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<div class="plaintext"><p dir="auto">In one of life’s surprises, one of our daughters sent us something she found through Google (but not ancestor.com), a document about 75 pages long, author currently unknown, that tells stories of my wife’s ancestors back to the late 18th century and ends with her grandparents and their siblings (so we have a chance of reconstructing who the author is). In those cases where its stories coincide with what my wife heard from her grandmother, it seems very accurate.</p>
<p dir="auto">The document has been OCRed, and parts of it look like it was OCRed from handwritten copy. It is a challenge to figure out some of the words, but fortunately they are consistent and become a new vocabulary (almost all ‘m’s become ‘!v’).</p>
<p dir="auto">--Barry</p>
<p dir="auto">On 25 Apr 2019, at 19:16, Pamela McCorduck wrote:</p>
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<blockquote class="embedded"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Your kids, and especially your grandchildren, will so appreciate this kind of memoir. Often, local historical societies welcome a copy too, because the memoir is fine-grained enough to appeal to somebody doing local history, even if it isn’t a big piece of national history.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 25, 2019, at 12:20 PM, Jochen Fromm <<a href="mailto:jofr@cas-group.net" class="">jofr@cas-group.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" class=""><div class=""><div class="">Today the book from Frank arrived, after I ordered it at Amazon recently, and I have read it in the evening. When I read the name "Kayser" of the grandparents I thought they must have a German background, since "Kaiser" is the German word for emperor. (One of my German colleagues is named Kaiser too). And a few pages later I read that they are indeed descendants of German immigrants. Fascinating. It was also interesting to read about the USS Baltimore. I like the idea of writing down the story of the own family to preserve it for future generations. The digital world is so short-lived and temporary.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Jochen</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div id="composer_signature" class=""><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div></div></div>============================================================<br class="">FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv<br class="">Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College<br class="">to unsubscribe <a href="http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com" class="">http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com</a><br class="">archives back to 2003: <a href="http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/" class="">http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/</a><br class="">FRIAM-COMIC <a href="http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/" class="">http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/</a> by Dr. Strangelove<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></blockquote>
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