As noted in the post before this, I love History Detectives and watching the latest season has inspired me to transcribe a tape I made of my uncle this past April. It was a 45 minute interview, I’m on page 18, and I think I’m about halfway through the tape, finally. It’s taking a lot [...]
Posts Tagged ‘genealogy’
Genetic interests?
Posted in genealogy, tagged genealogy, genetics, grandpa, intellect, pop on July 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
History Detectives – the cure for the genealogy blues…
Posted in genealogy, tagged genealogy, History Detectives, motivation on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been seriously working on my genealogy for nine years. The past few, I’ve been in and out of fervor. If a wall ends up being bricked, that’s a downer (last year.) A new record with new info, that’s a motivator. I taped my 78 year old uncle two months ago and got some new [...]
Another favorite things for a rainy day…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged favorite things, genealogy, instrumentals on April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s dull and gloomy outside…time once again to brighten my day with another edition of favorite things…
The instrumental edition of Bob Stroud’s Rock and Roll Roots on WDRV (the Drive) I’ve always loved instrumental songs. Listening today, I noticed that a lot of the guitar gods base their instrumentals on classical music – Khachaturian’s Sabre [...]
Saint Patrick’s rebirth
Posted in genealogy, tagged Cedar Rapids, flooding, genealogy on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
June 2008: U. S. Coast Guard Petty Officer First Class Don Smith of St. Louis pilots a boat past St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Cedar Rapids during the Cedar River flooding (the river is two or three blocks to the right).
This is what St. Patrick’s looked like last June. I saw this picture and [...]
A tribute to a grand Irishman, John Farrell
Posted in genealogy, tagged Benton County, genealogy, st patricks day on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On Saint Patrick’s Day, I like to toast my Irish ancestors. Today, it’s great great grandpa John Farrell, who came to the US around 1848 from Kilkenny County Ireland. He landed in New Orleans, met up at some point there with my great great grandma Bridget Kelly, and married her in Vicksburg, Mississippi in January [...]
Mourning what will never be…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged genealogy, grandma on January 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A get-together at the Farrell home July 3, 1952. Pat Farrell, Mary Farrell, Helen Krueger, Maryann Farrell and Grace Gerber. Front: John Farrell, Mugs the dog and Anton Gerber (This gathering may be a birthday party for the unseen king of the roost, newly 53-year-old Leo T. Farrell.)
Seeing this picture today, which I have [...]
What genealogy is all about…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged genealogy on July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I saw this article today:
http://www.wowowow.com/post/sheila-nevins-letter-great-aunt-triangle-shirtwaist-fire-personal-memoir-62433
The topic – what would you say/write to a relative that’s no longer here? Once someone starts thinking about that, a ton of unanswered questions occur. What did the person think about? How did they react to something that may have occurred before you were even born? Someone who died [...]
Worried…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cedar Rapids, genealogy on June 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I live in Chicago, but for the past eight years or so, my “other” hometown city has been Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Eight years ago, I really started working with the genealogy information I received as a teenager from my great aunts on my dad’s side of the family. And one of the first things I [...]
Sweet Land
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged genealogy on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I saw a review for this movie awhile back, but never got around to watching it until now. It’s an independent movie about a mail-order bride who comes to rural Minnesota around 1920 or so. Because she is German, which the groom-to-be somehow didn’t know, the small community is extremely prejudiced against her. She has [...]
