The Genealogy Search

It was fifty years ago today, January 28, 1961, that my parents Lloyd and Lorraine (nee Skibbe) Clark married.  How wonderful to see a marriage last.  My father has a tendency to make up silly songs, one such song he sings as he picks up the dog poop (full out when I was a child, the neighbors used to slam their windows shut) but doesn't talk too much ; Mom can cook zucchini 150 different ways and loves to talk - on the phone or in person. Some how the two of them combined their quirkiness to create a workable marriage.     PS - Did I mention Gary married me knowing that I sing silly songs especially to my animals and I talk to much?  Hopefully we will find each other just as unique as my parents have found each other, love you honey!

  This photo is of a pontoon bridge used during WWI.  My mother stated that her father told her that the pontoon bridge was used temporarily to cross rivers during the war.  Her father stated that he obtained the picture during the war, she could not remember whether he said he helped put the bridge together or not.

Just completed item  Task E from #4  Expand Your Knowledge, create  a surname visualization using  Wordle ,  Word It Out  or a similar application.  Post the graphic to your blog.  One task completed a Bronze medal.  Juliana has now scanned about eighty photos.  I have about thirty of them assigned an id number within their appropriate MRIN file and have posted the pictures in my genealogy database.

I found them!  August, Henriette, Wilhelm, Theodor and Reinhold... Ancestry.com. Baltimore Passenger Lists, 1820-1948 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. Original data: Baltimore, Maryland. Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Baltimore, Maryland, 1820-1891. Roll M255_31  Ship: Strassburg Now I have proof of the family arriving in tact in the US.