While this trip had some diversion, I am still ready to go home. There is so much I want to do at home. The diversion was our hunter, his wife and granddaughter were here for the weekend. He was planting "deer crops" down in his hunting area. I don't know how he thinks they are going to grow - we still aren't getting rain. And if the hogs come up from the creek - they crops will be gone.
Yesterday we went to the fellowship hall at the church to buy the book. It made me realize that I am really related to so many people up here. I had forgotten I was related to this guy too! I should have known.
That got me to close down the research I was doing on G's family and go back to mine. It has been a while since I have looked at the research, and now that I am more familiar with and know more people, I was amazed at all those I knew. For a girl who was an only child - I am finding I have a huge extended family.
I was even more surprised when I was looking at my grandmother and family. It was a surprise to learn that I had another aunt who died in 1936. That I learned when Dad was alive and talked about her. She was named Florence, and so was my Grandmother. I thought he was talking about his mother. Nope it was his sister.
Ancestry is opening up new files now - especially the 1940 census. There I discovered that I had another cousin. She was born in 1929. I have no idea where she might possibly be now. Her dad was from Washington, and I am thinking after Florence died, they moved back there. Needless to say, I was blown away.
So I have spent a lot of time working on organizing embroidery files and on ancestry things. I have gotten some books out that are here again. I also read Warren's autobiography. He states that it was written from the heart, and it was. It is his words. Some things could have been stated differently - I am not sure there was a proof-reader. But when you figure that German was his first language, and he didn't speak English regularly until 1941 when they were forced to speak English at school, he did a good job. Errors are easily made when there isn't a proof-reader!
Today will be laundry and cleaning out mess from being here. Love it. (NOT) As I said, the "joy" of having two houses is cleaning two houses. I have never been one who just loved cleaning. If I could afford it, I would hire someone to come in. It's tough being cheap and not a house cleaning fool!
4 comments:
I used to embroidery all the time...need to get back to it..
I do love the searching on Ancestory.com. I even did other people's families because after 40 years--mine is finished.
Someone did a mini search for my husbands family a while ago. It was interesting what they found!
You are making me wish I hadn't cancelled Ancestry. Isn't it great when you have a new lead to follow? I learned on Find a grave not long ago where my great grandfather died. I always assumed it was in a town with a hospital.
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