Monthly Archives: November 2015

The Traveling Trunk

Posted on November 12, 2015 by

  TALES OF A TRAVELING STEAMER TRUNK If your family heirloom could talk, what stories would it tell? The steamer travel trunk I inherited has 120 years of travel tales to share. My 2x great-grandparents, Clinton Delos Orcutt, and Anna … Continue reading →

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FAMILY HEIRLOOMS – MASONIC MEDAL

Posted on November 3, 2015 by

THOMAS A. NICHOLS – MASONIC MEDAL     The NICHOLS family has just one other heirloom besides the Latin Bible noted in the preceding blog.  It’s a  Masonic Medal awarded to Thomas A. NICHOLS in 1882 by the Pennsylvania, Anthracite Lodge F&AM … Continue reading →

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Family Heirlooms -Latin Bible- 1581

Posted on November 3, 2015 by

FAMILY HEIRLOOMS Thanks to the prompting of a fellow Genealogy Blogger, Jeanne Bryan Insalaco of Everyone Has a Story, a blogging theme for November is to write about our family heirlooms and share their origins and stories. Those of us … Continue reading →

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