A Wedding In The Yard.

No fancy backgrounds in the 1930's for my grandparents wedding, here the extended family, friends and dogs gather in their back yard for a happy group photo.

Scrapbooking - Sweet Memories

Scrapbooking - Names and Trains

 

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New Year and New Goals

With the start of the new year I have been taking restocks of where I want to go with my blogs. I'm not good with resolutions so I've just decided to make some frameworks of goals for 2012 for each of my blogs and every few months I'll review where I am in trying to achieve them.

In my family history I've got several areas I'd like to achieve or at least get further on, these are;

1) Organize - I need to find a way of sorting out all my papers, certificates and photos. I also want to scan the photos I've got in to the computer and put them on a disk so that I've got digital copies of everything.

2) Collect more memories - I should have learned the lesson by now that when I've lost people I've also like as not lost many of their precious memories. I've got albums of old family photos found when clearing out my grandparents house, with sadly very little info on the people hidden within them. I want to talk to the older members of my family now and try to collect their stories, they deserve not to be lost.

3) Brick walls and Service records - Make some headway with some of my family brick walls, such as my shady lady Hepzibah Hicken, who keeps disappearing on me. Also try to find out more about my Great Grandfather's service records.

4) Scrapbooking - Carry on making scrapbooks of my family and heritage

5) Cemeteries - I've long had an interested in cemeteries, I want to carry on researching my locals ones and try to find some more of the finial resting places of my own family. In the continuing effort to simplify my blogs I've now incorporated my Cemetery-Ology blog into this one.

6) Spread information around the family - Next Yule I want to give a family tree to each of side of my family.

7) Blogging - Get more involved in the blogging community and blog at least once a week.

Wishing everyone a

Wonderfully Creative 

2012

A Poem for Christmas

All I Want For Christmas Is A New Surname

Dear Santa: Don't bring me new dishes,

I don't need a new kind of game.

Genealogists have peculiar wishes

For Christmas I just want a surname.

A new washing machine would be great,

But it's not the desire of my life.

I've just found an ancestor's birth date;

What I need now is the name of his wife.

My heart doesn't yearn for a ring

That would put a real diamond to shame.

What I want is a much cheaper thing;

Please give me Mary's last name.

To see my heart singing with joy,

Don't bring me a real leather suitcase,

Bring me a genealogist's toy;

a surname with dates and a place.

(author unknown)