September 2009 Everything’s Relative Premium
All in the Family: May Winners ‘Momilies’ Where would we be without Mom’s sensible, tender guidance? No doubt many of us would’ve jumped off cliffs just because our friends did. We’d be combing forests in search of money growing on trees. We’d all be named Mud. It wasn’t easy...
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Everything’s Relative: Meat the Whole Family Premium
Before "spam" became a ubiquitous term for unsolicited e-mail, there was Spam, the canned meat—as the Hormel Co. of Austin, Minn., the makers of Spam and zealous protectors of its trademark, will be quick to remind you. But did you know that there's now a whole Spam family? You...
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One of my paternal great-grandfathers (five back) held a surprising story for me. His name was Abraham Rice and he lived in Framingham, Mass. One Sunday morning in June 1777, he and a neighbor discussed the purchase of a horse. Their bargain was made and, as they shook hands on...
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From her ravishing red ringlets to her designer stilettos, not much is common about Mona Lisa Smile actress Julia Roberts—that is, except her last name. Any family researcher knows you can have the widest, whitest smile in the country, but if your last name takes up roughly half the phone...
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While doing family research I was able to go only as far as my grandfather's parents' names, dates of birth, dates of death, etc. When I got as much information as I could on them, I wanted to get the names of their parents, and I decided if anybody knew...
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