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Saturday, January 14, 2012

This is the Castle of Chillon (pronounced: she-own)...

....for many years it was a prison for people accused and convicted of witchcraft.
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This is our friend Deidre....

....she is an American college student working on her doctorate degree abroad.
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Here we are at the front of the Castle....

.....It was a little chilly.
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This is the little gift shop across from the Castle....

....also showing the highway above.
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This is the elevated highway we took to get to the Castle.

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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

How do I number these pages??

This was written in the year 1350, over 660 years ago and it is still in pretty good shape.

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This scroll was over 30 feet long...

.....and written in Latin.
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We start our second Family Search Mission, again in Switzerland in January 2013. We are looking forward to digitizing census records from the 1800s.
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