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- <[[Brennen]]> Just notes for a paper I didn't wind up writing.
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- When my paternal grandmother died of cancer late last year, she left behind a number of documents and items relevant to my family's history, many of which the family turned over to me on the understanding that I would read through, organize, and do my best to preserve them.
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- Among those items are personal correspondence dating from just before the outbreak of the First World War through the end of the Second, several journals, material from my great-grandfather's time in the service just prior to the end of WWI (including a signal mirror, rifle handbook, and discharge papers), her scrapbook from time she and her sisters spent in California working at an airplane factory, and probably other relevant items - the collection is at my parents' home in Laurel, and I haven't yet had the time to make a complete inventory.
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- While I do not really think there is enough material here to focus too effectively on any single aspect of the World Wars as they relate to my family, it would probably be possible to do research focusing on the impact of both conflicts and the interwar years on my family and their surroundings in rural Kansas. I have in mind the eventual compilation of a more comprehensive family history, and this would mean accomplishing a significant portion of that work.
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- Unfortunately, I can't really construct much of a bibliography for this project before I dive into those materials. I am also considering doing some oral interviews with surviving family members and using those as significant primary sources.
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