Posted in Carnival of Genealogy, Life and Death, Photographs, tagged Carnival of Genealogy, childhood, CoG, genealogy, Ohio, swimming on May 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I was first introduced to the concept of “swimming” when I was just a wee little one. Here’s a bathing suit, there’s the water, stick your feet in. Something like that. As a young child I had various experiences with water. I had a small, child’s pool that during the summer Mom and Dad filled [...]
Posted in Life and Death, Photographs, stories, tagged Amore, Baker, Blazer, cousins, genealogy, reunion, Wertz on May 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The summer months signal the end of the school year, the smell of chlorine as we spend time at our backyard or community pools, the sound of ice cubes melting in the tall glasses of water or iced tea, and the call of our nomadic beginnings as we think about travel plans.
Many families will travel [...]
Posted in Inheritance, tagged christening gown, genealogy, heirloom on May 28, 2008 | No Comments »
One of the items that I treasure is the Christening Gown my great-grandmother Katie J. (Blazer) Johnson hand made. I first saw this gown when I was in high school and needed something that had been passed down through the family for an oral report. Mom dug it out of the storage trunk and handed [...]
Posted in Life and Death, Occupations, Photographs, Uncategorized, tagged genealogy, religion, Christian, UCC, Methodist, Catholicism, Nazarene, Salvation Army, church, occupation, Evangelical, Reformed, Baptist on May 27, 2008 | No Comments »
As referenced in the post “A Butcher, A Baker, a . . . Harness Maker?” my family consists of several ministers. My great-uncle, Rollo Werts Amore, was commissioned in the Salvation Army in 1918. He performed many duties as an officer in the “Army”. One of those was to officiate at my parents’ wedding in [...]
Posted in Life and Death, tagged Amish, Christian, Jewish, Mormon, religion on May 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Whether or not you are a religious person or attend any religious service on a regular basis, it is a known fact that our ancestors’ religious views shaped our heritage. Persecution due to their views concerning God, Christ, Buddha, Nature, or Atheism defined where they lived, where they traveled, how they dressed, who they married, [...]
Posted in Life and Death, tagged Beavercreek, flowers, genealogy, Greene County, Ohio on May 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
As a young child growing up in a “growing-out-of-a-rural-farmland-township” in Southwestern Ohio, my parents owned a home on a half-acre lot. We didn’t have privacy fences or alarm systems. We knew every one of our neighbors on our street, some of them behind us, and knew everything about them. Our township had once been rural [...]
Posted in Carnival of Genealogy, tagged genealogy, CoG, Mom on May 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Please make sure you go to Creative Gene: 48th Carnival of Genealogy” if you haven’t already and read all the amazing stories. This CoG’s topic was “Mom, how’d you get so smart?”. My contribution is listed there too! Thanks, Jasia, for hosting these wonderful Carnivals. Please leave comments on those posts you read and let others [...]
Posted in Websites, tagged books, genealogy, google, research, web site on May 19, 2008 | No Comments »
I was very excited several months ago when I came across “Google Books” - especially since there are many books that you can see the Full Preview. If there are any other search engine sites that have this feature - please alert me so I can check them out as well.
If you type “genealogy” into the [...]
Posted in Blogging, tagged genealogy, Ohio on May 15, 2008 | No Comments »
I just came across the Ohio Genealogy Blog - probably have seen it before. However, I wanted to provide the link here - just in case you would like to go digging around.
http://genealogyohio.blogspot.com/
Posted in Life and Death, tagged Coshocton, genealogy, House, Ogan on May 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Stories have filtered down through the family that my great-grandmother, Frances, was left on a doorstep as a baby. Her maiden name has been reported as Ogan - according to her husband’s, James House’s, application for invalid pension and her obituary - and Ogelvey - according to my dad and her son, (Alva) Lester House. [...]
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