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My husband and I enjoyed the Planet Earth series so much that I wanted to add a link here for you. It makes a wonderful gift; I had it sent directly to my dad for Father's Day.
Discovery Channel's Planet Earth 11 Part DVD Set!
The Family History Store offers over 1200 products for discovering, preserving and celebrating your heritage. Their selection is extensive so please visit their website.
I make extensive reference to what is offered to you by Footnote.com in my "Important News from the Captain" section. During July, the Revolutionary War Collection is available at no cost.
Our Family Tree: A Treasury of Family Memories
Family Tree Magazine [SUBSCRIPTION]
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With 13 grandchildren, 2+ great-grandchildren and more nieces and nephews than I can keep track of, I really like the Mom's perpetual calanders on this site. You will too!
RootsWeb may be able to help you search.
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This book is a "must read" for anyone who has been touch be adoption.
Many of us have hit one brick wall after another. Reunion.com has an adoption forum. Thanks to that forum, I was able to reunite my neice with her birthmother.
Find schools, people who've saved old yearbooks and check the message boards to help you with your search.
Name Trains are made in Vermont of high quality hardwood with non-toxic paint. A great personalized gift for the child with an unusual name.
Every year, my husband and I host a Costume Party on Halloween. This is a great place to shop early for costumes and they have a nice selection.
A great site for teachers and home schooling moms!
If you're reading this in English, thank a soldier. Specialty items for all branches of our military personnel.
Yardline is the place to buy gifts for the American Sports Fan. They have just about anything you could want, from umbrellas and hammocks to clocks, bird feeders and stepping stones.
The best coffee I've had and they donate $2.00 to your specified charity for every pound you buy.
These are wonderful candles. 100% soot free, they burn to the bottom and there is no tunneling so the soy wax doesn't pool and put out the flame. A little more expensive than those you find in the local store but they last a very long time and there is no waste.
We love to give the gift of time. Bellacor has the largest selection of clocks I have found. There is a special place in someone's home for each one of them.
Everything for the Dog Lover
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Some of the most noted black market operations are listed here. Bessie Bernard, a widow in Brooklyn, New York, sold many babies for a fine price, had many run-ins with the law and evaded them much of the time. She was finally fined and sentenced to one year in prison. 
Dr. Katherine Cole, Miami, Florida, housed unmarried, pregnant woman, delivered their babies and falsified birth records, listing the adoptive mother as the birth mother and then sold the baby for a price. Some of her clients paid as little as $100 for a baby only hours old. 
William and Lila Young ran the Ideal Maternity Home in Nova Scotia. They sold babies for as much as $10,000 in addition to charging steep fees the young girls living in their home. The mortality rate was high and Mrs. Young's treatment often rough.
Gertrude Pitkanen performed illegal abortions and also sold babies in Butte, Montana for twenty-five years. "Gertie's babies" brought at much as $500 and after the purchase, adoptive parents were instructed to dump the placenta on the side of the road as they were driving home with the newborn they had just purchased.
Ruby Hightower sold babies out of her Health Home in Texarkana, Texas for over fifty years. A prominent business owner, her clients were often leading families and her fee was $500. The unwed mothers were medicated to sleep through the birth. They were frequently told their babies died. One family went to the funeral home to pick up the casket. It was already closed and they were told it was because the baby was too bruised to see. Years later a judge agreed to have the grave opened. It was no surprise to anyone that it was empty, with no trace of a child.
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