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Jeanne Shields

How do you get started tracing your family back?

My advice is to start with ‘familysearch.org’ site. It’s free. It helps you along the way. Start with your grandparents if you can. The…

3 min readJan 29, 2023

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Jeanne Shields

Who are we?

I am a genealogist. I follow a family line back from child, to mother and father and so on. I trace ancestors through census records and…

1 min readJan 27, 2023

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Jeanne Shields

Guns and Our Relationship With Them

People are still debating what went wrong in Uvalde. And what should be done about schools. There are excellent studies and books on the…

4 min readJun 19, 2022

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Jeanne Shields

One Voice

People are asking, should Donald Trump go to prison for his actions during his presidency? I’m one voice, pretty insignificant I admit. Do…

5 min readJun 5, 2022

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Jeanne Shields

Roe and Casey

In the excellent book Inheriting the Trade by Thomas Norman DeWolf, the DeWolf family grapples with their legacy as descendants of a…

4 min readMay 5, 2022

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Jeanne Shields

My Irish Ancestors — Coming to America

When the Irish came to American in the 1800s, they did so with very, very little. I have a small wooden box that one of my ancestors…

3 min readApr 30, 2022

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Jeanne Shields

Our History Our Time

Today is January 7th, 2021. When I was in college at the University of Minnesota, in the 70s, getting my degree in history, I never…

6 min readJan 7, 2021

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Jeanne Shields

Donald Trump May Be To Blame For Many Things…

But don’t put the blame the destruction of the Republican Party squarely on him. He is but one man. He may have kicked in a crumbling…

7 min readJan 6, 2021

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Jeanne Shields

I AM FREE

I feel so free in the time of COVID. I feel so free. Is that crazy? I tell my children, and anyone who will listen, that when you look…

3 min readAug 6, 2020

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Jeanne Shields

The Real Reason for the Shutdown

Do you honestly think Trump is building the wall because his base wants him to build it? I think we all know he cares as much about his…

2 min readJan 11, 2019

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Jeanne Shields

Jeanne Shields

I am a writer and an historian who understands our past just enough to know that who we are, can be altered in a decade’s time. Or in mere minutes.

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