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Family History Through The Alphabet Challenge--The Beginning

I ran into a great idea from the blogger at Genealogy and History News. That blogger suggested the idea way back in May 2012---let the challenge begin.

The challenge was to use every letter in the alphabet some how every week about family history.

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