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There is almost 20 years between the "first" family and the "second" family. Our family has a tremendous wealth of "oral history".  John and Ruth had the first of their eight children in 1953 and the last child born 17 years later. 

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bullet Getting Lost - How to get really lost when you're 3 years old.
bullet The Backyard Penitentiary - There was a sandbox, twins, a snow fence, and an escapee...
bullet The Grandparents- A few memories of our grandparents and their homes.
bullet Ghosts - There were many ghosts "living" with us in the house.  We were scared to see "13 Ghosts" but it didn't seem to phase us that our house had more roaming around.
bullet When Gas was 33 Cents a Gallon -  Remembering the endless hours driving through the streets of Eureka
bullet Chickens - VJ remembers chickens with "affection".
bullet The Belt - When you got into trouble...the dreaded belt wasn't too far behind.
bullet A Christmas Story - VJ's recollection of Christmas past.
bullet The Halloween Party - Costumes and candy, sure enough, but it was the Halloween party that made all other Halloween nights pale in comparison
bullet High Cholesterol Runs in the Family.  The three oldest boys can relate.
bullet John, a Rose by a Different Name - Mom's reason for not having an heir with the name of John.
bullet The History of the Smiths, Ryans and Turgeons - Oral interpretation of the family history.
bullet Our first TV- Its hard to believe that I remember when our first TV arrived. . . wow
bullet Smokey - The dog we grew up with.
bullet The Kitchen Table.   It was around the kitchen table that we discussed the day's events.
bullet Praying the Rosary.   A Smith family tradition that occurred during each Lenten period.
bullet Robbie's version of Smith History - Robbie remembers stories about the Smiths
bullet After the Fire.   Life changes when a boy learns how to light a match.
bullet Camping and Other Four Letter Words. When I say, "rattlesnakes, underwear, teepee canyon, what comes to your mind"?
bullet Visions of Something Dancing in Your Head - Christmas is filled with many memories for the Smith family, but on Christmas morning it looked like a toy store.
bullet Snipe Hunting - The '60s was a time when you could do more things to screw up your children's lives.
bullet Irish John Smith - Collection of comments and documentation of John Smith
bullet The Babysitters - They came in all sizes and shapes, some young and some old.
bullet The Invisible Man - There is always one in every family.
bullet You catch 'em, You clean 'em - A story of making the right decisions in your life.
bullet The Lottery - Don't ever say that the Smith's never won anything "big"
bullet The Boys Room - Move over Red Foxx, the boy's room could rival the "Sanford and Son" lot.
bullet Smith Ancestry - Coat of Arms and Historical References to the "Smiths"
bullet Christmas Leprechaun - How could Santa break a little boy's heart?
bullet Cooking with Boys - Cooking for fun...or cooking dangerously...its the ways boys cook.
bullet Growing Up Catholic - Eureka was 90% German and Protestant...Catholics were rare.
bullet About Food - Responding to Criticisms of "High Cholesterol Runs in the Family"
bullet Acquiring Nicknames - Strange nicknames for "Churekans"
bullet The Turgeons - Initial paper on the Turgeons.  Some of the initial lore has been proven incorrect.  This short research is retained to show where Tim started...and how much work was done to get the story right.
bullet The Operation - The joy of walking, or living life with club feet
bullet Ugly Shoes - The meaning of life found in the shoes you wear
bullet Tim's Letter to Merida on Family - His 40 year recollection of John & Ruth family experience
bullet The Cowboy Vest - The only time it left my body was when mom washed it.
bullet Do You Remember - Barb's one line memory joggers
bullet Visual History in Rocks - Its been said that crystals capture the "soul" of its owner for eternity.  The same can be said of inanimate objects such as rocks - it jogs a memory  and you can remember everything as though it were yesterday.
bullet The Road to Robbins Roost - Terry's memories of the Smith Family's trip to the Black Hills.
bullet Walworth Street - Four blocks in Bedford Stuyvesant (Brooklyn, NY) where the Smith clan lived in the mid 1800s.
bullet Lord of the Three Plains - Story of the Ryan clan and its progeny.
bullet Smith Library and Archives.  The single source for all records and documents collected of the early Smiths and their movement to Dakota Territory.
bullet Irish John Smith.  The continuing story with pictures, records and archival information about the history of our heritage.
bullet The Turgeons (Updated Story).  Connecting the Smith heritage to French origin.  The story takes the Turgeons from Normandy to New France (Quebec) to Dakota territory.
bullet The Trachys.  The family tree of our great-great grandmother from Beaumont, Quebec.
bullet Le Roy Handwriting.   Earliest example of an ancestor's handwriting.  Circa 1650.

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