conscript...

Here, finally, is an actual consecration deed. So far I have only this one for Archibald N. Hill. There is one listed for Myron Tanner ...

Ron Tanner somehow found and added pictures of John Tanner's family Bible to FamilySearch Family Tree. Since I work with nineteenth cen...

...Pardon Tanner, that is. Every so often, someone compares his or her personal family records to John Tanner's FamilySearch Fami...

April 10/54 Brother Young     I Dedicate Myself & wemen and Children with all that I Have in Posesion unto The Lord and Your Desp...

Another consecration deed, this one for John Sutton and, by extension, his wife Mary Ellison Sutton. The collection, like any prof...

I will not explain consecration deeds right now, but I will plan to do so after I post a number of them. I am reading a newly-digitized...

LeRoy Parkinson Tanner served on the Mexican border and then in Europe during the First World War. Sometime after the war he joined the Ame...

A home, listing as " Historic Pugsley Manor House" is available for short-term rentals on Airbnb . "Manor" is an ex...

A few days ago I stepped off the ferry onto Ellis Island and walked up the path to the immigration building. I'd been there before, so...