Carnival of Genealogy 2011 Swimsuit Issue

Well in the 2010 Swimsuit issue of the Carnival of Genealogy I said I was looking for a picture of me at the lake in a swimsuit, and I found it! It only has three of us and was taken in August of 1958 when I was 10. It was taken in front of the lake property of the McDonalds, May and Bus. Bus ran the Western Auto store about a half mile from our home in Spokane, and both May and Bus had went to school with my mom so we had known them a long time.

As I said last year my parents bought property on Upper Twin Lake in north Idaho and built a cabin there. Bus and May had a cabin on Lower Twin Lake, and Upper and Lower Twin were connected by a channel about 30 feet wide. I remember when I was pretty young we all got in our boat and headed to see Bus and May. Our boat was an early row boat with a 7.5 horse motor and with all four of us we could only do about 5 or 6 miles an hour. When we were in the channel heading for the lower lake, we met a ski boat pulling a water skier, and that boat went on one side of us and the skier on the other side as we ducked so not to get caught in the ski rope. Not to long after that the county put a speed limit of 5 miles an hour in the channel, so no more skiers in the channel.

Saturday Night Fun Find A Grave

Hey genea-searchers, it's SATURDAY NIGHT ... time for more GENEALOGY FUN!!!

Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:

1) Go to the Find-a-Grave website (www.findagrave.com) and search for ancestors that you don't know the burial location of. How far back in time did you have to go to find this person? Hint #1 - use your ancestor list to help you. Hint #2 - don't forget to use the last surname for females!

2) If you think that Find-a-Grave will not have your persons of interest, then check another burial index that might help you.

3) Tell us about your search - who did you look for, and who was the first ancestor that you found that you did not have a burial location for previously? Write your own blog post, or make a comment on this post.


Well I missed last weeks Saturday Night Fun so this one seemed to be easy. I started with my Dillinghams:
Enos Dillingham died 12 June 1876 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine
His wife Clarissa Virgin Dillingham died 25 May 1853 (I think Dixfield also)
Melatiah Dillingham died 9 March 1833 in Dixfield
His wife Elizabeth Chandler Dillingham died 19 Aug 1852
Melatiah and his wife Elizabeth were in Find a Grave at Eustis Cemetery in Dixfield. I kind of figured they might be as Elizabeth is a descendant of three Mayflower people.
I also looked for Enos Chandler father of Elizabeth above and he died 25 May 1785, and he was a lieutenant in the Revolution.
His wife Elizabeth Soule Chandler died 18 Apr 1834, but neither of these two are on Find A Grave

Saturday Night Fun Broken Blogger

Hey genea-philes - it's Saturday Night - time for lots more Genealogy Fun!!

Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:

1) We all know that Blogger (www.blogspot.com) was down for 20 hours from Thursday afternoon to Friday morning. What did you do with yourself during that time period?

2) If we lost our blogging platforms for awhile (but not the Internet as a whole), what would you do with your genealogy time? What projects would you start, continue working on, or try to finish instead of blogging?

Well I tried Blogger several times and finally went to inputting information for the Washington State Digital Archives. I started helping digitize the records in the Eastern Washington Archives years ago, and then we were sent a paper copy to digitize and send back, but today we have a split screen with the field to be filled in on the right and the record on the left. While it is supposed to work better on IE, it works better on my computer using Firefox.

52 Weeks to Personal Genealogy Weather

Well Spokane has four seasons, but since we are 300 miles from the ocean, no hurricanes, and the mountains close by limit tornadoes. We are in the dry part of Washington so we do not get a lot of rain, about 15 inches a year mostly in the winter months as snow, but some years we do get a lot more snow. 2008 and 2009 were record amounts, but the winter I really remember was 1968-69.
I had just started my first year at Washington State University in Pullman. My parents had bought an Airstream travel trailer and I was living in it at the University Trailer court just down the hill from the university, but close enough to walk to classes each day. When it started to snow they just kept predicting occasional snow, and it just kept coming. Most years around here we get snow and then a thaw and a bunch melts before the next snow, but in 68-69 it just kept piling up as it was pretty cold that winter also. By mid January we had close to 4 feet of snow on the ground, and the coldest temperature ever recorded in Pullman -33 degrees (this was before wind chill so actual temperature). When it got that cold the pressure regulator in the back of the Airstream froze. The Airstream dealer had a new one so I asked my uncle if he could install the new one (he was a plumber). He did get it in and I learned that I needed to leave the closet door and the cabinet door in the bathroom open and then warm air could circulate around the pipes in the back of the Airstream.
I had a week off between semesters but my last final was from 4-6 p.m. and so I decided I would stay the night and head for Spokane first thing in the morning. When I woke up the next morning I could hardly believe my eyes. We got about 8 more inches of snow, but it had drifted as high as I had piled the snow when I dug out my car, so just the top of my brown car was showing above the snow drift. I turned on the TV and they said the road out of Pullman was closed by a 60 foot high snow drift and it took them two days to dig that out.
I did get home, but the trip to Spokane was fun. I was not in a big hurry and the road was icy in places so when a big Greyhound bus passed me and then fishtailed up the hill by St. John I slowed down even more. When I got to Spokane you could barley see other cars on the street corners so soon everyone had an orange Union 76 ball on their radio antenna.
University trailer court was in a flood plain for the Palouse River, so with all that snow I was worried when it melted I would be under water. The Palouse River close to the trailer park looked to me like a small creek, it was about 6 feet wide and a about 6 inches deep most of the time. We were lucky though as the snow melted slowly that year and we did not flood. I stayed there a couple of more years and never got flooded, but the year after I left they had about 4 feet of water where my trailer had been, glad I missed that.

1962 Seattle Worlds Fair Day 13

These are a group of postcards of the Seattle Worlds Fair and this is the last of my Seattle Worlds Fair posts, thanks for all the comments so far.

Interior of Coliseum 21 and Night view of U.S. Science Pavilion

Space Needle through arches of the Science Pavilian

Night view of Information Booth

Coliseum 21 at night and International Fountain

View of Seattle and Worlds Fair at night and Canadian Exhibit at Night

Space Needle and US Science Pavilion at night

1962 Seattle Worlds Fair Day 12

This first picture is the skyride and the ticket and souvenir of the ride. It allowed you to see most of the Worlds Fair without walking, and the fair took a lot of walking.

The next two photos are of the International Fountain.

1962 Seattle Worlds Fair Day 11

Everyone knows about the Space Needle from the Worlds Fair, but Seattle also got the Alweg Monorail, but it only goes 1 mile and as such it is just mainly for tourists.

Saturday Night Fun Problem Report

Hey genea-philes (that's Kathryn Doyle's Twitter/Facebook moniker), it's Saturday Night -- time for more Genealogy Fun!

Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:

1) Open your genealogy software program (on your computer or online), and use the Help function to determine how to make a "Problem Report" or "Data Error Report" (or something similar).

2) Create a "Problem Report" or "Data Error Report" in your software for the persons in your tree (either everyone in the tree, or for a selected number of generations of your ancestors.

3) Tell us what type of problems or errors that your report found. Tell us how many errors were found. Tell us what problem or error surprised you.

Well Ancestor Quest has always had an easy possible problem report, and while many are correct even though the program thinks there is a problem, looks like I need to do a little work to check a few of these on this list.

Possible Problems Report
RIN Name Problem
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287 SCHOPP, Mary Jean Age between husband and wife is greater than 20 years in marriage(s):
MRIN: 120
293 LARSON, Gordon Randolph Age between husband and wife is greater than 20 years in marriage(s):
MRIN: 120
299 KINGSBURY, Evilo Charline Age between husband and wife is greater than 20 years in marriage(s):
MRIN: 121
353 CHILGREN, Judge Albert Was not between 16 and 50 when children were born in marriage(s):
MRIN: 155
530 MADDUX, Walter Was not between 16 and 50 when children were born in marriage(s):
MRIN: 215
577 WILLIAMS, Mary Was not between 16 and 45 when children were born in marriage(s):
MRIN: 233
578 FORSYTH, Robert J. Was not between 16 and 50 when children were born in marriage(s):
MRIN: 233
697 VANDERPOOL, Dona Was not between 16 and 45 when children were born in marriage(s):
MRIN: 235
698 KEITH, Bessie Age between husband and wife is greater than 20 years in marriage(s):
MRIN: 236
754 DILLINGHAM, Edward Was not between 16 and 50 when children were born in marriage(s):
MRIN: 312
781 COBB, Mercy Age between husband and wife is greater than 20 years in marriage(s):
MRIN: 319
782 DOTEN, Samuel Was not between 16 and 50 when children were born in marriage(s):
MRIN: 319
782 DOTEN, Samuel Age between husband and wife is greater than 20 years in marriage(s):
MRIN: 319
790 DILLINGHAM, John Was not between 16 and 50 when children were born in marriage(s):
MRIN: 320
840 LOE, John Was not between 16 and 50 when children were born in marriage(s):
MRIN: 336
888 COOK, Mary Ellen Birth date is later than marriage date in marriage(s):
MRIN: 342
888 COOK, Mary Ellen Was not between 16 and 45 when children were born in marriage(s):
MRIN: 342
928 DREES, Margaretha Adelheid Was not between 16 and 45 when children were born in marriage(s):
MRIN: 356
940 DOTY, John Was not between 16 and 50 when children were born in marriage(s):
MRIN: 361
944 DOTY, Edward Was not between 16 and 50 when children were born in marriage(s):
MRIN: 365
962 , Richardene Was not between 16 and 45 when children were born in marriage(s):
MRIN: 374
963 CURTIS, Thomas Death date is before child's birth date.
981 HOLMES, Mercy Was not between 16 and 45 when children were born in marriage(s):
MRIN: 382
1022 LETTICE, Elizabeth Age between husband and wife is greater than 20 years in marriage(s):
MRIN: 364
1026 PEDERSEN, Jorgen Was not between 16 and 50 when children were born in marriage(s):
MRIN: 386
1033 NIELSDATTER, Birthe Catherine Age between husband and wife is greater than 20 years in marriage(s):
MRIN: 390
1034 RASMUSEN, Peder Age between husband and wife is greater than 20 years in marriage(s):
MRIN: 390
1061 BRANNAM, Kessiah Rebecca Was not between 16 and 45 when children were born in marriage(s):
MRIN: 336
1082 EASTER, Cora Myrtle Age between husband and wife is greater than 20 years in marriage(s):
MRIN: 408
1083 JONES, William Edward Birth date is later than marriage date in marriage(s):
MRIN: 408
1083 JONES, William Edward Age between husband and wife is greater than 20 years in marriage(s):
MRIN: 408
1087 MULKINS, Ellis Birth date is later than marriage date in marriage(s):
MRIN: 411
1087 MULKINS, Ellis Age between husband and wife is greater than 20 years in marriage(s):
MRIN: 411
1131 FORSYTH, William Was not between 16 and 50 when children were born in marriage(s):
MRIN: 425
1665 MADSEN, Ellen Was not between 16 and 45 when children were born in marriage(s):
MRIN: 624
1665 MADSEN, Ellen Age between husband and wife is greater than 20 years in marriage(s):
MRIN: 624
1672 RASMUSSEN, Karl Martin Thorvald Age between husband and wife is greater than 20 years in marriage(s):
MRIN: 624
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