Author Archives: debbiemieszala

Missouri: Adoption and Original Birth Certificates, Take Three

If you have an interest in original birth certificates from Missouri, take note.

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Relocating for Religion: The Christian Catholic Church and “The Leaves of Healing”

Faith healing. A flat earth. The promise of a Utopian society.[1] If not for a religious sect whose doctrine makes me squirm, I would not be alive.

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Illinois State Library Offers Free Trial Databases

It’s that time again. This marks the eighteenth year for the Illinois State Library’s free trial database program, Try-It! Illinois. Users of over 5,000 Illinois ILLINET libraries are allowed trial access to numerous databases.

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Cherished Tokens

We first bagged those things that made my mother appear familiar. It was a logical place to begin. Her clothing was nearest the door. Discarding and donating the clothes of a dead woman has its ghosts.

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Hawaii Opens Adoption Files

Hawaii has a new law.

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Ancestry DNA sale ends Tuesday, 26 April 2016

Ancestry is having a sale on DNA kits! Normally $99, the kits are $79 until the sale ends on April 26, 2016. Click here to go to the sale.

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AncestryDNA Sale, 1-6 January 2016

AncestryDNA is offering its popular autosomal DNA kits at 20% off from 1-6 January 2016. Click here after midnight for a quick link to the sale.

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