Posted in Photographs, personal, stories, tagged Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Abraham Lincoln, Springfield, vacation, Molly Brown, Mark Twain, Billie Creek Village, Hannibal on July 22, 2008 | No Comments »
My family really doesn’t take vacations to exotic or even genealogical places. We go where family is located - the places we called home at one time. However, along the way we have periodically stopped to see a historical site or be tourists for awhile.
In the summer of 1994, I took a little over three [...]
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Posted in Carnival of Genealogy, Life and Death, Photographs, tagged genealogy, Carnival of Genealogy, Amore, Johnson, CoG, Blazer, Wilt, Werts, Stern, Goul, age on July 8, 2008 | No Comments »
The theme for the 52nd Edition of the Carnival of Genealogy is AGE. As family historians, we take time to carefully mark the birthdates of our forebearers. We print out family tree charts including this all-important data. We make it a point to note at what age family members have married, had children and passed [...]
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Posted in Life and Death, Photographs, tagged cemetery, genealogy, grave, headstones, Indiana, Ohio, Oregon, Washington on July 7, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve been very lucky to be the recipient of old photos - a few prior to the 1900s, many from the early 1900s - 1950s and later. My family has an affinity for snapping photos of graves and headstones - which is like a windfall for me - especially when all the pertinent information is [...]
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Posted in Life and Death, Photographs, stories, tagged Clawson, Delaware County, divorce, genealogy, Indiana, marriage, Photographs, Wilt on June 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One of the earliest divorces I found - one that would also impact my life - was that of my great-grandparents. Joseph Napolean Wilt and Martha Jane Stern were married in Delaware County, Indiana on September 10, 1890. Six children were born to this family - one son was either stillborn or died shortly thereafter. [...]
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While combing through a treasure trove of photos, did you come across some pictures that seem odd or unusual? Or possibly many pictures through the years of some odd tradition your family has? As mentioned in my post Stop and Smell the Flowers my dad took a lot of pictures of flowers. My grandfather took [...]
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I’ve just uploaded some photos to previous posts.
A picture of my mom and aunt sitting in front of the house they grew up in: The Old House
A picture of my mom in her cap and gown: Graduation Past and Present
Update: A picture of Slick climbing a lader and a picture of one of the dogs [...]
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Jasia at Creative Gene has a guest post at Shades of the Departed concerning Digital Scrapbooking for Genealogists. She asks everyone to go check out her post, and she’d like to see our creations too.
Last fall I made two complete digital scrapbook albums - one for my mom on her birthday and one for my [...]
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Posted in Carnival of Genealogy, Life and Death, Photographs, stories, tagged Carnival of Genealogy, CoG, pets, dogs, cats, birds, terrier, poodle on June 11, 2008 | No Comments »
My mom recalls with fondness the two dogs she grew up with. Queenie was an Airedale Terrier and Jewel was a St. Bernard. (Photo at left shows my aunt, uncle & mom with Queenie.)
In the 50s after she and my dad were married, they had a bull terrier – Slick. He was black and [...]
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I wanted to share the goals I have in my family history search and be able to report on each item once I’ve actually accomplished it.
Enter all “loose” data into my Family Tree Maker program. I have lots of newspaper clippings, genealogical letters and other documents that need to be organized and transcribed.
Scan all the [...]
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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 [...]
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