Family History – Page 4 – Tales of a Family

The Lives of Gaspard Boucher and Nicole Lemaire: 12x great grandparents

Published on March 27, 2019February 3, 2022 by Ann Marie Bryant21 Comments

The people best fitted for this country are those who can work with their own hands.
Pierre Boucher

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The Land of Milk and Honey

Published on March 16, 2019February 3, 2020 by Ann Marie Bryant2 Comments

If the Lord is pleased with us, he will lead us into that land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and will give it to us.
Numbers 14:8

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The Ties that Divide

Published on February 24, 2019February 24, 2019 by Ann Marie Bryant18 Comments

Like many grand narratives, some of the best were often rooted in legends and a bit of mystery. This tale was no exception. As details emerged, so did the many questions that raced through my mind as I hit one brick wall and then another.

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Home

Published on February 19, 2019February 19, 2019 by Ann Marie Bryant4 Comments

In the fall of 1961, a smiling couple poses for a photo. The handsome man drapes his arm around his lovely bride while she holds their three-month-old daughter. In the background, the family ranch stretches across the mesa.

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From the Heart: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Published on February 10, 2019February 10, 2019 by Ann Marie BryantLeave a comment

There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.

–Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The True way to Live: Laura Ingalls Wilder

Published on February 3, 2019February 5, 2019 by Ann Marie Bryant4 Comments

“I realized I had seen and lived it all—all the successive phases of the frontier, first the frontiersman, then the pioneer, then the farmers and the towns.”
–Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Connections, Ideas, Questions, and Help!

Published on January 31, 2019January 31, 2019 by Ann Marie Bryant5 Comments

The earliest maps were ‘story’ maps. Cartographers were artists who mingled knowledge with supposition, memory and fears. Their maps described both landscape and the events, which had taken place within it, enabling travellers to plot a route as well as to experience a story.

Rory MacLean

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Grandmother Catherine

Published on January 22, 2019January 22, 2019 by Ann Marie Bryant5 Comments

“Growth in love comes from a place of absence, where the imagination is left to its own devices and creates you to be much more than reality would ever allow.”
― Jamie Weise

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The Key to my Heart

Published on January 17, 2019January 17, 2019 by Ann Marie Bryant7 Comments

“Most of us have nicknames—annoying, endearing, embarrassing.
But what about your true name?
It is not necessarily your given name. But it is the one to which you are most eager to respond when called.
Ever wonder why?
Your true name has the secret power to call you.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

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Now, That’s a Strange Name

Published on January 15, 2019January 21, 2019 by Ann Marie Bryant12 Comments

This strange ancestor lived to be 88 years old, and he fathered 17 children. At the time of his death, he had over 280 grandchildren, well when including grandchildren, great grandchildren and great-great grandchildren! What a legacy!

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