http://allmyancestors.com/blog Tales of my ancestors and my adventures searching for them Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:15:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Saturday we had a customer who came in, thrilled to have found us because her husband was in town at a meeting and she needed a diversion.  She hadn't brought her notes because she hadn't known of our existence.   She knew of some American Indian history in her family and the ... http://allmyancestors.com/blog/2008/07/02/john-smith-researching-a-common-name/ This post is written in respnse to Miriam Midkiff's prompt at her AnceStories2 site. I have bad teeth. Who knows why?  My dad had terrible teeth--he said they were "chalky."  Supposedly he didn't assimilate calcium.  I don't know who made that diagnosis but I do know he didn't have good teeth.  He ... http://allmyancestors.com/blog/2008/06/25/dental-health-family-adventures-and-memories/ Check it out--high-tech tombstones in Japan can provide photos and audio clips to a cell phone. http://allmyancestors.com/blog/2008/06/06/barcodes-on-tombstones/ As I've said here before, I grew up in the Texas panhandle. Needless to say, the region is not known for its recreational water spots. Here's my mom on an outing with her girlfriends--they're wading--barely. This is about the extent of the water in the area of the panhandle ... http://allmyancestors.com/blog/2008/05/31/swimsuit-edition-bathing-beauties-in-the-family/ Yesterday I wrote about finding the Missing Crew Reports of the U.S. Army Air Forces at Footnote. These are evidently called MACRs in the lingo of the day. My great-uncle Lloyd Crabtree was a prisoner at Stalag I at Barth from the time of his plane ... http://allmyancestors.com/blog/2008/05/27/researching-wwii-b-17s-and-pows-online/ This is my great Uncle Lloyd. I feel so fortunate to have gotten to get acquainted with him in the last years of his life. I'd always heard about Uncle Lloyd who'd done a stint in a prison camp during the war. But he and Aunt ... http://allmyancestors.com/blog/2008/05/26/2nd-lt-lloyd-g-crabtree/ Everything's up to date in Kansas City, y'know. It really is a great conference. I've spent some of the time working in the OHS booth which is great fun--I love discussing their Oklahoma relatives with folks. So far, my best find came from the goodie bag with a copy of Everton's ... http://allmyancestors.com/blog/2008/05/14/notes-from-ngs-in-kc/ Since I've gone to work at a place where I look up other people's relatives in the census on a daily basis, I've been amazed at the institutions that are enumerated, and the information found within. I learn something new every time I find one of these. I've ... http://allmyancestors.com/blog/2008/05/04/census-notes/ Today Kim Powell at About.com:Genealogy addresses the "our name was changed at Ellis Island" myth in her most excellent column..  She address 4 of the common family myths in an earlier article entitled "Family Legends--Fact or Fiction?"--the 3 brothers, the Indian Princess, name change at Ellis Island, and the family ... http://allmyancestors.com/blog/2008/04/30/family-myths/ It was a 1963 Chevrolet Impala SuperSport convertible, with a 409 engine. It was navy blue with a baby blue interior. I think the top was white. I suppose as a female I shouldn't have cared much about cars. But I did. I had a ... http://allmyancestors.com/blog/2008/03/31/i-loved-that-car/