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I've been trying to raise the dead. With faded photographs, copied records, old death certificates, family hearsay and e-mails from long-lost cousins. I am an amateur family historian. And this is what I do. Here is one rule of resurrection. It is easier to bring a dead man to life than a woman. The menyou find them in military records, land deeds, court records and prominent in the memories of their descendants. The womenthey prove more elusive. In a short biography of one family patriarch, William Staples, another family historian tells how, as a young boy, William was sold for a small s...
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