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[> I know! I know! -- nancy, 16:31:53 02/21/02 Thu

Pa left Walnut Grove to work on the railroad after June 1, 1879. Ma and the girls followed in September. The winter in the Surveyors' House was the winter of 1879-1880. Pa filed on the homestead in February 1880 (actually, it was on the 19th, just two days ago!).

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[> [> I knew YOU would know. -- delilah, 18:14:22 02/21/02 Thu

Thanks, Nancy!

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[> [> [> Yeah... and... -- nancy, 20:55:25 02/21/02 Thu

What's really pathetic is that I can come up with all this Ingalls trivia and this week when Ginny had to do a family tree, I had NO idea what her grandmother's maiden name was. But since it was John's side of the family, I didn't let it bother me for too long. (g)

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