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My genea-blogger friend Thomas MacEntee did this on Facebook, and so I thought I would give it a whirl here on iPentimento too. The idea is to compete this meme (and no, you don't have to tag anyone!) by taking the first sentence of the first post of each month of last year and list them.

1. "About a decade ago a lady named Shirley contacted me for more information about my husband's Miller family of Brown County, Illinois." from This Miller Genealogy Book Is Totally Worthless
2. As I stated in Genealogy Tracking: Wilkersons, Whitmores and L. Frank Boyd - Part 2 our genealogy research led us to L. Frank Boyd, my husband’s 1st cousin, four times removed." Genealogy Tracking: Wilkersons, Whitmores and L. Frank Boyd – Part 3
3. "This is only a friendly referral." 75% Off FamilyLink Resource Kit From Paul Allen
4. "When you think you have examined all of the genealogical resources, you might want to consider one more: Masonic Records" Masonic Records And Genealogical Research
5. "I am a subscriber to Footnote, as well as an affiliate." 20% Discount at Footnote in May
6. "You know I predominantly blog about genealogy topics, but now and then I am going to alert you to a good blog promotion tool too." iPentimento Now BlogUpp Equipped
7. "As you may have noticed, I have not posted for a while. I have been on a genealogical journey of sorts, researching the Bordeaux family of Washington state." Vintage Photos at Shadow Catchers Capture WA State History
8. "Yesterday, I found out that one of my family members has a new invention." How To Find Inventors In Your Family
9. "I love reading memoirs, but I especially love reading them when they are about where I live." Remembering Bremerton During World War II
10. "I found this clipping in my collection of newspaper articles my Yates family had saved." Beatrice Bordeaux Elopes With Kenneth Palmer
11. ""Where there's smoke, there's fire", so they say." WA State History - The Fire Lookout Builders
12. "If you're like me, I bet you try almost every way and means to find your ancestors. Finding Ancestors Using DAR Chapter Webpages

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Sometimes, genealogical information can come to you in most extraordinary ways. Take, for instance, the life of Henry Travers. You probably know of him from the Frank Capra movie It's a Wonderful Life, starring Jimmy Stewart. Henry Travers played the angel Clarence Oddbody who was trying to get his wings, and did so by saving George Bailey from suicide on that cold and icy bridge in Bedford Falls. But the backstory of his life came to me when we moved to Port Orchard, Washington and into a house on Opdal Road in 1982. It was then that we met the Hess family. As I got to know the wife Peggy Hess, she told me of her connection to Henry Travers.  One day, we were discussing the movie and Peggy said, "Oh, you mean my 'grandpa' ". Henry Travers was born Travers John Heagerty in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England, the son of Daniel Heagerty, an Irish doctor from Cork and Ellen Gillman Hornibrook Belcher from Bandon, Co. Cork Ireland. They moved to Huddleston Street in Cullercoats, near Newcastle on Tyne, England. Henry died in Hollywood, California October 18, 1965.  He and his wife Ann Travers were interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

I am not aware that Henry was married other than to Ann Glud Courtland, widow of Harold Lansing Courtland.   Ann had lived in Alaska with her husband Harold before moving back to Seattle.  Harold and Ann had a daughter Dorothy b. abt 1915 in WA; Margaret who was born there around 1920; and their son William Lansing Courtland was born December 30, 1927 also in Washington.  Harold Courtland, a cook, died an untimely death in the Kelso, Washington train station after suffering a massive heart attack. Ann moved to Hollywood, California after Harry's death and that is where she met and married Henry Travers. So, there you have it. You just never know what serendipitous events might give you a brush with history. Sources: FindAGrave, Wikipedia, Turner Classic Movies

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