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Friday, March 15, 2024

Blessed Holy Easter to All

 Blessed Holy Easter to All,

Whether you are a believer or not I wish God to bless you and to help us make our Country the

USA a strong warm caring country again.    

Having been reeling for weeks over the crazy things happening, being seen and actually done in this

country.

Why did our Educators take away our American History Classes? How did they expect them to learn

what the country was founded on and why we have been successful until more recently.


Learning voting is down and they / we do not even know what the voting is doing or how it is

done and why did it become like this.  Who would want to cheat our country of. our God given 

rights. ?  It seems many do and probably do not know they are evening doing that. 


There was a time that no matter who ran, they had the country at heart not their pocket or their own 

goals or someone else who has coerced them.  

Side bar is I am walking more, praying more, contemplating more and thankfully sleeping better.

I wish you all the same great future  if we can  go back to caring for each other, smiling to each other, 

a hug once in a while and helping a stranger no strings attached.

Reading about families passed, many did these and in the end most times it made us a better 

community and country.   Sometimes I just want to say SMILE, we could be like the 

Ukraine, Russia, Congo and many other places so out of whack.

We can go to the grocery store, maybe not buy what we would like but the store is there.

We can go to church if we desire or at least follow on TV otherwise if you have TV.

Any idea how many do not have TV or Radio or phones etc.  ?

Here many buy clothes via the season in many places the clothes they own are what the 

wear for many seasons. 


Blessings to everyone for we are true earthlings schools missed teaching us much so we 

would meld better over the years.  O not just schools but parents, cousins, aunts, uncles and 

neighbors are needed to step up and wake up to the needs our world needs via our youth.


Friday, January 12, 2024

2024 January Has Arrived. A Found book about our Huffman's was a surprise.

 January 2024 is here.  The wind has blown and the air has changed. WOW it is cold, windy and 

we had a bit of rain. We have gotten 1/2 inch since 1 January, this year.  


Talked to siblings and family and many are in very cold frigid places. Some will be more frigid 

in the next couple of days.  Brother has gotten a wee bit of snow but very bitter wind environment.

Aunt has much same and much colder than brother, Cousin lives near her thankfully.  

Son has gotten drift of snow to almost cover grass but is due a snow dump tonite.  Family in Des Moines

 IA area have been hit hard.  Family everywhere is feeling the affect of this storm.


 We pray this does not affect your own family as you are reading this. It is going to be a mess 

 at the Football Games. 


  Hoping everyone stays safe and has a great start to this new year. 


  Hope you gained ground on some of your Genealogy in the last year.  DNA additions can 

  muddle or excite your quest.



Saturday, November 4, 2023

God is Good, Nov 4, 2023

 Hurray, Every one made it through the day.  Thank You God.  Sis, DIL, Bro, Dear Friend,  Future family member and all others in need.  I think we are being told to re think and re do and do more for others.  

It surely does not hurt to be more caring and sensitive to other needs. It is nice to see some of our political staff are firm believers in God and having Faith. It may be what pulls us through this mess the world in now.

Today I found some papers that are so great to read.  I am triple blessed.  Having moved things so much due to family intake and outtake I had misremembered where they were.   Jones data that we so truly need.  

Knowing I had communicated with them for about five years before they passed, wasn't sure I could ever replicate the data, without lots of more digging.

Now for the weather to have more moisture so this sinus drag goes away. Fires die out and air is more clear.   

If time in life permits I may try to track down the GIBSON line that we have that is only 3 Gens back,

Think it would be cool if Miss Gibson our teacher at Tomales HI  was a distant cousin and her sister .

Now the next big thing is to find how come this is no longer a secure site. What has changed and by whom.????

Gibson in VA and WVA and OH and over to IA and MO. More to come soon. 

Blessings to all.




Monday, October 30, 2023

A Tale to Tell. Genealogy is Fun.

  Greeting, genealogy can be fun and educational and exciting.  Some times you learn you descend from a well known person and sometimes a poster wanted person.  


   What I would love to see is genealogy in schools, teaching them we are all human beings with good points and not so good points.   


    We only inherit a small piece of so many in our background.  Thinking if as students, we learn we are not so different, we may not want to work against each other but work together to see how much further we can go, do, and excel in life.


    Our world gets smaller every day in so many ways.  So thankful for the friends and acquaintances we have developed.


     Youth need help understanding, if you stop and smell a rose, your life my garner more riches than you ever thought possible. Helping others comes with large  rewards, sooner or later, generally when not expected.


Monday, October 23, 2023

Hurray, It on Again

 Clearing bookcases, files, folders etc.  seems I filed data after a trip to Michigan that I could use now.

Located books I forgot I had. Packed a box for Brother and Sis in Id.. Box half packed for Liz. Hope to 

complete it Thursday.


Carpets shampooed Wednesday.  No word from Sis nothing, very concerning.  Missed our guest speaker 

today. She is a great speaker.  I wa.s sorting papers and books in patio,  many to dumpster hurray.. 


 We had a great breakfast at Club yesterday.  Wish they hired Charlie full time.  

  Need to renew my NEHGS Membership. Find my tree for publishing and start clearing up data.


I missed a Jones Reunion in September in Michigan.  Seems that is where Noyes brother went. At leas

t one of them. Sons birthday to day, I remember the day clearly about 4th trip to hospital. Hanford,Ca.

Need to see who winning in KS and in Philly.  football n baseball


Blessings all.



Friday, September 15, 2023

WONDERING WHY, HAVE YOU EVER DONE THE SAME?

        

        Randy's  on Wednesday was a  major event for many,  I suspect. Having been requesting 

genealogists to share data  all the time I have done genealogy and that has been at least 50 years.

Yes Mom indoctrinated me in as a youth.  Then First born near death and I had to cold call my in -laws

I had yet to meet and ask serious medical questions. Husband in situation he could not be reached.

Military. 

       I learned quickly they were awesome and the news they gave me helped to save our child.

Many years later we found Mom's line and theirs interlinked, 60 yrs later.  I believe it was third cousins

a way back shared kin.  BROWN.  

        At the meeting some members who've never attended any of my classes,  shared places and names 

 about areas I have researched and some been to with kin in.  Another now deceased member Virginia 

Taylor shared some of this area with me years ago..  She was also a cousin we learned about ten years 

before her leaving us.  

          Having also worked for the Golden Gate Forum by George Ferguson on AOL, having covered the 

Mid-Atlantic region for nearly 10 years for them. Yes,  my shelves have more information also.   

Much of my Mothers lines came from Maryland, Old Virginia and Pennsylvania.  

         I went to Pennsylvania in 1994. Spent two weeks with family kin that were as awesome as what

my Grandfather had always told me. His request to me was  <go to Greene Co. PA and meet, our family.>.

        Anxiously await to hear from new faces that I am sure one may link to mine.  One Guest did 

not share the name only the area.  That does not make genealogy grow.   The information is helpful

but having learned from some of the best Genealogists around, sharing is so vital to finding the "lost name 

in the plethora of names, places and times of the past."       An example is Pennsylvania's boundary 

changes over the years of development.  The government changed also over a period of time. The

 southwest region of the state was claimed by Virginia and changed in 1780's.  Also the same applied to

Maryland, they claimed about 50 miles up into Pennsylvania,  verses Pennsylvania claimed into . ,

 Maryland.  This being the reason for the Mason - Dixie Line which was done more than once to 

make all happier.

      Ohio was part of the early package on the west.  Much of my kin were in all three regions early. Of 

course , the government was expanding. originally Virginia claimed to the Mississippi River, and north to

 Iowa region etc..  More to follow just wish more attended classes.




Monday, September 11, 2023

FAMILY FACTS, UNKNOWN FACTS BY SOME, WHAT TO DO TO CORRECT SITUATION

 

 For some days now, I have been trying to deal with some very important information regarding 

Dad's family.  I thought all of Dad's siblings were aware of this family information regarding a

situation.  Sort of strange because Aunt Bethel knew, Uncle Gerald knew, always thought the closeness 

of  Bethel and Muriel, that A Muriel knew.  For their older sister to not know has left me nWe, I thought

were close.  No I was in HI when she passed I think.  Maybe she didn't think it important for 

children to know.. 

  Dad being the oldest witness this situation several times.  Our Grandparents divorced.  We all knew this.

I got a IN YOUR FACE EDUCATION by my Grandma and my Dad around midnight the week of my

 graduation.

   This started as topic about Dad and his siblings past,   Mom said.  I can tell you now it was the best 

thing to happen between, Gmom  and Dad. Much healing in his heart and hers came about and I saw it.


I am not going to post the whole story here, but some cousins need to be made aware that some things 

weren't as they seemed.  They missed getting to know a Grandfather with a college background, sent

to France to be a Chef.  He told me he married the woman he wanted to and would love her til death

took them away. That statement made July 1958 in Casper, Wyo. by him to our family. He never wanted 

the divorce.

  We found him with family help  and friends help in 1952.  He was in Casper Wyo. sick with pneumonia.

Something we learned he got to often.  He came to visit us and stayed for a period of time.  I thought

Aunt Etta had the boys over but many times when company come they were to busy. to tell family hi.


He would catch little Lucky's tears when he had a fit and say grabbing a glass, cup, jar , what ever was handy and put it up to his face. "We can't let them steers get away."  Lucky would immediately stop his tantrum or unhappiness,.It did not matter which. HE just stopped and looked at Grandpa.  What a clever 

thing for him to do.  He taught Mom to put some pineapple juice in Navy beans to remove the gas.  I still do it and it really cuts gas reaction. He taught us other neat things about being in the kitchen.O yes, never put lid on beans it keeps gas in system. Almost forgot that one.  He shared many hints with us.

He could make a leg of lamb be the tastiest piece of meat ever created.  I never could duplicate it.

We saw him last the same year 1958 in Casper when he again had pneumonia very very bad .

He cried when he told me about the divorce.  He never blamed Ida.  But he put much information 

about his Mother in Law as part of issue.  When he and Dad explained situation I could feel the pain.

He didn't dislike her either but some things allowed were not proper.   This so helped Dad and I to

 understand things better.  She Gmom did as taught not as appropriate for others.  

I was thrilled Dad could finally talk nice things about his Mom.  He did love her underneath.

She stayed I think with all her children in her last years and she lived in my home in Coronado in the

1966-7 time period.  Later in this house for 6 months after we bought and had come back from HI. 1970

Aunt Jennie was very ill with cancer and she rotated to Uncle Gerald's (Jerry) and here per stress

and be here as her son needed her support.


I can not talk of some of the past but Aunt Bethel,  suffered much as others did.  She told me many times 

her Dad never hurt any of them and tried to help often but she (G) was upset and did not want the children to have any help but hers even when Bethel had no shoes and Etta no coat in 33 degree weather. Which.. caused Dad to dislike the pain his siblings had to endure.   I was  glad Dad and her were on decent terms

when she passed.  He truly felt bad at all they missed due to attitude.  Yes by more than one I suspect it was affecting all.


Sometimes pride can harm the best of Situations.