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From: "Betty" <>
Subject: Re: [MAINE] How Much to Help / How many Ancestors
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 08:49:23 -0400
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Hi David,

I have a book, "Dictionary of American Slang," (eBay), and I looked up
"Skeleton in the Closet" a few days ago. I didn't find that, but I found
the word, "skillion" - meaning an enormous or inconceivable number.
:o)
I'll bet some researchers have a skillion ancestors !
:o)


Betty (near Lowell, MA)

P.S. Also see the word, Skeezik -- a character in the very old comic
strip, "Gasoline Alley."

P.S.2 Because we just had the Halloween holiday, maybe we could start a
thread on how many reserachers have a "skeleton in their closet."

Mine is my great-grandfather, George "Sanford" KIDDER, b1870 in Princeton,
Maine. He spent the last 5 years of his life in the Bangor State
Hospital. His adult children in Winchester, MA, had to drive up to
Princeton in ~1938 and "take" their father to Bangor.
(rest of story in archives)



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Subject: Re: [MAINE] How far to go in helping


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