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32nd Brookhaven Country Fair highlights history

Sunday September 9, 2012 10:40 AM By Brittany Wait

Among those doing re-enactment during the Brookhaven Country

Photo credit: Brittany Wait

John Farkas and his son spend weekends traveling to cemeteries and landmarks all over New York to learn more about their ancestral lineage.

On Saturday, while touring the Longwood Estate in Ridge, Farkas and his girlfriend, Donna Marshall, found that another of his descendants may have lived at the estate at one point.

“I have a long list of descendants who fought in the French and Indian...

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