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	Podcast:		Other News
	Episode:		Finding Your Family's Ghosts In Your Own Backyard
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:08:00
	Publish Date:		2018-08-17 07:00:00
	Description:		This story originally aired on October 28, 2017. Seattle Writer Rachel Kessler started this discussion by reading a passage from an essay she wrote that was recently anthologized in a book Ghosts of Seattle Past. “I ride down Yesler every day to get to the library where I research and write. At this point I decided to investigate my own family's history which it turns out is connected to Yesler way and 17th. ‘How far back do you know your family?’ The genealogy librarian opened up the ancestry search engine on the computer in front of us. I knew I had a great-great-grandfather named Herman Kessler. My dad told me that he was a Klondiker and Jewish. I had never paid much attention to these old stories. Several articles in The Seattle Times popped up. The librarian opened the most recent, an obituary. A large black and white photo of a robust older man with round spectacles and a trim Vandyke beard whose deep set eyes and full lips pressed together in a smirk, called to mind my quick
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