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Grandfather Birth Date

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For as long as I can remember my Grandfather Henry Rabon was born Nov. 7, 1912 but I recently came across a document that shows otherwise. I found document where my Grandfather registered for the WW II Draft and it shows he was born Nov. 7, 1911.

Surprising Family Connection

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Over the past 20 years I have been searching for my family ancestors there are times through my search I come across people that I would have never thought would be connected to my family. It happened once again last week. How could my family be connected to the Graham family? I posted some photos on the Conway High School alumni site that were taken by my Dad back in the early 1950's. The Conway High School site is dedicated to those alumni who are deceased. I found some negatives in my Dad's belongings (he passed away in 2006) and my first thought was how am I going to get these negatives developed? To my amazement Walmart was still developing film. After getting the pictures back I found several of the photos were of my Dad when he was a teenager. The remaining pictures were of people I didn't know and of course I had no way of finding out who they were but I figured they must have gone to high school with my Dad. So, I thought I would post them