December 15, 2025
Tag: scottish clans
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The Tartan and Tuck’s Scottish Clans Postcards
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If your name is Campbell, Gordon, Fraser or any one of more than forty Scottish Clan names, you may find your family’s tartan (Please, don’t call it plaid.) on a Tuck Postcard. Between 1908 and 1912 Tuck & Sons published 42 different cards in seven sets of six cards each. If you are your family’s…
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September 1, 2022 2 Comments
This is a silly example of how to gather information for a postcard biography. By creating a scripted dialog comprised of questions asked at a dinner table, more success will be had than if the same questions were asked in an interrogation on a witness stand. People are quite prone to talk about themselves when they have a spoon, a knife, or a fork as a defensive weapon.