<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[My Site]]></title><description><![CDATA[My Site]]></description><link>https://www.thegraft.net/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 16:39:51 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.thegraft.net/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Alice and the War Part 2]]></title><description><![CDATA[EFFECTS 21st Century Family Historians are lucky. We are working in a time when there is access to a vast number of digitized records....]]></description><link>https://www.thegraft.net/post/alice-and-the-war-part-2</link><guid isPermaLink="false">632f0c81c2c3589aa08aa382</guid><pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2022 14:18:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9546a2_55f1c5c3d8504497bf3b5d8095c66059~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_681,h_428,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>helenbegley2</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[ALICE AND THE WAR PART 1]]></title><description><![CDATA[PART 1 : MEMORIAL (Warning - some of the following details and links contain content that may be extremely distressing) The weather in...]]></description><link>https://www.thegraft.net/post/alice-and-the-war-part-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63287f6b04fb23baed5b96a3</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2022 14:54:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9546a2_0cb946d31e75481db1c82cf1de90e365~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_500,h_682,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>helenbegley2</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE BEST MOTHER - Part 2]]></title><description><![CDATA[I can’t recall Florence (Flo) Begley (my grandmother) ever really talking about her mother, Alice Best. It was an odd omission given that...]]></description><link>https://www.thegraft.net/post/the-best-mother-part-2</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6288812a70bcc4d10b943ba1</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2022 06:10:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9546a2_5d98a8a499c643248d0181be71501d86~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_863,h_459,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>helenbegley2</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE BEST MOTHER]]></title><description><![CDATA[At a family funeral, possibly Perc Begley’s, I was told that I looked like Florence's mother and my great grandmother, Alice Ebina Best...]]></description><link>https://www.thegraft.net/post/the-best-mother</link><guid isPermaLink="false">62872feda4557fb2242e26ad</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2022 06:14:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9546a2_fa675a81144a4d48a7e3dd2a97421e67~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_233,h_371,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>helenbegley2</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Graft on the Family Tree]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why ‘The Graft’? Think of Florence Best and Leo Austin (Percy) Begley as the bough of a family tree.  Their bough connects to a vast tree...]]></description><link>https://www.thegraft.net/post/a-graft-on-the-family-tree</link><guid isPermaLink="false">614ea1412418b10017bb0f4a</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2021 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9546a2_fce1480f44ef400bbb620925a5a3c4bb~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_971,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>helenbegley2</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>