Having a sense of your ancestry helps you better understand yourself, according to Carolyn Whitaker of Humboldt.
That, in part, is what has led Whitaker, 66, on a search of not only her own family history, but also that of, particularly, Civil War veterans.
“We get so caught up in our everyday lives that we don’t stop and look at ourselves to see what makes us what we are,” she said Tuesday afternoon.
A wisp of a woman, Whitaker has become a warrior for veterans and their service to country.
“They suffered…
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