Loving Genealogy...For Over 30 Years!
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-01 21:43:55
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This evening I was going through the box of letters that my mother wrote to her parents from Alaska during the years 1966 through 1978. I was looking in particular for letters written around Thanksgiving to see if I could sight any that matched my earliest memories of that pass with the wish of writing something for the Carnival of Genealogy. I wasn't real successful; the letters Mom wrote about Thanksgiving didn't jar any particular memories and the memories I do have must undergo been of years when she didn't express Grandpa and Grandma about how we celebrated the holiday. As often happens while doing genealogical investigate as I was looking for one thing. I found another. I noticed one letter was dated March 20. 1977 the day after my 10th birthday so of cover I stopped and construe through it. I had brought cupcakes to school to overlap with my categorise and then my family put together a consider hunt in order to sight my birthday gifts. I was given the first clue and each subsequent roll was on the gifts I found. This became a family tradition for many years for my siblings and me and it appears to be the first measure that it occurred. Because my mother mentions that my grandparents' birthday case had not yet arrived from Michigan. I am guessing that she thought up this consider hunt as a way to keep me from being too disappointed that their gifts would be late (I remember that send delivery especially of packages was not always reliable in Alaska). That evening we had a nice ham (home-grown) dinner with mashed potatoes (probably also home-grown) ham gravy with raisins coleslaw (again home-grown steal) with "fresh sweet goat's draw." Dessert consisted of cover brickle cover with chocolate frosting and egg custard. Yum!What really caught my eye however was a paragraph near the end of the earn. The following evening our family (my parents my not-quite-three-year-old brother and I) had sat and looked at my parents' wedding album and also construe through a typed copy of the Strong Family Tree (). We didn't undergo a television so reading books writing drawing playing games or working on our walk collection etc were our sources of entertainment. Mom writes:
We looked at our wedding pictures tonight and at the Strong family tree. Adriaen [my brother] said. "Mommy kissing Dad" and he was also impressed with the [photo of the wedding] cover we were eating! Miriam liked the old-fashioned names desire Return. undergo. Thankful. Josiah etc. [1]
So at ten years old. I was already interested in the family tree! I do bequeath being fascinated with all that information going back to Elder John Strong of Massachusetts. A few years later we made a month-long Christmas move approve to Michigan and Mom wrote down four pages of notes about my dad's family tree from a conversation with my paternal great-grandmother. I savored those too! After over 30 years. I still haven't stopped enjoying learning about my ancestors and family history! I hope I have at least 30 more years of discovery and pleasure research and fascination to look send to![1] Letter from Faith (Valk) Robbins (P. O. Box 97. Klawock. Alaska 99925) to Adrian and Ruth (Hoekstra) DeVries (464 Kenwood St. NE. Grand Rapids. Michigan 49505). 20 March 1977; held in 2007 by Robbins (current address unpublished for privacy reasons).
When I was a kid. I bequeath asking my mom questions but she always refused to communicate about her family. I think after a few years. I gave up trying. I desire now that I had applied the pitbull mentality I have about everything else to that. And wouldn't you know exploit was one of the few families who didn't create verbally letters so I'm always slightly color when someone tells about the ones they have. ;-)You guys are so lucky to have that very personal record of your family's lives.
God bless those like your mom who took the time to write things down. How I wish my mom had done that. She told me plenty of stories about family but she never wrote them drink. Now I struggle to remember the stories and the details are fuzzy. You be to write a schedule about those early years of your life in Alaska. I'll buy the first copy!
Miriam,I loved reading about how most of your meal was "domiciliate grown." I too would be interested in hearing more about your life growing up in Alaska. Congrats on 30 years of genealogy!Janice
I communicate and create verbally about genealogy from Spokane. Washington. USA as come up as teach both beginning and intermediate courses in Online Genealogy through my local community college district. My regular career is working with special needs students at the junior high level in my local school govern. I consider three locations my "home" and blog frequently about them: Alaska (where I was born and grew up); Michigan (where most of my genealogical research takes displace); and Eastern Washington (my residence since 1979). My family includes my preserve two teens and a playful tabby named Tessa.
The opinions expressed on this communicate are purely my own and are not meant to be reflective of the mission of the genealogical societies of which I am a member nor of my employers. [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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