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Wednesday, December 26, 2007

GENEALOGY RESOLUTIONS FOR 2008

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Well, it’s that time of year when folks make New Year’s r esolutions and we genealogy bloggers are busy making our lists. So here’s mine. On...
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BLOGGING BRUNCH 14

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I’m getting spoiled! Another day of sleeping in late. So as I usually do on days off, I started the day with breakfast at the computer and b...

THE CALM AFTER THE STORM

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Well, Christmas is over and calm settles upon the land. Or at least a reasonable facsimile thereof. More like exhaustion? I worked at the bo...
Saturday, December 22, 2007

CHRISTMAS EVES

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Christmas Eve was sometimes hectic in our family, especially those years when we lived in Dorchester, because Mom and Dad would drive around...
Thursday, December 20, 2007

FROM ANGELIC TO AMOK

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Janice over at Cow Hampshire has up funny videos starring some of the genealogy blogging community. I’m in the middle of a snowball fight wi...
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IT'S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR

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Every Christmas Mom would break out the Andy Williams Christmas Album to play on the stereo. There was also a Nat King Cole album and a Mitc...
Wednesday, December 19, 2007

BLOGGING BRUNCH13

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The 38th Carnival of Genealogy is up over at Jasia’s Creative Gene blog and the topic is Y2k. Between the Cog and Tom MacEntee’s Advent Cale...
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THE HONORABLE DISCHARGE OF FLOYD E. WEST, Sr.

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My earlier post was on the Enlistment document of my grandfather Floyd Earl West Sr. Thanks to my Aunt Dot I have a copy of it and also his ...
Monday, December 17, 2007

ENLISTMENT RECORD OF FLOYD E. WEST SR.

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I mentioned back in July that Aunt Dot and I exchanged some family research at my nephew Paul’s wedding. One of the items she gave me was he...

STOCKING STUFF-ERS

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It’s been a long time since the last time my Christmas stocking was hung up for Santa. When I was small we didn’t have a fireplace so I’m no...

FURLOUGH2

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Here’s the other two parts of my grandfather Floyd E. West Sr.’s WW1 furlough papers for Nov.30th-Dec 10th, 1918 to visit his family back up...
Sunday, December 16, 2007

FURLOUGH1

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These are images of the WWI furlough papers issued to my grandfather, Floyd E. West Sr. that were sent to me from my Au...
Thursday, December 13, 2007

I WAS THE GRINCH'S HENCHMAN

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As I mentioned in an earlier post, I once worked several years for a New England based toy store chain. At the end of the Christmas Party my...
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THE HAUNTED FRUITCAKE

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Ah, fruitcake! The food. The Myth. The Legend. We’ve never had any of the perpetual fruitcakes hanging about for weeks or months in our fami...
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A JOKER IN THE FAMILY TREE?

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Randy Seaver’s post about the databases at the LDS Family Search Record Search site prompted me to make a return trip over there. I ran sear...

BLOG CAROLING

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f ootnoteMaven started a round of blog caroling so I thought I'd be the first genealogy blogger (I hope) to take up the challenge. Here...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Y2K

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Back in the 1980’s I began thinking about the approaching millennium. It was cool that barring the unforeseen I was going to enter a new cen...

CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENT

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As far as I can recall, none of the family ever attended a professional entertainment event during the holidays. I’m sure there were school...
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THE VALUE OF A COMPASS

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Alright, as promised, here's the article about my 3x great grandfather John Cutter West and two friends being lost in the woods. Double ...
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BEDTIME GENEALOGY 18

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I had to take a break from the Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories Carnival because to be completely honest, I didn’t have anything to p...