Posted in Inheritance, Life and Death, Photographs, Smile For the Camera (Carnival), challenge, personal, stories, tagged friends, Johnson, personal, siblings, Smile For the Camera, stories on March 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The 11th Edition of Smile for the Camera is “Brothers and Sisters”. “Were they battling brothers, shy little sisters, or was it brother & sister against the world?”
Mom (Mary), Glen and Genevieve
My mom was the third child born to Glen and Vesta (Wilt) Johnson. Glen Jr. was the oldest, born in 1917, and Genevieve born [...]
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One of my new readers, Sheri, of Grandma’s Stitches awarded me with this KreativBlogger Award! The rules are fairly simple:
1. Copy the award to your site.
2. Link to the person from whom you received the award.
3. Nominate 7 other bloggers.
4. Link to those sites on your blog.
5. Leave a message on the blogs you nominate.
Since [...]
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Kathryn Lake Hogan, of LOOKING4ANCESTORS offered a Fun Friday challenge that dares us to comment on at least 10 blogs – some favorites and some new.
I’ve been catching up on my genea-blog reading and trying to comment on those I’ve read. This is my list:
1. footnoteMaven on the post Maria Bash and the Spirit Hoax
2. [...]
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Posted in Life and Death, news, personal, stories, tagged cemetery, census, Coshocton, House, news, newspaper, Ohio, South Lawn, stories on September 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My dad remembers his mother’s youngest brother with fondness. Born Alva Lester House on May 9, 1886 in Coshocton County, Ohio, he was the youngest of James and Frances (Ogan) House’s eight children. Somewhere along the line, he acquired the nickname of “Doc” even though he went by his middle name, Lester.
Lester and Mary Lucy [...]
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In the 1950s when my parents lived in Japan, they bought a reel-to-reel tape player and recorded oral letters which they sent to my grandparents in Ohio. There weren’t many that survived as they were erased, recorded over or became so bad no one could understand what was recorded on them. Those that did survive [...]
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Last week, Tim Abbott from Walking the Berkshires posted a challenge that asked, What were the 10 most influencial albums of your formative teenaged years? I’ve read several genea-blogger posts and know that once I list the music that shaped my life as an adolescent, I’ll appear as the teeny-bopper I really was!
So without further [...]
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For a Picnic!
Bill at West in New England has posted WELCOME TO THE PICNIC!. There are 20 different posts and they all have some very interesting (sometimes amusing) information! I urge you to go check out the stories!
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The 49th Carnival of Genealogy – Swimsuit Addition has now been posted! I urge everyone to go take a look and read through the stories. There are wonderful old pictures of people in swim “gear” and some stories to go along with them. Jasia, the host, even has her pictures put up on a really [...]
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