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		<title>Study: &#8216;Family stories&#8217; more important than inheritance</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There have been a number of studies over the past several years that have tried to get a handle on how much wealth pre-baby boomers — those born before 1946 — are going to pass down to their baby boomer and post-baby boomer heirs. In fact, while all agree the number will set a new [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Homesickness and the natural longing for all things &#8220;home&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 15:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It’s about a month into the new school year. Which, according to those who track such things, means homesickness among college freshman is now hitting its peak. Homesickness is the topic of a fascinating book, Homesickness: An American History, published late last year by historian Susan J. Matt, in which she knocks down some of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Helen Spencer of Save Every Step launched a great series entitled, &#8220;Life&#8217;s a Journey,&#8221; earlier this year that you should check out. Save Every Step is a memory storage Web site that organizes your images and experiences in an online timeline in chronological order. Here is her latest post in the &#8220;Journey&#8221; series.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Home is Where the Heart Is: Alaska Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 04:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Mike Hiestand, Houstory Publishing Founder So Dan and I just returned from a week-long cruise to Southeast Alaska where we had a truly wonderful time with family and friends celebrating our folk&#8217;s 50th wedding anniversary. In addition to the &#8220;normal,&#8221; and amazing wild Alaskan fare of spouting whales, seals, bears, glaciers we also took [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Heirloom Registry: A Gift from Grandpa</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Between 2006-09, I was presented with two gifts that would change my life. The first was the simple, but now seemingly “obvious” idea for the Home History Book. A “baby book for the home,” we call it in our elevator speech. An archival-quality book that tells the story of how a house becomes a home, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Heirloom Registry Presents: &#8216;A Three-Minute Love Story&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Dan Hiestand, Houstory Publishing Marketing Director I&#8217;m not going to write a whole lot this week. I&#8217;ll let the video do the talking. Special thanks to Angela Compton  (www.comptondesign.com), a great friend of nearly three decades and an incredibly talented artist who helped the little family and table come to life; and Matt Read [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>100-year-old mystery package to &#8220;benefit and delight future generations&#8221; opened in Norway</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 20:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Mike Hiestand, Houstory Publishing Founder So, I just watched a livestream of a “mysterious” 100-year-old package being opened after being stored in a Norwegian museum for all these years. The Norwegian newspaper, Verdens Gang, said the package dates back to Aug. 26, 1912, when it was delivered by a local man named Johan Nygard, along with a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>PHOTOS: The Heirloom Registry spends a Saturday outside an Antiques Roadshow event</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 16:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Seattle Times estimated that 6,000 people attended the Antiques Roadshow event on Saturday in Seattle. During the day, representatives of the Heirloom Registry spoke with several hundred of them about their family heirlooms and family keepsakes— and the stories behind them — as the lucky ticketholders to the event made their way to and from [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Home history central: A collection of news stories for researching your historic home</title>
		<link>https://houstory.wordpress.com/2012/08/15/home_history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a few weeks since we&#8217;ve written anything relating to house histories, so this week we are going to dedicate a few minutes to showcasing some of the more prominent news stories we&#8217;ve seen over the past six months on researching a home&#8217;s history. It&#8217;s not meant to be an authoritative list &#8212; but [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Your house is burning! What family heirlooms or keepsakes &#8212; if any &#8212; are you going to grab?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2012 17:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Dan Hiestand, Houstory Publishing Marketing Director A quick post this week asking our readers a very simple question: If your house was burning, what would you take with you? It&#8217;s not my question. Rather, it comes from The Burning House blog. It&#8217;s kind of my latest obsession, as it allows you to examine &#8212; in a very [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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