These resources (diaries and letters) were described in an article entitled New England Women And Their Families....at the Allen Co., Indiana, Library's E-zine:
21 January 2012
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History is constantly in the making; the task of the chronicler, confronted with the ever increasing bulk of material, becomes one of abbreviation and elimination. How few names, how few periods, how few events, go to make up what the world ultimately sees fit to keep at the finger-tips of memory. (MI Pioneer and Historical Collections, 1907). An effort to catch bits & pieces of history slipping from the "finger-tips of memory."
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The article by Steven W Myers provides great advice. I need to get back to transcribing the letters I have because they have details about so many non-family members.
Apple, Can you imagine the happy dance of the relatives of the non-family members who found those they were searching for in the letters?!
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