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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - The Stars of Your WDYTYA Show

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:   It's  Saturday Night  again -  time for some more  Genealogy Fun!! Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to: 1 ) Pretend that you are one of the subjects on the  Who Do You Think You Are?  show on television. 2) Which of your ancestors (maximum of two) would be featured on your hour-long show? What stories would be told, and what places would you visit? 3) Tell us about it on your own blog, in comments to this blog post, or in a Note or Comment on Facebook. One ancestor that would be featured would be my great-grandmother, Clara Loretta Scott. Clara was adopted by her aunt (her father's sister) and uncle. She had two brothers (and a potential full-blooded sister that died when Clara was a baby and probably never knew about) that were put in the orphanage. Why were they put in the orphanage? What was their life like there? What issues or situations were happening that made them be placed  in a child...