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Sunday, April 04, 2010

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

April has some birthdays of significance to me and the first of these is
today! My Aunt Dorothy, my Dad's younger sister, is celebrating hers
today. Longtime readers of my blog will recall that it was Aunt Dot who
got me started on genealogy by sending us copies of her research years
ago. They helped me when I began my own research online.

She also wrote out a thirteen page memoir of growing up with my Dad
up in Oxford County Maine during the Depression. And two years ago
she gave me the West Family Bible.

I won't say which birthday this is (a gentleman never discusses a lady's
age!) but it isn't relevant in Aunt Dot's case because she's very active
and often cares for a very energetic group of great grandchildren.

So thank you, Aunt Dorothy, and may you have many many more
Happy Birthdays!

7 comments:

Heather Wilkinson Rojo said...

A very sweet post! Every family needs someone like Aunt Dot to keep the stories going!

Unknown said...

You have been awarded the Ancestor Approved award for your great work on your genealogy blog...please stop by my blog and pick up the award (by right clicking on it and saving it to a .jpg) and then post the below information with the picture, using the format I used when receiving it.

The Ancestor Approved Award asks that the recipient list ten things you have learned about any of your ancestors that has surprised, humbled, or enlightened you and pass the award along to ten other bloggers who you feel are doing their ancestors proud. Here are the 10 things I have learned from my ancestors.

Lisa Swanson Ellam said...

Bill - you have been awarded the Ancestor Approved award for your great work on your genealogy blog...please stop by my blog and pick up the award and then post the below information using the format I used when receiving it.

The Ancestor Approved Award asks that the recipient list ten things you have learned about any of your ancestors that has surprised, humbled, or enlightened you and pass the award along to ten other bloggers who you feel are doing their ancestors proud. Here are the 10 things I have learned from my ancestors.

Terri O'Connell said...

I am passing the Ancestor Approved Award to you, you can pick it up at http://researchingoconnells.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/ancestor-approved/

Mary said...

Bill,
I really enjoy your blog, and I just nominated for the Ancestor Approved Award. You can pick it up here. http://meandmyancestors.blogspot.com/2010/04/ancestor-approved-award.html

Mary said...

Now I see you have been nominated before. I tried to look at all the blogs first so not to repeat the award but I didn't look at the comments. I should have know you be hit!.

Heather Wilkinson Rojo said...

Well, I nominated you for the Ancestor Approved Award, too, on NutfieldGenealogy this morning. It seems that you already have a nice crop of admirers! Congrats!