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Explore generations of family history, personal stories, photographs, records, and research preserved for generations to come.
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More Than Names
and Dates
Family history is made of people, places, stories, photographs and records that connect one generation to the next.
This archive brings those pieces together in a clear, carefully organized experience — so a researcher can move from one person to a family line, source, photograph or related generation without losing their place.
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9 main family lines, each with people, sources and generations organized together.
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627 surnames are recorded across the archive, generated directly from the family tree data. Browse alphabetically or jump straight to a name.
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Wade Rushton Cothran Jr1896 – 1945
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Helen Arinda Leas1906 – 1939
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Wade Rushton Cothran III1937 – 1994
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Wade Rushton Cothran IV1962 – ?
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Photographs, letters, maps and records can live beside the people and family lines they help explain.
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Newly published stories, sources and research notes from the archive.
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