“Everything is relative except relatives,
and they are absolute.”
-Alfred Steiglitz
Family history is a way to bring our ancestors to life.
This blog details my journey as a genealogist and is a means to record my notes, recent discoveries, and the stories of my ancestors. The goal of Relatively is to inspire other family historians to preserve and share their own family stories.
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Why Write this Blog?
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Photogenetic: My Earliest Known McKnight Ancestors
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Mom and Dad in the 1950 U.S. Census
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Love Me Two Times: Carl and Dot
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