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The history of the descendants of John Ernest and Sarah (McMAHON) BARLOW
Maternal Ancestrial Database
I've been asked several times why I don't work on my father's lines. The answer to this is that others have been working on those lines for over 100 years and are still researching those lines.
In 1990 my attitude towards genealogical research was "They're dead, leave them that way". My maternal grandmother, whose home I was raised in, dabbled in research. She told me many stories of her family. I decided to assist her in 1990 for a couple of weeks. I learned her Aunt Julia had a child that died young. I wanted to know about the child. Because I couldn't imagine a young woman not marrying again after having a child and shortly afterward loosing her husband, I continually looked too late for the birth and death of the child. It took me two years until I found her death record. In the meantime, I assisted others by researching free for their families, so that I could learn more about the research processs. Result-I caught the genealogy bug. :-)
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