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From: "Peggy Baldwin" <>
Subject: Re: [APG] How old were you when you started your genealogy? What got you started?
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 20:40:30 -0800
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I was 10 years old when I got interested. My whole childhood I read
biographies
and historical novels, and not a lot of fiction. Then, in the fifth grade I
had a teacher who
said an ancestor of his sailed with Columbus and I was amazed that you could
find that
out. My parents gave me the Handbook for Genealogists for Christmas. I
mostly
interviewed relatives until I hit my early 20s and I took a community
college
genealogy course and sent away to the National Archives my second great
grandfather's
Civil War pension. So, I guess I started at 10, but didn't really get
rigorous about
it until my 20s.

Peggy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Kemp" <>
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Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 7:45 PM
Subject: [APG] How old were you when you started your genealogy? What got
you started?


> I'd like to do a survey.
>
> How old were you when you started working on your genealogy? What got you
> started?
>
> Tom
>
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