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History Repeating – Robert Moore and the Dakota Territory

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By Victoria MacGregor I get goose bumps when I pass along parts of my family’s story to anyone who will listen. I must bore a few people to tears. Much of what I like to write about involves a certain amount of creativity and loads of research. With any luck when I start to pull a story together, it’s a photograph that inspires my imagination. Storytellers don’t need to have actually lived through an event or during a particular time … Continue reading

Beyond Doubt – Mary McMillan really was my 3rd great grandmother.

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By Janine Heggie. My great grandfather John Miller Richmond was born in 1873 in Galston, Ayrshire. He had 3 full siblings – Mary born 1866, Agnes Keir born 1868 and James born 1870. Their parents were James Richmond (1848-1910) and Janet Martin Miller (1838-1884). John Miller Richmond and his young family left their Clydebank tenement in Scotland in 1910 bound for the Darling Downs in Queensland. They were followed two years later by his sister Agnes who had married William … Continue reading

The simplest of photos can be the catalyst for great things.

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Document and preserve the stories and the memories. By Victoria MacGregor. The sharing of an old family photograph, and a personal memory, isn’t a popularity contest, or a “what-ya think” moment. The sharing shouldn’t be attributed to the number of likes, hearts or thumbs up collected. Leave all that admiration and back slapping to social media and the showcasing of random current event images. Sharing an old family photograph, can and should be the starting point for a walk down … Continue reading

The Woman behind the Man.

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By Betty Lee. “Lastly, and most of all, thanks are due to my wife who coddled me back to sufficient health, in spite of my rebellious self, to undertake the task of authorship, and then put up with me while I wrote.” This last sentence in the Author’s Acknowledgments from The Coast Watchers, Eric Feldt’s 1946 book, gives but a tiny glimpse of the importance of Nancy Feldt in the life of her remarkable husband. In recent years I have … Continue reading

Search for the hidden stories.

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By Victoria MacGregor. I enjoy writing. Short stories, essays, even the odd birthday card can have a deep and meaningful diddy penned by yours truly attached to the salutation. I’m certainly no novelist that’s for sure, well not yet anyway. But I do like to tell a story. If the subject has a humorous side, or maybe something a bit scary, or as we all can relate to, a family mystery, I like it even better. A few years back … Continue reading