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The Fixed Blade Search & Rescue Knife

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  What started out as a late night stroll through Reddit while recovering from COVID-19, turned into an investigation into the history of this "Larae Search and Rescue knife". It was a unique knife and we were confident that we had the resources available to find out more more. We made some amazing discoveries that include, the former owner and maker of the knife. You can read the entire report and history of this knife HERE for free. (No registration, just a PDF reader) If you have an object that you would like to know the history of, contact us for a free case evaluation.  Visit us on Facebook: @TheHistoryQuest  

The Bentley Ranch

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  The Bentley Ranch Hilltop, Elbert County, Colorado A Historic Elbert County, Colorado ranch with heritage dating back to 1894.  Over the years the ranch has been home to John F. Miller, M. M. Cunningham, John Demont, Theresa Demont, Dick Bentley, Marie Demont Bentley, and Grant Bentley and more . You can now download the .PDF and read the whole report at the Douglas County Libraries, Archives & Local History for FREE without  registration   HERE . Please note this is almost 100 pages and lots of images, making it a 14.7 MB file.

Ancestry is making YOUR photos, THEIR photos

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What does Ancestry do with my photos? On August 03, 2021 Ancestry.com updated it's Terms of Service. As part of this update, you the user have given Ancestry the rights to do whatever they want with your photos and other ""User  Provided Content".  This licensing is discussed on the Ancestry corporate blog post .  The terms from the blog are cited below.  So, what can the user do about it?  Read on to see. ...by submitting User Provided Content through any of the Services, you grant Ancestry a perpetual, sublicensable, worldwide, non-revocable, royalty-free license to host, store, copy, publish, distribute, provide access to, create derivative works of, and otherwise use such User Provided Content to the extent and in the form or context we deem appropriate on or through any media or medium and with any technology or devices now known or hereafter developed or discovered. This includes the right for Ancestry to copy, display, and index your User Provided Content. Anc

The Clinton A. Whittier Ranch

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The Clinton A. Whittier Ranch Franktown, Douglas County, Colorado A Historic Douglas County, Colorado ranch with heritage dating back to 1875.  Over the years the ranch has been home to George Birmingham,  Clinton Whittier, Anna Schreiber Whittier, Glenn and Mary Tyson, Warren O'Brien and Charlotte Musser O'Brien and more.  You can now download the .PDF and read the whole report at the Douglas County Libraries, Archives & Local History for FREE without  registration HERE . All we ask is, after reading it, please comment below and let us know what you enjoyed.  Follow us: