Posted in DNA, FamHist, Family History, Family Stories, Lineage Keeper, tagged DNA, FamHist, Family History, Family Stories, Genealogy, LineageKeeper on 17 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I always wear a seat belt. It makes it harder for aliens to suck me out of the window of my car.
Like most genealogy fans, I’m addicted to researching my lineage and associated families. The addiction started over a half century ago and if anything has intensified every year since then.
Many other researchers from [...]
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I continue to receive requests for more ‘Elwood Drew’ stories. Apparently, tales from his life are as funny to others as they have always been to me.
Born prematurely in the early 1900’s, the midwife didn’t think he would live, so she put him in a shoebox wrapped in a blanket and stuck him on the [...]
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My father had a unique skill in interpersonal relationships. Without selling someone something they didn’t want, he could nonetheless divert their objections as if he was Obi-Wan in the Star Wars movie.
The power company needed to install a new feeder circuit in a fast growing city in Utah. Everyone wanted the power for their homes, [...]
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Posted in Diaries, Family Histories, Family Stories, Handwriting, Journals, Photos, tagged Diaries, Family Histories, Family Stories, Handwriting, Journals, Photos on 2 May 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Christmas came to our house on Apr 30th this year. Years ago, I saw the diary of my great grandfather, David Lewis Drew, in Copperopolis, California. One of my older distant cousins had it in his possession. He allowed me to take one photo of it and then sent me on my way. When I [...]
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How do you record your life? Do you write in a journal daily? Do you use software to record your history in regular sit-down sessions? If so, do you print it out so it isn’t lost when your hard drive fails?
How are you recording the histories of your ancestors? If so, you probably use a [...]
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Whenever I run into topics and words that were common in the mid-1800’s but are all but meaningless today, I consult my copy of Austin’s Indispensable Handbook and General Educator. We love this old book. It was written by George L. Austin, M.D., who in 707 pages covered every topic the young ladies and wives [...]
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While working on my Scots ancestry this week, I spent a little time looking at my Scottish made ties and caps that represent the tartans of my various Scottish ancestral clans.
We all know that it is difficult to prove true ancestry to any of the famous clan surnames back to the distant past because early [...]
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Standing in line with other fourth graders, I dropped my lunch ticket and bent over to pick it up from the floor. The fellow behind me had two newly sharpened pencils sticking out of his pocket and turned to talk to some one just as my head went down. I’ve had a one-eighth inch piece [...]
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We all have certain presents we’d like to receive for Christmas but know that they’ll probably never actually appear.
In 1986 I made slight detour coming home from business meetings in northern California and stopped in Angel’s Camp, California to meet a long lost cousin. When I arrived, I found him teaching tennis to some youth [...]
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I’ve visited with several young men in our area in the past few months as they were working on their Boy Scout Genealogy Merit Badge. Not all of them were fully ‘infected’ with the genealogy ‘disease’ yet, but they have at least been exposed to this fun and addictive hobby.
Frequently, I see [...]
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