Carol Stetser

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Home Remedies

April 16, 2021 Lately, I’ve been exchanging emails with a cousin. Since our moms were sisters, one of us tends to tell a story about what our respective mother or our mutual grandmother did or told us. The other one responds with a similar story or a completely different one.   It’s been lots of …

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What Color Were Grandpa’s Eyes?

April 8, 2021 Do you know the details of what your ancestors looked like? What color were their eyes? Were they tall or short? Blond or red-haired? In spite of doing years of research on my family, I know the answers to surprisingly few of the above questions. For more recent ancestors, I do have …

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A Girl Named Frasier

April 2, 2021 When I was a baby genealogist, a distant cousin passed along some research that she’d commissioned a genealogist in England to do on our mutual ancestor James Burnett. I knew almost nothing about my second great grandfather’s life in England before he’d emigrated first to New Zealand and later to Utah. The …

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