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Sleuthing Through Time
We do quite a bit of genealogical research here, and it is always fun when you can use your wits to force the past to give up its secrets. This…
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A Message of Resilience
You know those people in your life who seem to never stop moving? They accomplish so much and it's hard to understand how they find the time to do everything.…
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A Lifetime Under the Hood
Our ancestor Larry Pipes was a professional drag racer, holding two world records in the early 1970s. But his love affair with cars started much earlier. Larry was born in…
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An Artistic Eye
Our ancestor Elaine Burmeister was not only a homemaker who loved to travel, she was also an accomplished oil painter. But her creativity drove her to explore other media as…
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Defender of St. Louis
Our recent post about Revolutionary War veteran John Pipes Jr. got us thinking about a figure in St. Louis history of whom most people are unaware. The name Fernando de…