Family Research - Classes - Workshops - Consultation
Last night was the 4th and final in a series of presentations on genealogy and family research at the Wilbraham Public Library. Without a doubt, this was the best turnout I’ve had yet. Two things struck me: 1) Except for the last night (the Monday after the “Nemo” storm) there were more and more participants…
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I was directed to this by a friend of mine today. It’s a “rewrite” of a slightly more famous psalm that you may recognize! Genealogy is my Pastime by Wildamae Brestal Genealogy is my pastime, I shall not stray. It maketh me to lie down and examine half-buried tombstones. It leadeth me into still courthouses;…
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Ok, the best laid plans…. I’ve got a great new APP on my smartphone to snap a scan of the page directly out of the diary without having to put it on the flatbed scanner and risk hurting the spine. It converts the image into a PDF of JPG so I can file it and…
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Had to share… Carter Anthony Reid, 6 pounds, 4 ounces, 20 inches. He’s a peanut! I’m accustomed to 9 – 10 pound babies!
One of the followers of this post (and a BU “classmate”) offered a suggestion. I’ve resisted putting the diary on a flatbed scanner for fear of damaging the spine. However, just a few days ago, I download an APP onto my smartphone called “GENIUS SCAN”. Not being a “genius”, I was understandably hesitant but willing…
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Arr at Edmonton at 9:30 Cullerne and I had breakfast and went out to stake out a crossing in town, worked about 1 hour. Then we went down to the [–?–] Office and stayed till dinner time. after dinner we lazed around the offfice. I fixed Louis’s lamp for the blue print.
Hezekiah Robison was my 4th great grandfather, a well documented pedigree. He was probably born in either Virginia or in what is now West Virginia. I have never been able to locate anything other than references to “Virginia” as his place of birth on census records. His father was probably John or Jonathan, an immigrant…
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Clem Dickson, construction worker for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, Sunday, February 9, 1913 made this entry somewhere near Edmonton, Alberta: This morning we all sleep in did not get up till 9 oc. We had breakfast and I came back and started my big washiing. It last till about 3 ocl P.M. Sunday evening…
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“NEMO”…it almost sounds wimpy compared to “THE BLIZZARD OF 2013!”… The good news is that Governors of Massachusetts and Connecticut were way ahead of this one. ALL highways were shut down at 4pm on Friday. The Mass Turnpike was all but deserted by 6pm compared to the same type of storm in 1978 where there…
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It’s Friday, February 8, 2013 and we’re getting up to 3 feet of snow. What did the weather bring 100 years ago on Saturday, February 8, 1913? As usual, Clem always gives us a brief weather report: We got up at 6:30 weather very nice a little cold till the sun came up and then…
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