Before genealogy was popular, I was asked a lot why I liked it. Because it's a puzzle, I said, and everybody likes puzzles. Family history is a seek-and-find puzzle: in these 100 random letters, can you find the names you want? Sometimes they are easily found in the top horizontal line, and sometimes you have to catch a break to discover them bafflingly diagonal and backwards.
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