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Born in Illinois, I grew up in Wilmette, a northern suburb of Chicago. I have one sibling, an older brother. I am married, for the 2nd time now, to Butch & got 4 children in the deal. They have gone on to make me grandmother 25 times over & great-grandmother to over 20!. After many years working in industry, I got my bachelors and masters degrees in speech communication, & was a professor in that field for 13 years. I retired in 2001 & returned to school & got my doctorate in folklore. Now I meld my two interests - folklore & genealogy - & add my teaching background, resulting in my current profession: speaker/author/entertainer of genealogically-related topics. I play many folk instruments, but my preference is guitar, which I have been playing since 1963. I write the "Aunty Jeff" column for the Informer, newsletter of the Jefferson County NY Gen. Soc. I work in partnership with Gena Philibert-Ortega & Sara Cochran as Genealogy Journeys® where we focus on educating folks about Social History. More about that: genaandjean.blogspot.com. More on our podcasts: genjourneys.podbean.com. More about my own projects: Circlemending.org.
Showing posts with label Chicago. Show all posts
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Wordless Wednesday, 25 November 2009

The home my father was born and lived in for his earliest years on Kildare St., Chicago, Cook, Illinois:

My brother (kneeling) and me (Jean Wilcox Hibben) among the remains of the Kildare house, about 1955):

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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Wordless Wednesday, 28 October 2009

Dad, at about age 3, with his parents (L-R):
Lee Alfred Wilcox, Lee Roy Wilcox, Pauline Elizabeth Miller Wilcox
ca 1915, Chicago, Illinois
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