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Then her grandson, Leo, visited for the holidays. He set a laptop on her kitchen table. “Gram, let me show you something.”

Eleanor spent that whole evening digging. She found her grandfather’s ship manifest from 1923. She found a sepia portrait of her great-great-grandmother, a woman she had only heard about in whispers. She discovered that her family had not one but three soldiers in the Great War. myheritage family tree builder

“She built this,” Leo said. “Not to remember the dead. But to remind the living that we belong to something bigger.” Then her grandson, Leo, visited for the holidays