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Old Posted Aug 14, 2019, 1:02 AM
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Originally Posted by Andy6 View Post
Nice. I wonder how many of our forefathers/mothers actually knew each other back then! My one great grandfather arrived in 1899 and the other in 1904 or 1905. Following them year by year through the Henderson Directories, it was interesting how regularly people changed jobs and how they would move house almost on a yearly basis depending on where they worked.
Easy to do back then with only two changes of clothes and virtually next to nothing for furniture. Nothing that plugged in yet either for the most part. No cars either. It's remarkable what's happened in a hundred years or so.
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