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Category: US History

Becoming A Daughter In My Fifties

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Posted on November 11, 2024December 9, 2024 By Sister Rain

=Sister Rain’s Note: This is the eighth story in a series about my search for an ancestor who was a Patriot in the American Revolutionary War. To read the previous posts, click on the following: “Historical Society Of Pennsylvania“ “The Search Heard Round The World” “The Son-In-Law Of Liberty” “This…

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Proving My DNA To The DAR

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Posted on November 4, 2024December 9, 2024 By Sister Rain

ISister Rain’s Note: This is the seventh story in a series about my search for an ancestor who was a Patriot in the American Revolutionary War. To read the previous posts, click on the following: “Historical Society Of Pennsylvania“ “The Search Heard Round The World” “The Son-In-Law Of Liberty” “This…

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Coat Tales

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Posted on October 28, 2024December 9, 2024 By Sister Rain

Sister Rain’s Note: This is the sixth story in a series about my search for an ancestor who was a Patriot in the American Revolutionary War. To read the previous posts, click on the following: “Historical Society Of Pennsylvania“ “The Search Heard Round The World” “The Son-In-Law Of Liberty” “This…

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Family Rarelooms

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Posted on October 21, 2024December 9, 2024 By Sister Rain

Sister Rain’s Note: This is the fifth story in a series about my search for an ancestor who was a Patriot in the American Revolutionary War. To read the previous posts, click on the following: following: “Historical Society Of Pennsylvania“” “The Search Heard Round The World” “The Son-In-Law Of Liberty”…

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This Colonel Is My Truth

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Posted on October 14, 2024December 9, 2024 By Sister Rain

Sister Rain’s Note: This is the fourth story in a series about my search for an ancestor who was a Patriot in the American Revolutionary War. To read the previous posts, click on the following: “Historical Society Of Pennsylvania“ “The Search Heard Round The World” “The Son-In-Law Of Liberty“  …

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The Son-In-Law Of Liberty

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Posted on October 7, 2024December 9, 2024 By Sister Rain

Sister Rain’s Note: This is the third story in a series about my search for an ancestor who was a Patriot in the American Revolutionary War. To read the previous posts, click on the following: “Historical Society Of Pennsylvania“ “The Search Heard Round The World“   Once my husband had…

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The Search Heard Round The World (Well, My World)

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Posted on September 30, 2024December 9, 2024 By Sister Rain

Sister Rain’s Note: This is the second story in a series about my search for an ancestor who was a Patriot in the American Revolutionary War. To read the previous posts, click on the following: “Historical Society Of Pennsylvia“   I have had a dream for many years to find…

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Historical Society Of Pennsylvania

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Posted on September 23, 2024December 9, 2024 By Sister Rain

In the years that my husband has been researching our ancestors, we have become intimately acquainted with old cemeteries and genealogy organizations. We have made several trips to the Historical  Society of Pennsylvania in downtown Philadelphia, it being our first foray into a place like this. Part library, research, educational,…

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United States Military Academy West Point

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Posted on September 9, 2024 By Sister Rain

As I have shared on this website, I have visited sites where significant events in US History took place. I also have had the privilege and honor to lay wreaths at Veterans’ graves at Arlington National Cemetery on Wreaths Across America Day. I have seen the end. Recently I had…

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I Spy John Andre

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Posted on September 2, 2024March 10, 2025 By Sister Rain

On this day in Sister Rain history, I may lose some followers. I hope you won’t go, but if the boot were on the other foot, who is to say I would not also head for zee hills? In the previously published “I Spy Setauket, Long Island,” “Fraunces Tavern,” and…

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