The P.I.

In the early 1960’s I was in my mid-30's and working as a junior high school band director in Carpentersville IL,  a suburb 40 miles northwest of Chicago.  Like many music teachers I, for fun and extra income, played in a small combo for dances, parties, weddings, Bar Mitzvahs and what...
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Interesting things I did on the way to and from School

Bill tells us how he walked to School in the 1920's in Laura South Australia, and how he wasn't allowed to walk past the hotel on his way home.
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Father's Day - We all have great Fathers

With seven of us kids in the family we all thought that we had the best Dad in the world. Our Father’s name was Herman. While we lived in a place called Steptoe we had to get all our water from a pipe line that had several spigots along the line...
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John Clarence Blackham History

John Clarence Blackham History
JOHN CLARENCE BLACKHAM (Uncle to Ernest LaMont Blackham – Siblings of Grandpa Ern)        John Clarence (Clair)  Blackham (my Great Uncle) was born to Samuel and Annie Blackham, September 22, 1895 in Moroni, Utah. He married Eulala Anne Justensen late in life at the age of 63 in Ruth,...
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My School Kindergarten Substitute Picture

My School Kindergarten Substitute Picture
  Click here if you want to see & hear the Talking Picture Story --  or read the story below.   Karen - 5 years old This was a picture taken when I was a little girl in my home town in Moroni, Utah.  I started Kindergarten in 1954 - we...
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Early Settlement of Murray, Utah

This historical content is documented from articles contained within Wikipedia-the free encyclopedia.

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Hermannus (Herman) Thiessens--Our Common Ancestor

Hermannus (Herman) Thiessens--Our Common Ancestor
Hermannus Thiessens aka Herman Thiessens was born December 12, 1876, the third son of Antoon Thiessens and Willemke de Jong in Groningen city, Groningen province, The Netherlands.  He was, by profession, a furniture maker. He married (1) Hendrikje (Reka) Mulder on November 1, 1900 in Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands who was the...
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Childhood Games

Childhood Games
In the days before television (and when the radio was a luxury) children played games indoors and out. Margaret recalls the games she played at home in the evenings during the 1930s and 1940s in Linclon, UK. The picture shows Paper Dolls - of Princess Elizabeth (now Queen Elizabeth) and her...
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Coming to America

My distant relative came from Cartmel Parish Northumberland England in or about 1685.  He was a Quaker.  He lived in the area of Woodbridge NJ near the Delaware River.  According to other published stories he was a frequent visitor and guest of the Lenape Indians who lived in the area.  He...
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Strike Up The Band

Strike Up The Band
In the Spring of 1953 it seemed the Korean Police Action was going to go on forever with “Peace Talks” bogging down on who should sit on which side of the table, what shape the table should be, and where the talks should take place.   It had degenerated into a “Which...
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Cemetery Information

Barry J. Ewell's Blog on Genealogy - My GenShare.com enables individuals to learn many things regarding genealogy.  This series is his 86 part series on Cemeteries.  

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Road Trip

The Month of May was full of Genealogy fun with my Mother and looking for her Great Grandfather Creed Wilson. This month theme really ties in well with this trip we mande. The whole trip was based around genealogy. It seems like the womans side of a family really gets the...
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I am a Genealogical Mutt....

Well they say we American's are the true mutts of the genealogical world and after today I know I am.  I knew of my French and English and Irish and Scottish and American Indian  lineage... well today, digging around on my paternal grandfather's line - I get to add Dutch and...
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Family Meals

Family Meals
Margaret grew up in Lincoln, England during the 1930 and 40's. Here she recalls family meals.
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Family Meals

Bill Corey grew up in Tarlee, South Australia. In this short reminiscence Bill talks about family meals.
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The Lietenant Colonel - My Grandfather, on Memorial Day

The Lietenant Colonel - My Grandfather, on Memorial Day
This is my mother's writing about her hero - her father. On this Memorial Day, I can't get him out of my head. Love you, Grandaddy. You are a hero to all of us. "George Charles Shields, Jr. is the father of Catherine M. (Shields) Keller. I am she! I want...
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A Good Time with Music Friends

A Good Time with Music Friends
This special day began typically for March in Ohio, gray with blowing rain against the window panes.  How I wished the sun would pop out from behind the clouds. Today is the occasion for honoring a good friend and mentor for many of the musicians in our city.  Our friend Harriet...
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Show Your Friends The Trail With Google Earth

Show Your Friends The Trail With Google Earth
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Geography of the Past If it is true that a picture is worth 10,000 words, then the catalog of satellite photos in the archives of the Footloose Forester could develop into a longish travelogue. There is...
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My Childhood Home - Peterborough, South Australia

I grew up in a railway town called Peterborough in the outback of South Australia. Times were far different then and this story testifies to that.  
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My Home

My name is Alice Domagalski. I lived most of my married life in a place called Edilillie on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. We were not too far from Port Lincoln where my husband Stan and I turned an old blacksmith's shop into a home and a farm over a...
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