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I mentioned that we like to go to national parks in the Winter. Well, it does have its drawbacks. You miss the crowds but you get the ice and snow. If...
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Early settlers of the West were subject to hyperbole in their naming of landmarks. Referring to a large rock monolith as a throne was more common than...
Everyone now on FamilySearch Family Tree http://t.co/nQ0jVlFr James Tanner (@Genealogysstar) November 04, 2012 I finally found someone who was registered...
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I finally found someone who was registered with FamilySearch.org and had never been invited to use Family Tree. When he signed into FamilySearch.org, the...
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I would guess that I have spent at least as much time wading and swimming in the Virgin River as any other river other than our own Salt River. If you...
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This is one of those photos that you need to click on to see the detail. Sandstone is a porous rock and some layers more so than others. When the water...
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One thing the Colorado Plateau is famous for is the abundance of slot canyons. These are usually very narrow canyons either with or without a running stream....
Stepping off into the past -- Constructing a Difficult Family http://t.co/rU7O8IJx James Tanner (@Genealogysstar) November 03, 2012 Let's face it, some...
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Let's face it, some families are difficult to reconstruct and identify. I had one uncle who reportedly had eight wives and he wasn't a polygamist. Deaths,...
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Tracks of ancient creatures are not all that uncommon in the sandstone of the Colorado Plateau but I was fully grown, with a family, before I saw my first...
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