Posts Tagged ‘ Legends ’

Yes, Virginia, there WAS a Santa Claus

Dec 8th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured Articles

Spoiler alert! If you are now or ever were a believer in Santa Claus, this post may disrupt your space-time continuum to one degree or another. You’ve been warned.

Santa Claus is dead and buried in Saline County, Missouri. Or Rockingham County, North Carolina. Or Akron, Oho. It depends on which Santa Claus you’re looking for. There are quite literally hundreds of Santas listed in Ancestry.com’s databases.

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Joe Leonard, Buffalo Bill, Gen. Custer, et al

Jun 1st, 2009 | By | Category: Legends & Legacies, Real People, Real Stories

As a child of the fifties, nothing could be more exciting than the possibility of an ancestor who might’ve crossed paths with the heroes of black-and-white westerns…

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Samuel Leonard: Taken by Indians!

May 22nd, 2009 | By | Category: Legends & Legacies, Real People, Real Stories

Some of you are no doubt familiar with the legend of Samuel Leonard, and some of you are not. No surprise, really, since his story was essentially hijacked (no offense) by the family of Hannah Duston/Dustin…

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