It's another Saturday, so it's time for another surname study. This week we'll take a look at another line where I only know of one person with the surname. Today's surname is Cranston, as in Margaret Cranston of Ireland.
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October 2010 research trip report
Early in October, I made a genealogical research trip to central Illinois and eastern Indiana. The goal of the trip was to view some pertinent records in a university archive and then to visit one of the family graveyards - after all, what better activity is there for the haunting month of October?
The short story is that the trip was a success. Now to tell you the longer story...
The haunted house
We've all heard the phrase "skeletons in the closet" referring to some scandalous fact that a family doesn't necessarily want shared with the rest of the world. Well, a few generations back in my family, there was a real skeleton in the attic.
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