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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Listers:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>It ain't there anymore!</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>To help you break down some "brick walls", keep this in
mind.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>The town where my father was born, Lamonta, OR, no longer
exists.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>The house where my maternal grandfather lived (in Seattle
in 1959), no longer exists; it is now a used car lot.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>You can't find Marshfield, OR, on the map today because
it's name was changed to Coos Bay.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>You can't find some houses in Portland because they did a
street reasignment in the 1930's.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>You can't find many houses in many cities throught the USA
because or the Interstate Freeways, which demoloshished or moved them to make
way for the highways.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>You will not find some ancestors because they changed
their name(s), for one reason or another.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>It ain't there anymore!</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Good hunting,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Cecil</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Cecil Houk, ET1 USN Ret.</FONT><FONT face=Arial></DIV>
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