Auntie LaRae's Free Family Blog

Friday, July 29, 2011

"If you think you have it tough, read history books." Bill Maher

Posted by LaRae Free Kerr at 5:40 PM

LaRae Free Kerr: I've written three sets of columns over my lifetime. The first was a humorous column about being a young mother and was printed monthly in the Idaho Farm News. The second was called QualityQuest and lasted 3 ½ years [until I moved] which was voiced on the Ricks College NPR station by myself. The third was a series of genealogy columns written over more than 5 years and published in 4 venues. My genealogy how-to book, Find Your Actual, Factual Ancestors: A Genealogy Journey in 8 Steps is now at a publishers. My book of columns, It's All Relatives, is available from my website which will be up and running again soon. I've won various writing awards, and even a teaching award at Ricks, though I was "only" an adjunct teacher. Further, Absalom Pennington Free, born 1798, is only my great grandfather. Emeline Young is only my grand aunt. Hmm, that makes Brigham Young my grand uncle by marriage. I love these folks and am excited to write about them. I've stood on the land in St Clair County, Illinois where Absalom Pennington Free farmed. I've located and stood on the spot in Nauvoo where they lived. I would like to visit ancestral spots in North Carolina and Tennessee.

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