Cottage by the Sea

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Dad loved to reminisce of his boyhood days on Green Turtle Cay.  He longed for any opportunity to return.  In the early 1990s, my wife and I discovered that Disney’s Premier Cruiselines offered an itinerary that cruised the Abaco islands.  Their Big Red Boat made stops to Green Turtle Cay,

A Foreign Perspective

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During the 19th and 20th centuries, two Scottish brothers, William and Robert Chambers, published a weekly magazine in London.  The first edition of Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art circulated in 1832 and was priced at one penny. Recently I stumbled across an article online in their May 1867 publication.  It describes a

Expedition to Paradise

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The unexpected is often more enjoyable than the planned course.  Several months ago while working on a project unrelated to family history, I stumbled across the following article published in Raleigh, North Carolina’s News and Observer in June 1886.   The location of Green Turtle Cay caught my attention. A Scientific Expedition INVESTIGATIONS