The Genealogy Search

It's never too late to join in!  Visit Dear Myrtle at   http://blog.dearmyrtle.com/p/finally-get-organized.html  to get organized! March has been a good month to get all of the tasks completed.  I purposely set aside a minimum of twenty minutes a day to work on my organization and it worked well for me. I shared some photos on my blog, shared memories with family, and attempted to extract some memories from my mother.  I think my family enjoys my sharing of photos on Facebook and the blog the most.  I think the nieces, nephews and my children enjoy pictures of their grandparents, aunts and uncles when they were growing up.  I am thinking about adding some video of some old home movies that we had digitized for all to enjoy. I spent some time photographing some family keepsakes and hope to share more information about them soon. I have entered the wives of my first four generations (and a few other wives not in my direct line).  I have been w...

Dear Myrtle's Finally Get Organized To do list for the week is to share 1 family History Story per day. Visit  http://blog.dearmyrtle.com/2011/03/organization-checklist-tab.html  to join in the fun! Every summer my parents would take my brother and I to visit my grandparents.  They would leave us with them for our vacation - or their vacation which is much more likely the case.  I was always a little sad when our parents dropped us off, perhaps it was a reaction  to the Grandma and Grandpa with cousins cir 1970 almost hysterical laughter they had when they drove away..We had fun playing with our cousins, seeing family, and just been cared for by our grandparents. We did learn a few tricks.  Never let Grandpa know you were awake before Grandma got up.  If you did, he would make you eat his oatmeal which you could stand a spoon in.  He allowed no sugar, no milk, no butter, no nothing! Grandpa would come into the room and check to see i...

Dear Myrtle's Finally Get Organized To do list for the week is to share 1 family History Story per day. Visit  http://blog.dearmyrtle.com/2011/03/organization-checklist-tab.html  to join in the fun! I have shared on Facebook the fact that two of my Great Grandmother's Johanna Schuck Miottel  and Stella Adams Poundstone both passed in the 1918 Flu epidemic. Today I wanted to share something my daughter Jessica Lynne Fay (1983-2015) did when she was little.  One day when we were living with Grandma and Grandpa Clark - Grandpa told her to pick up toys and she said no.  Grandpa said "You will pick up your toys!"  again she said no!  My dad said that she will not tell him no and she put her fists at her side and said "You, you bok wok! I'm mad".  Now we joke around when someone makes us mad we call them a bok wok! Jessica - Bok Wok age four

FINALLY Get Organized – Down to the wire but January is complete! Checklists for Jan 17-23 rd and Jan 24 th-31st You can join in by following Dear Mrytle’s “FINALLY Get Organized” at http://blog.dearmyrtle.com/p/finally-get-organized.htm . I think the whole month of January would have been a bit easier if I had two functioning legs.  I have not mastered the art of the wheelchair - that has cost me some valuable time .  I knocked over my to file box and scattered my sorted papers; I have trapped myself in my office by blocking my way out with binders, boxes, and books.  Thankfully now everything has a place.  I am hoping to get at least one of my casts off in the next ten days.  I made it through /SLIG in a wheelchair I guess making it through some organization  shouldn't kill me but boy I would love the freedom of at least one good leg. þ      Transcribe every document you’ve collected on the first 4-four generati...