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Married & Buried in One Week
George Clark wasn’t one of my ancestors (in fact it seems he might not have had time to make descendants), but the newspaper clipping from 13 Feb 1924, paints a picture of poor Ruby Mackentosh grieving her brand new husband in the very living room where she married him, only a week prior! I don’t…
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Timeline of Events at Slater House
Timeline of events at Slater House March 22, 2023|Genealogy research tips, Slater House, Storytelling with genealogy I’ve been using Airtable* to gather data and keep it organized. I love being able to annotate files in a grid like this. The image below contains mostly City Directory listings, and already the file has hundreds of rows. I’m…
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What is Slater House
Slater House is a super fun investigative rabbit hole that my pandemic self hyper-fixated on. Now that the world has reopened, it’s just a mild but lingering obsession. In 1900, Ireland-born John Steven MacDonald and his wife Elizabeth (my great-great-great-grandparents) lived at 114 Slater St. with three of their four daughters: Agnes, Mary, and Nellie.…