RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine 25 January 2006, Vol. 9, No. 4 (c) 1998-2006 RootsWeb.com, Inc. http://www.rootsweb.com/ * * * Editor: Myra Vanderpool Gormley, Certified Genealogist Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com Certification: http://www.bcgcertification.org/certification/ * * * ROOTSWEB HELPDESK: Check here for announcements: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/ * * * ========================================================= IN THIS ISSUE: 1. NEWS, NOTES, AND/OR SITES WORTH SEEING 1a. Editor's Desk: Corinth (Maine) HS Local History Project Launched Some Sites Worth Seeing: American Civil War; Missouri State Archives; and Palatines to America 1b. Tips from Readers: "Hearing Our Ancestors Speak" 1c. Using RootsWeb: "Conflicting Information? Here Come De Judge" 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: "Daguerreotype Rescued; Returned" "Message Board Makes Worldwide Link Possible" 3. New User-contributed Databases 4. New/Updated FreePages and HomePages 5. New at RootsWeb 6. RootsWeb Review's Bottomless Mailbag: "Incredible Aging Ancestors" "Banner Year for Genealogist" "Using Different Names" "Sewing Up Taylor Lines" "Tale of Two Emilys" 7. Humor/Humour: "Pruning That Branch of Family Tree" 8. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints ======================================================= IN THIS ISSUE: 1. NEWS, NOTES, AND/OR SOME SITES WORTH SEEING 1a. EDITOR'S DESK: Corinth (Maine) HS Local History Project Launched The Corinth Historical Society of Corinth, Maine is researching and writing the history of the town, a job which has not been done since 1883. It is interested in collecting artifacts and data on the history of the place, old letters, farm journals and receipts, town reports, diaries, photos, school memorabilia, and anecdotes readers care to share. It will copy and return materials, if need be. The society is also interested in genealogical information on any present or former residents of the town--and especially wants to hear from descendants of some of the earlier settlers (ca 1811-1830) of the area. Some surnames found in that time period include BALL, BEAN, CLARK, DYER, BRAGDON, BUDGE, BURNHAM, CAMPBELL, TIBBETTS, GOODHUE, GOVE, GUPPY, and SWEET. Write to: Corinth Historical Society, P. O. Box 541, Corinth, Maine 04427 or contact James R. Wilson (jamesrwilson@charter.net) using the subject of Corinth Historical Society Project. http://www.angelfire.com/me2/corinthhistorical/ * * * SOME SITES WORTH SEEING. AMERICAN CIVIL WAR. Searchable list of 6.2 million Confederate and Union soldiers published by National Park Service. http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ MISSOURI. The Missouri State Archives offers a free website with information about Missouri soldiers who were in service in 12 different wars between 1812 and 1919. There are more than 576,000 records with an easily searched interface. The information comes from individual service cards and images of these cards may be viewed online. http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/soldiers/ Missouri Online Resources and Databases. http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/ordb.asp PALATINES TO AMERICA. This is an outstanding resource and organization for Americans with Germanic ancestry. http://www.palam.org/about.htm * * * 1b. TIPS FROM READERS Hearing Our Ancestors Speak By Katherine A. Reab I am researching my family and found pronunciation to be a real problem for census takers. The name I am researching is GODFREY (God-free). I have found census spellings from GOADFURY (I can just hear that Kentucky drawl) to GODSFERY -- all for the same person. Now when I am stuck on a name, I think of the accent in that area of the country or the person speaking and try spellings based on how the census taker might have heard it said. Surprisingly, that technique has worked for me many times. The dialect and accents in America are amazing and those of us trying to look back in the past are treated to it daily! * * * 1c. USING ROOTSWEB: Conflicting Information? Here Come De Judge Donna DUNN first made contact with her cousin Adam DUNN as a result of clicking the "Search WorldConnect" link at the bottom of her own WorldConnect family tree page for her ancestor Marmaduke DUNN. She had clicked this link every month for the past couple years and found no matches for her mysterious Marmaduke DUNN. Seemingly she had been playing genealogical solitaire until suddenly there was a match to a newly submitted WorldConnect GEDCOM--Adam DUNN's family tree. Donna was proud of the research she had completed on Marmaduke DUNN. She'd put together the links that led her from Oregon where her grandparents had settled in the 1940s back to Muncie, Indiana where they were born and raised. Beyond that, it was anyone's guess as to the origin of the DUNNs. Donna's grandfather's name was John DUNN but his middle name was Marmaduke and he had often told Donna that this was a name used for generations in his DUNN family. He even went by the nickname "Duke" in his youth. Unfortunately Donna's grandfather was no longer around to provide her with any further information about his ancestors but Donna's father "thought" the family was from New England. Donna searched the Internet, used census and other online records and located a Marmaduke DUNN (I mean, how many Marmaduke DUNNs can there be?) in New Haven, Connecticut. A little digging and she found that the name Marmaduke DUNN had been handed down for generations in this DUNN family and that there was a Marmaduke DUNN born about the right time to be Donna's great-grandfather. She was sure she'd found the connection for which she had long been searching. So when she located the independent research done by her cousin Adam DUNN who had also concluded that the Muncie, Indiana DUNNs were indeed a branch of the large New Haven, Connecticut DUNN family, she was ecstatic. The two cousins were pleased with their research and happy to learn they were in agreement about the information. However, they were taken aback when they did their next monthly search of WorldConnect and found another new GEDCOM had been uploaded, which included the Marmaduke DUNN in New Haven that they believed to be their mutual great-grandfather. But, it showed that Marmaduke DUNN had died unmarried in New Haven although no one had ever found a death record or tombstone for him in the DUNN family plot. Donna decided to write to Amy ALLGOOD who had submitted the new WorldConnect file. She admitted to being a bit upset that Amy had not followed through in researching Marmaduke and she would stoop so low as to include incorrect information about his having died young and leaving no descendants. Amy replied almost immediately stating that she had indeed researched all possibilities and determined that the DUNNs in Muncie, Indiana had no connection to her New Haven DUNNs. She had two pieces of evidence to back up her conclusions. The Marmaduke DUNN that Donna and Adam had claimed as their own was not named in the will of his father, also named Marmaduke DUNN, which Amy had obtained. Amy felt that he would have at least been mentioned as all of the living children were listed as were all grandchildren whose parent was deceased at the time the will was written. Amy also pointed out that she had located a Marmaduke DENN in Virginia that she considered to be a more likely candidate to be the progenitor of the Muncie, Indiana DUNNs. Names do evolve and change, she stated, and the Marmaduke DENN of Virginia left a will that included a son John M. DENN said to be living in Indiana. She could not account for this John DENN unless he was the Muncie, Indiana John DUNN. Amy was pretty sure she was correct, but Donna and Adam were not to be swayed. Their surname had never been DENN, they were quite sure. Each felt their examination of the evidence had led them to the true origin of their DUNN family. Amy thought Donna and Adam should edit their GEDCOMs to correct their files, while Donna and Adam were just as adamant that Amy should remove her existing file unless she was willing to "fix" it. Neither side was willing to admit that they even might be wrong in this matter. Eventually, they agreed that there was no judge or jury qualified to determine which evidence was correct in their DUNN research and that there is no way to stamp out conflicting genealogical information on the Internet. They decided to leave their trees, along with their sources, and notes, online for others to find. Hopefully additional information would turn up that would enable them to sort out the conflicting data. Genealogy is not an exact science and obviously there is no such thing as a completed or flawlessly constructed family tree. Adam quipped that they might never be done with their DUNNs. ======Advertisements====== Internet Genealogy -- Download a FREE Preview Issue! Internet Genealogy is a new magazine from the publishers of Family Chronicle and History Magazine. The first issue will be on newsstands at the end of February and will carry a cover date of April/May 2006. For a limited time, you can download a FREE preview issue of Internet Genealogy. You can also take advantage of a limited time introductory subscription offer of $20 (US) or $23 (Cdn) for one year. Visit http://internet-genealogy.com/IG_subsRW.htm * * * GET HELP WITH YOUR BRITISH GENEALOGY British Ancestors, a British company with researchers throughout England and Scotland has helped more than 4,500 satisfied clients worldwide since 1999. Researchers will search the records of your English and Scottish ancestors stored in archives throughout England and Scotland, most of which are unavailable on the Internet. Friendly service, affordable prices and free research assessments. For a FREE! no-obligation research assessment visit http://www.britishancestors.com/consultrwr/ ======End Advertisements====== 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: Daguerreotype Rescued; Returned By Janet Nevling in USA My husband and I had just returned from a cousins' get-together in Williamsburg, Virginia and I looked at my e-mail. I had one from someone who said that she had purchased some old photos from a nearby antique store that was closing and she thought that she might have a photo of a relative. When I asked how she had decided to e-mail me, she said that she had gone to WorldConnect (http://wc.rootsweb.com/) and there were several entries for the subject in the photo (actually a daguerreotype) but my entry was the most complete, so I got the first e-mail. With great happiness my husband (probably his relative in the photo) and I proceeded to the home of this person, only about six miles away. She got out the daguerreotype and indeed it was the same as a photo that we had of my husband's great-great-grandfather, who had lived in a nearby town from about 1850 to 1885. When I asked the lady how she knew who was the subject of the picture, she told us that there was a slip of paper inside the photo frame. When I got the slip of paper out I handed it to my husband saying "Isn't that your grandmother's handwriting?" Indeed it was -- the granddaughter of the person in the photo and someone who did genealogy the hard way, before computers for 50 years. I have enjoyed continuing her work. * * * Message Board Makes Worldwide Link Possible By Pat Hounsell in Welling ton, New Zealand My father-in-law has in his possession the memoirs of his grandfather, John HOUNSELL. These tell how John's father, a merchant sailor, deserted his wife and children in England and probably headed for "somewhere in America" in around 1848 to join his own parents and siblings who had settled there. This was my unpromising introduction to family history. The HOUNSELL name is very well-known and documented in West Dorset, though all the family members I knew of came from a few miles away in Weymouth and there appeared to be no link. Where to begin? John HOUNSELL's father (also John) appeared in no UK census returns though the deserted wife, Jane, was easily traced from 1841 to her death in 1897. RootsWeb Review readers were a great help, one suggesting I put my story on the HOUNSELL message board and without much hope of a reply I did so. Lo and behold, a few months later a message was posted. It led me to a newspaper article in the Sheboygan Press Telegram, 8 September 1923, which described a visit to the town by one Captain Jonathan HOUNSELL. In the article the captain told how his family had arrived in Sheboygan from England in the 1840s. I was elated though at the same time cautious. How could I prove the connection? My biggest stumbling block was that the captain referred to his father as Jonathon, whereas I know him as John. RootsWeb to the rescue again. A very kind contact visiting the Public Records Office at Kew did a search for me and found seamen's tickets records for John HOUNSELL giving his date of birth, town of residence -- Weymouth and the town of birth -- Lyme Regis in West Dorset. A quick e-mail to the Dorset Online Parish Clerk for Lyme Regis confirmed that there was a baptism entry on this date not for John but for Jonathan HOUNSELL. I have since been able to trace John/Jonathan's family back to 1733 in Dorset. However, I have been unsuccessful in finding any descendants of his second family (said to be 14 children) from Wisconsin. This would really be the icing on the cake! * * * Tell us how you made an online connection. Have you found a special cousin? A photograph of your great-grandparents? Solved a missing link that enabled you to take your roots back to Charlemagne? Did you leap over some brick walls or cleverly figure out where your grandmother was hiding in a census? Do tell! Dazzle us with your brilliant sleuthing or uncanny luck. We're all ears. Send your tales of genealogical adventure to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com 3. New User-Contributed Databases at RootsWeb http://userdb.rootsweb.com/submit/ ---------------------------------------------- SHARING OPPORTUNITY. Does your alma mater, old military unit, church, parish, province, county or state have material available that you think would be of interest to genealogists and historians? Do you have any compiled lists of names or databases (other than your personal genealogy) that you would like to share and that you think would be of value and interest to others? In most cases, RootsWeb would be proud to host such material. http://userdb.rootsweb.com/submit/ The following databases have come online recently. They are searchable, but not browseable. Search: To look for specific data or occurrence of text in a file. Browse: To view the entire contents of a file or a group of files. ALABAMA. Jefferson County. Birmingham High School graduates, 1885-1909; 698 records; Birmingham Central High School graduates, 1910-1922; 1,793 records; Donald L. Glover http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ CALIFORNIA. Los Angeles County. Pasadena. Flintridge Sacred Heart High School, 1933-1951; 433 records; Marilyn Feeney Smith http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ Statewide; DeHart (surname), index to deaths, 1905-1939; 56 records; Janece Carter Streig http://userdb.rootsweb.com/deaths/ INDIANA. Vigo County. Garfield High School Class of 1962; 229 records; Administrators, Teachers and Staff, 1962; 60 records; Class of 1963; 220 records Class of 1964; student roster; 350 records; Bernd G. Doss http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ LOUISIANA. Bienville Parish. Bienville. Boddie Cemetery; 15 records; Old Sparta Cemetery; 114 records; Maxine Blake Morgan http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ NORTH CAROLINA. Orange County. University of North Carolina, 1929; 30 records; Paula Lucy Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ OHIO. Greene County. Robinson, "History of Greene County, Ohio," book index 11,418 records; Virginia Mullins http://userdb.rootsweb.com/bookindexes/ OREGON. Columbia County. St. Helens. St. Helens High School, 1941 junior class, 91 records; Carrie White http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ VIRGINIA. Fauquier County. Calverton. 1934 Calverton High School graduates, 12 records; Hanover County. Beaverdam. 1915 Beaverdam High School graduates; 7 records; Henrico County. 1915 woman's college graduates, 37 records; Highland Park School first grade play "Mistress Spring's Surprise Party"; 32 records; Richmond (independent city). Teachers and officers of the Richmond city school system, 1917-1918; 636 records; Paula Lucy Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ Henrico County. Virginia State Council of Knights of Columbus Officers, 1917; 9 records. Paula Lucy Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/groups/ Roanoke (independent city). Roanoke Times, obituaries, October-December 2005; 3,287 records; Lisa L. Herr http://userdb.rootsweb.com/obituaries/ WISCONSIN. Sheboygan County. Sheboygan. Obituaries from the Sheboygan Press; 8 records; Carrie White http://userdb.rootsweb.com/obituaries/ 4. New/Updated Freepages and Homepages -------------------------------------- Can your cousins find your website at RootsWeb? Has it ever been mentioned here or do you have a new, updated, or substantially revised website at RootsWeb (it will have "freepages" or "homepages" in the URL)? Send the URL (its Web address), along with a brief description, including the major pertinent surnames and what is available on your site, to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com DOWLING. A scrapbook of thousands of pictures and genealogy of Dowling relatives including sound files and many famous people. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tdowling/scrapbook.html http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tdowling/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tdowling/famouscousins.htm http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tdowling/presidents/presidents.htm GARRETT, MORTON, HON, HARMON, LOW, RUFFIN, WHITE, PAYNE, RUCKER, SHELTON, DANDRIDGE, and JONES. Localities include: Virginia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Georgia http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=indygrandma SAWYER. This site presents a detailed study of a distinctive Revolutionary War soldier and patriot. Captain Jesse Sawyer (1750-1 825) was a "Green Mountain Boy" and associate of Ethan Allen during those critical early days of Vermont's contribution to the war. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~fjt32/JESS/Jess.htm 5. New at RootsWeb To Request a Free Web Account: http://accounts.rootsweb.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------- Some of these webpages might not yet be accessible. They are created by volunteers, so if one that interests you isn't up yet, please check again in a few days or next week. http://www.rootsweb.com/~[accountname] U.S.A. nhstraff -- Strafford County (New Hampshire) mimontc2 -- Montcalm County (Michigan) txrcai -- Routh Cemeteries Association Inc. (Texas) * * * New Mailing Lists at RootsWeb Request a New Mailing List: http://resources.rootsweb.com/adopt/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Brand-new mailing lists can be found under OTHER/MISCELLANEOUS until moved to their proper categories. For information and an index to the more than 29,500 RootsWeb-hosted genealogy Mailing Lists and for easy subscribing (joining) options go to: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS BARTOSEK DAVIS-UK, DREANY McTAGUE PRESTRIDGE (includes PRESTIDGE, PRESTIGE, PRESTRIGE, PRESTAGE) SETLEY, STERRY THRANE VISCUSO NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS ITA-ABRUZZO-CHIETI -- For the discussion of genealogy, research and history of the Chieti Province, Abruzzo, Italy (Provincia di Chieti) ITA-ABRUZZO-PESCARA -- For the discussion of genealogy, history and research of the Pescara Province, Abruzzo, Italy (Provincia di Pescara) NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS QUAKER-BRITISH-ISLES -- Quaker ancestors and family history in the United Kingdom and Ireland. 11TH-TEXAS-BATTALION -- Spaight's Battalion, also known as the 11th Texas Volunteer Infantry Battalion, Confederate States of America 6. FROM ROOTSWEB REVIEW'S BOTTOMLESS MAILBAG [Editor's note: The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and are not necessarily those of the editor or of RootsWeb.com]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Incredible Aging Ancestors By James Pratt Daniel GRIFFIN of Gorham, New Hampshire, and his wife, Achsah, were certainly creative in giving their ages to census enumerators. --In 1850, Daniel is age 29, Achsah is 25; --In 1860, Daniel has aged to 42, but Achsah to only 37; their son, Nelson, was 9; --In 1870, Daniel has aged to 54, but incredibly, Achsah is only 42, and Nelson is only 17; --In 1880, Daniel has added 14 more years to become 68, but Nelson added only 9 and is 26; Achsah had died. * * * Banner Year for Genealogist By Bud Samuels 2005 was an uncanny year for me. Early in the year conversation at a Colonial Dames meeting by a cousin sent a lady to me who turned out to be a direct cousin. Then an offer to help load a film machine lead to an exchange of names and a crossing of files. Having the large title on my notebook lead to another researcher asking me who? He too had a tie- in and we had a large conflict and in sharing charts and resources resolved. Then came December and Christmas letters. Ah, breakthrough, by a convoluted path three generations were added in a long stalled line. * * * Using Different Names By Charles Dobie http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cdobie/ http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~cdobie/ I have an ancestor who used a different name from the one he was born with. My grandfather (my father's father) was named John David DOBIE at birth -- that's the name on his birth record found in the Ontario Archives. There is no mistake about this because his own father, William Currie DOBIE was the registrar of births in Bruce Mines, Ontario, Canada and signed his own son's birth record. However, my grandfather always used the name Joshua Coatsworth DOBIE and that appears on all of his official records throughout his life. The only reason I can think of is that just after the time of his birth, there must have been a family squabble, so the name of his paternal grandfather (John David) was abandoned for the name of his maternal grandfather (Joshua Coatsworth). My uncle, who is the only remaining member of that family, says he remembers his father mentioning that he had two names. However, no reason was ever given. * * * Sewing Up Taylor Lines By Mary Posey Tallant Some time ago I posted a query on my husband Duane's VAUGHN line. His great-grandfather, William Wesley VAUGHN, was wounded in the Civil War at Gettysburg on 2 July 1863 and died later on 14 July 1863. His wife, Catherine Eda VAUGHN and three daughters were left in Pike County, Georgia, but went to Arkansas some time in the 1870s. I had no idea of her maiden name when I posted the query. Later I received an e-mail from a descendant of William P. TAYLOR saying she could help me with Catherine TAYLOR and William P. TAYLOR line. I did not know the names and e-mailed her back that I did not have them in my database. She returned with the information that Catherine and William P. were siblings and that Catherine's daughter, William Cornelia VAUGHN, had married Noah Leonard HUGGINS in Arkansas. Noah Leonard HUGGINS and William Cornelia VAUGHN (Catherine's youngest daughter), was my husband's grandparents on his mother's side of the family. With the help of this lady and a cousin of hers I now have another generation of TAYLORs. Another search is prudent into the TAYLOR line for my mother was born a TAYLOR. Thank you girls for all of your help. * * * Tale of Two Emilys By Dick Van Nostrand in Bay City, Michigan My search for my mother's French-Canadian ancestors began with a handwritten page of names, birth and death dates compiled by my grandmother, Emma MALLOT HIRSCHMAN, in the early 1950s. She passed away in 1954. The list was remarkably complete except for two great-great- grandmothers, Emily MALOTT and Kitty Stone JARVIS. I spent several years trying all the sources in the family and various libraries nearby and online. Many messages went out asking for information on my great-grandfather Henry MALOTT and his mother Emily and my great-grandmother Jane (Jenny) JARVIS and her family. After thinking it was an impossible dream, I received a reply from Doris Demet of Standish in Arenac County, Michigan. She mentioned that I could find out some information on the Nicholas JARVIS (my great-great-grandfather) family by looking in the 1870 U.S. census for Macomb County, Michigan. I wondered what Macomb County could have to do with the JARVIS family as they lived in Arenac County. I found the State of Michigan Library online and oddly enough, the 1870 census was the only one available online. I typed the name Nicholas JARVIS in search and after several seconds an index popped up with Nicholas JARVIS, wife Emily and 10 children living in Memphis, Michigan. At the end of the list of JARVIS children I noticed the names of Mary, Henry and Edwin MALOTT. Henry MALOTT was my great-grandfather. After getting over the initial shock I started to wonder why the MALOTT children had traveled to the U.S. from Canada with the JARVIS's and who was this Emily JARVIS? I figured that maybe the MALLOT and JARVIS families knew each other or lived in the same vicinity and the MALLOT children traveled with the JARVIS family to the U.S. because of the opportunities here. When trying to figure out relationships and ages I make a drawing of a small family tree and placed people's names and data in the proper places to see if the pieces fit. When I created the JARVIS and MALLOT tree I noticed that Emily MALLOT's husband Joseph had died in 1858 and that Kitty Stone JARVIS had died in 1859. One of the JARVIS children, Agnes, was born in 1862. I started to realize that the two Emilys were one and the same. Emily was Joseph MALLOT's first wife and the second wife of Nicholas JARVIS. More messages on the Internet and help from a previously unknown cousin in Canada, Sandy Gibson, have given me the marriage record of Joseph MALLOT and Emily DUBREUIL at Mount St. Patrick's Church in Griffith and Matawatchan townships and other records confirming much of the story. It seems that after putting all the records together my great- grandparents, Henry MALLOT and Jane (Jenny) JARVIS were step-brother and step-sister due to the lady named Emily and her marriages to Henry's father Joseph MALLOT and Jane's father Nicholas JARVIS. 7. Humor/Humour: Pruning That Branch of Family Tree ------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to: Jerry Ferrin, webmaster, Comanche County, Kansas: History and Genealogy website http://www.rootsweb.com/~kscomanc/ "Tom Sullivan, section foreman at Protection, came up to Coldwater Monday, and after putting himself on the outside of an unknown quantity of bug juice, sought to keep off the chilly blasts of the cold day by taking shelter in the privy at the depot. By some means in his drunken stupor he fell into the vault, where he is supposed to have remained for about two hours and when rescued was almost dead. "Marshall Murphy, with his usual promptness and humanity, had the wretched man cleansed thoroughly, procured a new suit of clothes for him and sent him on his way, if not better, at least a wiser man." The article is located at http://www.rootsweb.com/~kscomanc/cw_review_2dec1887.html * * * Found a humorous sign or entry in census, parish, church, etc. records? Send to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com 8. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints ----------------------------------------------------- SUBSCRIPTIONS. 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