The Archival Interloper

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THE ARCHIVAL INTERLOPER | About - THE ARCHIVAL INTERLOPER THE ARCHIVAL INTERLOPER About Michael Lee Stills ​ It started when my daughter came home with a homework assignment: "Dad, who are my ancestors?" ​That was more than two decades ago. A Boston University Certificate in Genealogical Research, hundreds of hours in archives, and thousands of records later, I'm still answering her question. But somewhere along the way, I got tired of just filling in charts. The work that matters isn't finding another name and date - it's finding the story behind them. The hardware merchant whose obituary called him a "pioneer" but stopped there - missing the banker, the reformer, the man whose judgment mayors trusted more than poli

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