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  • Family Curse or Bad Genes
    2025/02/17

    Listen in to this episode of Shadows From the Tree, where we delve into the darker side of genealogy by exploring stories pulled from newspaper archives and using historical records to find the truth behind them. This week we focus on stories of the intertwined families of Phetteplace, Harris, and Young. Was there trauma from a generational curse or inherited genetics.

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    48 分
  • Revenge & Rivalry
    2025/01/27

    Listen in to this episode of Shadows From the Tree, where we delve into the darker side of genealogy by exploring stories pulled from newspaper archives and using historical records to find the truth behind them. This week we focus on stories of revenge, highlighting Wade Murphy aka Harry Lyle, starting his tale with small pox and ending in murder. As well as Claude Rosaire's strange anonymous letter revealing his potential identity.

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    43 分
  • Listen if you Dare!
    2025/01/13

    Listen in to this episode of Shadows From the Tree, where we delve into the darker side of genealogy by exploring stories pulled from newspaper archives and using historical records to find the truth behind them. This week we focus on stories of the ghost towns of Wild West Bodie, CA and forbidden forest of Dudleytown, CT.

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    48 分
  • Disasters & Devastation
    2024/12/30

    Listen in to this episode of Shadows From the Tree, where we delve into the darker side of genealogy by exploring stories pulled from newspaper archives and using historical records to find the truth behind them. This week we focus on stories of The Schoolhouse Blizzard of 1888, and Melva tornado on March 11, 1920.

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    45 分
  • Abducted & Abandoned
    2024/12/02

    Listen in to this episode of Shadows From the Tree, where we delve into the darker side of genealogy by exploring stories pulled from newspaper archives and using historical records to find the truth behind them. This week we focus on stories of Deathbed Confessions featuring Minnie Tjaden, abducted by her father and Levi Wilson, the Count of Monte Cristo, of RI.

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    53 分
  • Love on the Battlefield
    2024/11/18

    Listen in to this episode of Shadows From the Tree, where we delve into the darker side of genealogy by exploring stories pulled from newspaper archives and using historical records to find the truth behind them. This week we focus on stories of love on the Civil War battlefield, featuring the love letter written by Sullivan Ballou to his wife. As well as a fearless woman soldier, Kady Brownell.

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    37 分
  • Broken Lives, Broken System
    2024/11/04

    Listen in to this episode of Shadows From the Tree, where we delve into the darker side of genealogy by exploring stories pulled from newspaper archives and using historical records to find the truth behind them. This week we focus on stories of overturned convictions featuring George aka "John" Benway accused of polygamy and George Washington Davis found guilty by gossip of the Rock Island Railway wreck.

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    33 分
  • Children Crusaders & Coal Coup
    2024/10/21

    Listen in to this episode of Shadows From the Tree, where we delve into the darker side of genealogy by exploring stories pulled from newspaper archives and using historical records to find the truth behind them. This week we focus on stories of rebellion, featuring Walter Reeder and his daughter Elbertine of the Children Crusaders, as well as "Smilin" Sid Hatfield who was infamous in West Virginia during the Coal Wars.

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    42 分