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The Elusive Ancestor
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The Elusive Ancestor
A vicious civil war is savaging the country, threatening to destroy the very fabric of civilization.
Families are torn apart.
Brother is pitted against brother, and father against son, as America is divided into two regions. North and South.
Young William McPherson wants no part of, what seems to him, a futile and senseless war, so he escapes.
The Elusive Ancestor
Follow along as Will McPherson makes his way across 1861 America from Virginia, to a new life in Oregon.
Now go with Danny McPherson, a hundred and forty years later, as he searches for this ancestor, whose story has been lost in time.
A vicious civil war is savaging the country, threatening to destroy the very fabric of civilization.
Families are torn apart.
Brother is pitted against brother, and father against son, as America is divided into two regions. North and South.
Young William McPherson wants no part of, what seems to him, a futile and senseless war, so he escapes.
The Elusive Ancestor
Follow along as Will McPherson makes his way across 1861 America from Virginia, to a new life in Oregon.
Now go with Danny McPherson, a hundred and forty years later, as he searches for this ancestor, whose story has been lost in time.
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Patricia Shannon
Patricia Shannon lives with her husband in a small mountain town in southern Colorado.
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