Category: Genealogy

Just a couple of days ago, I stumbled across Jeffrey Robison’s very elaborate, well structured and highly researched website at which strangely included many of my direct paternal ancetsors AND a link to my own maternal link to Mayflower passenger, John Howland. Wow! I quickly fired off some grave stone photos and offered to contribute…
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Transcribing “Lest We Forget” takes on a new meaning! I forgot!! I know it’s the 17th and I’ve already missed the 16th and I’ll probably miss the 18th! But, I’m with my sister in Upstate New York. Her husband is in the hospital and I wanted to spend a few days with her while everything…
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Thanks, Greg Lovelace! Greg did the research that I should have done… Namely, he was able to find a Wikipedia article regarding a railroad “spreader” that Clem was talking about in a few of his diary entries. Here’s the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreader_(railroad) Thanks again Greg!

I’ll have to do the transcription later tonight or tomorrow. I’m on my way to New York to visit with my sister and brither-in-law and it’s getting late! Stay tuned! Sunday, February 15, 2013 Finally! I’ve got a few minutes to transcribe the earlier post… Here it is: Saturday, February 15, 1913 “Lest We Forget”…
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Friday, February 14, 1913 “Lest We Forget” We got up at 6 Ocl. to met the 8 ocl. train to get the spreader Cullerne was agraid that he might miss the train and looose the spreader because Starry called him down about the work. We left the north yards at 9:30 am and ran to…
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Thursday, February 13, 1913 “Lest We Forget” We went down to Mr Crommons office to see if Starry would come in on the train but he did not show up. We went down to the fraching [?] plant and had dinner and stoke the levels we ran to the north yards they came back to…
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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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