Posted Today for footnoteMaven’s annual blog caroling tradition from genealogy bloggers around the world! You can still join in until tomorrow, December 22nd. More details are here at her blog. FM’S TRADITION OF BLOG CAROLING – 2017 In his career, crooner Bing Crosby sang many memorable Christmas songs, including “White Christmas” which he first sang in…
The arrival of the Sears Wishbook and the JC Penney Christmas catalog was almost as exciting of Christmas day itself. If you grew up in the 1970’s like me, you’ll understand what I mean. I was astonished to read recently that these catalogs came out in August of every year. I didn’t remember that. Mom…
If you were a little girl growing up in the 1970’s, chances are very high that you played with a Dawn doll. I found this *photo on Pinterest and was wacked up-side the head with nostalgia. I hadn’t thought about Dawn and her friends in a very long time. I had Dawn (far left) and…
This is a continuing blog thread on my ancestor, David Edgar Chase and the on-going answers I find on the mystery of his death at age 47 in 1900 by a self-inflicted gunshot wound. To read my first entry on David, click here. What we do know about David is that from 1887 to 1890…
#RootsTech is running a Photo Story Competition and I feel like I could fill up my blog with past and present photos. Here is the latest. This grainy, creased photo could tell a hundred stories. It was 1978. My youngest brother had finally gotten his life together and joined the Air Force. He was stationed in New Jersey…
#RootsTech is running a Photo Story Competition and I feel like I could fill up my blog with past and present photos. I’ll be sharing more, but here is one. My grandmother, Jeanette, always compared herself to her older sister, Merah. She wrote in her journal, “Merah was small and dainty and I was chubby and plain looking….