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Years ago when I wrote about my third great-grandfather John Wesley Williams, I stated that he was born “in Cambridge, Washington County, NY to Jason and Lucy Williams”.  For years I had no idea who Jason and Lucy were.  When full-text search came to Family Search I happily found a few deeds for Jason with his wife Lucy, but that was it. 

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