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Where We Came From

Posted in About Genealogy, Genealogy, MacLean, McLeod on March 14, 2012 | 3 Comments »

Today I am honored to have a guest blogger, my Uncle Ken.  A graduate of Brown University and the Harvard Divinity School, Kenneth Torquil MacLean has served for over 50 years as a Unitarian minister, 20 of them at the Cedar Lane UU Church in Bethesda, Maryland.  An inspired speaker, always fascinated with the human [...]

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One Family’s Story about Hunger

Posted in Genealogy, MacLean on October 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »

FOR BLOG ACTION DAY 2011   #BAD11    Topic:  Food My father’s parents came to Brooklyn, New York from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.  My grandfather, John Alexander MacLean, was in the merchant marine, moving his way up on the large ships of the United Fruit Company.  When things were going well he returned to North [...]

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