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Ancestry/Genealogy

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1. Some unusual deaths do turn up in genealogy.

Reply to GentryDixon (Original post)

Fri Jul 11, 2014, 08:22 PM

Jul 2014

I found a great granduncle who hanged himself from a ceiling light fixture in a Detroit hotel.
Also found a 14 yr.old who impaled himself on a pitchfork while jumping on a haystack.

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I found a fourth cousin [View all] GentryDixon Jul 2014 OP

Some unusual deaths do turn up in genealogy. No Vested Interest Jul 2014 #1

I had a third cousin who was murdered in Lumberton, TX circa 1979. AverageJoe90 Aug 2014 #2