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Feb 152007
 

[Administrator’s note: Received this via email from my cousin Doris. I thought it would make a nice addition to the site and have added it with her permission. – 2/17/07]

Just thought I would share a-bit of my life with my family, friends that have known me for years, new friends and some of my email friends that don’t know very much about me…

My old home place

My Old Home-Place about 30 years ago

There was something supremely satisfying about a life so self-contained and complete unto itself… I lived such a life on the Alabama and Tennessee State Line Road… Now I often sit by my duck pond allowing my mind willingly to go back over the years and re-live the secluded and isolated childhood days I lived here… This simple little cabin and the few acres it sat on provided all we needed to sustain a rewarding life…
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Aug 242005
 

Aunt Sam with unidentified cousin - 1947My Aunt Sam (Selma Kull) made a trip to Switzerland in 1947 and put together an album of photos taken and acquired on that trip. That album came into my possession a year or so ago but though I’m sure many of the people pictured are “cousins” the lack of captions has made it difficult for me to determine who they all are. I’ve thought for some time that there may be some information on the backs of the photos but they were all pasted to the album pages so I’ve been hesitant to try to remove them for fear of damaging the photos. I did scan a couple and send them out to the “Kull cousins” a year ago but nobody was able to identify them.

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 Posted by at 11:55 am
Aug 092005
 

Hello fellow Nixes and Nix family tree researchers. I am writing today to all of you I dnahave spoken with and corresponded with over the last year to announce an important milestone for our Nix DNA project. August 9th will be the one year anniversary of our project’s creation. What an exciting year it has been. It has been thrilling to have so many other Nix descendents throughout the world have expressed so much support, dedication, and interest in the DNA project. I would never have dreamed we would already have so many participants and interested parties following our progress after only just one year. Continue reading »

 Posted by at 9:26 am
Jun 202005
 

Received the following letter from Thomas Nix:

Hello. I am writing to all those who have expressed interest in the past regarding the dnaNix surname DNA project to update you about the ongoing project and its results. We recently got back two more participants lab results! There are now 6 Nix males who have been tested, and 5 of those lines match each other. Stop by the website sometime to see the results at http://www.nixfamilytree.com . We have added some new features to the site over the last few months, including: Continue reading »

 Posted by at 5:59 pm
Sep 112003
 

From Michael Leonard:

At our local funeral home families are given the opportunity to chose the music they would like to enter the service to. One family requested the Elvis Presley hit “Love Me Tender.”

The day of the funeral arrived and the music started. Unfortunately the wrong track number was entered into the CD player and the family walked in to “Return to Sender.”

Previously published in RootsWeb Review: Vol. 6, No. 37, 10 September 2003.

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