Saturday Night Fun Thanksgiving Memories

1) We just celebrated Thanksgiving in the USA, and many of us have celebrated it every year for decades.  For this SNGF, please share a favorite Thanksgiving memory - it can be sentimental, humorous, reflective, etc.

2)  Share your Thanksgiving memory with us in your own blog post

I don't remember any favorite Thanksgiving, mostly we went to my grandmother Kelly's house for Thanksgiving. We had turkey, stuffing, vegatables, mashed potatoes, gravy and pie. Most everyone had pumpkin, but I did not like pumpkin so my grandmother would bake something else for me, usually apple pie. As my grandmother got older she stopped the pies, so mom made the pies then, and I even learned to bake the pumpkin pie. Everyone said it was good, but I still could not eat it.
 

Wordless Wednesday Three Ladies

Another photo from my grand aunt Latisha Vanderpool's photo album.

Saturday Night Fun Timeline for Hans Kristin Mikkelsen

1) Have you created a Timeline for one of your ancestors using a genealogy software program (e.g., Family Tree Maker, RootsMagic, Legacy, Reunion, etc.) or an online family Tree (e.g., Ancestry Member Tree, FamilySearch Family Tree, Geni, MyHeritage, etc.), or in a spreadsheet (e.g., Excel) or in a word processor table?

2)  If not, try to create a timeline using the program/website of your choice.  If so, create another one for the ancestor of your choice!

3)  Show us your Timeline creation, and tell us how you did it.  Which program/website did you use, the process you used, and how you captured the images to display your timeline.

Well I used Ancestor Quest  version 14 to create a timeline, just went to reports and printed to a text file which I will post below.

                                                  Research Timeline                                                  
                                       for Hans Kristin MIKKELSEN-1 (1837-1892)                                      
22 Nov 2014
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Napoleonic Wars (Begin)                                           18 May 1803     
Mother: K HANSDATTER-1023 (1804-1880)     Birth                   21 May 1804      Humble, Svendborg, Denmark        
Father: Mikkel MADSEN-1024 (1807-1888)    Birth                   11 May 1807      Magleby, Svendborg, Denmark       
Napoleonic Wars (End)                                             13 Sep 1815     
Father: Mikkel MADSEN-1024                Married                 13 Nov 1830      Humble, Svendborg, Denmark        
   Mother: Kristen HANSDATTER-1023
Sib 2: Hanne K MIKKELSEN-1642 (1834- )    Birth                          1834                                        
Hans Kristin MIKKELSEN-1                  Birth                   21 Apr 1837      Humble, Svendborg, Denmark        
Sp: Karen JORGENSEN-2 (1840-1891)         Birth                    8 Jun 1840  (3) Tullebolle, Svendborg, Denmark    
Sib 4: Jorgine MIKKELSEN-1641 (1840- )    Birth                          1840  (2)                                   
Sib 5: Karoline MIKKELSEN-1643 (1842- )   Birth                   18 Mar 1842  (4)                                   
Sib 6: Marthe MIKKELSEN-1644 (1845- )     Birth                          1845  (7)                                   
Sib 2: Hanne Kirstine MIKKELSEN-1642      Married                 12 Feb 1858 (20) Vejle, Vejle, , Denmark           
   Daniel Seigbert HINSCH-1686 (1840- )
Ch 1: Anne K HANSEN-1054 (1860-1870)      Birth                   18 Oct 1860 (23) Lonelse, Svendborg, Denmark       
American Civil War (Begin)                                         4 Feb 1861 (23)
Hans Kristin MIKKELSEN-1                  Married                 30 Jun 1861 (24) Tullebolle, Svendborg, Denmark    
   Sp: Karen JORGENSEN-2
Ch 2: Hans Jorgen HANSEN-8 (1862- )       Birth                   25 Nov 1862 (25) Humble, Svendborg, Denmark        
American Civil War (End)                                          23 Jun 1865 (28)
Ch 3: Jensine HANSEN-10 (1865- )          Birth                    6 Oct 1865 (28) Humble, Svendborg, Denmark        
Sib 5: Karoline MIKKELSEN-1643            Married                 21 Apr 1866 (29)                                   
   Hans KRISTENSEN-1650 (1833-1883)
Ch 4: Peter Soren HANSEN-3 (1868-1940)    Birth                    2 Jan 1868 (30) Humble, Svendborg, Denmark        
Ch 1: Anne Kirsten HANSEN-1054            Died                    12 Feb 1870 (32) Humble, Svendborg, Denmark        
US Census 1870                                                     1 Jun 1870 (33)
Ch 5: Anton Michael HANSEN-4 (1870-1961)  Birth                   10 Jul 1870 (33) Humble, Svendborg, Denmark        
Ch 7: Laurits HANSEN-752 (1872-1872)      Birth                   10 Nov 1872 (35) Humble, Svendborg, Denmark        
Ch 6: John HANSEN-5 (1872-1964)           Birth                   10 Nov 1872 (35) Humble, Svendborg, Denmark        
Ch 7: Laurits HANSEN-752                  Died                    14 Nov 1872 (35) Humble, Svendborg, Denmark        
Minnesota State Census 1875                                              1875 (37)
Ch 8: Martin HANSEN-6 (1875- )            Birth                   21 Feb 1875 (37) Humble, Svendborg, Denmark        
Ch 9: Lawrence T HANSEN-7 (1877-1930)     Birth                    2 Mar 1877 (39) Humble, Svendborg, Denmark        
Ch 10: Klaudius HANSEN-9 (1879- )         Birth                    4 Jul 1879 (42) Humble, Svendborg, Denmark        
Mother: Kristen HANSDATTER-1023           Died                    23 Jan 1880 (42) Humble, Svendborg, Denmark        
US Census 1880                                                     1 Jun 1880 (43)
Minnesota State Census 1885                                              1885 (47)
Father: Mikkel MADSEN-1024                Died                     8 Sep 1888 (51) Humble, Svendborg, Denmark        
US Census 1890                                                     2 Jun 1890 (53)
Sp: Karen JORGENSEN-2                     Died                    29 Mar 1891 (53) Humble, Svendborg, Denmark        
Hans Kristin MIKKELSEN-1                  Died                    10 Jan 1892 (54) Humble, Svendborg, Denmark        
Ch 4: Peter Soren HANSEN-3                Married                 15 Mar 1893      Austin, Mower, Minnesota          
   Alice Costello DEREMER-11 (1873-1945)
Minnesota State Census 1895                                              1895     
Ch 5: Anton Michael HANSEN-4              Married                 11 Feb 1896      Nunda, McHenry, Illinois          
   Anna Marie DILLINGHAM-12 (1872-1960)
US Census 1900                                                     1 Jun 1900     
Ch 6: John HANSEN-5                       Married                 21 Sep 1903      Sebeka, Wadena, Minnesota         
   Isabell Amelia ASTRUM-33 (1887-1986)
Ch 9: Lawrence Theadore HANSEN-7          Married                 23 Apr 1904      Sebeka, Wadena, Minnesota         
   Elsie Christina HOLM-34 (1885-1964)
Wisconsin State Census 1905                                              1905     
Minnesota State Census 1905                                              1905     
US Census 1910                                                    15 Apr 1910     
World War I (Begin)                                               28 Jun 1914     
World War I (End)                                                 11 Nov 1918     
US Census 1920                                                     1 Jan 1920     
Stock Market Crash of 1929                                        29 Oct 1929     
Ch 9: Lawrence Theadore HANSEN-7          Died                     1 Feb 1930      Sebeka, Wadena, Minnesota         
US Census 1930                                                     1 Apr 1930     
World War II (Begin)                                               1 Sep 1939     
US Census 1940                                                     1 Apr 1940     
Ch 4: Peter Soren HANSEN-3                Died                     9 Sep 1940      Austin, Mower, Minnesota          
World War II (End)                                                14 Aug 1945     
Ch 5: Anton Michael HANSEN-4              Died                     9 Mar 1961      Blanchard, Bonner, Idaho          
Ch 6: John HANSEN-5                       Died                     6 Nov 1964      LaCrosse, , Wisconsin             

Wordless Wednesday Indians

Another photo from my grand aunt Latisha Vanderpool's photo album.

Saturday Night Fun Collections

1)   Most of us collect dead ancestors and relatives now - what did you collect when you were a child or teenager?

2)  Tell us about your collections in a blog post of your own.


Well I collected coins, pennies, nickles, dimes, quarters, and fifty cent coins. I guess I got that from my dad as he collected postcards, and coins also, his collection is a lot bigger than mine was, and he had a lot of foreign coins he collected when he was in WWII.

Wordless Wednesday Church

Another photo from my grand aunt Latisha Vanderpool's photo album.

Veterans Day 2014

I have posted previous Veterans Day tributes here so this year I am posting a picture of the 354 Service Squadron that my dad was in in WWII.

My dad had picked up this photo at one of the reunions he went to, he said he did not remember it being taken, or where or when it was taken. Captain Maloy was a spit and polish captain so that is why all were in uniform and ties. For a group that serviced B-17 and B-24 bombers keeping spit and polished was a lot of work. They started out at Geiger AFB and had basic training in Ephrata, Washington, then on to England, and spent most of the war in North Africa before going to Italy. After the surrender in Europe they were put on a ship heading to Japan, and were in the Panama Canal when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. They headed to San Francisco and before they got there the second bomb had been dropped and Japan surrendered. So at San Francisco they asked the men if they wanted to stay in the army or go home. They all went home. As of last count 5 or 6 of the men are still alive.

Saturday Night Fun Beards

1)  This week we're going to look for men's facial hair in our photograph collection.

2)  Find one or more photographs of men in your ancestral families that have facial hair - a mustache and/or a beard.  

3)  Show the photograph if you have it and tell us a bit about the person shown.

Well it took a while but I found a couple of ancestors with beards:

 This is my great grandfather Stanislaus Potoski Dillingham, his wife Eliza Minerva (Hellenbolt) Dillingham (sitting), and their daughter Fredalene Dillingham, sister to my grandmother Anna M. (Dillingham) Hansen.

This is Robert Forsyth and his wife Mary (Williams) Forsyth. Robert was a War of 1812 veteran and is my great-great Grandfather on my moms side.

Wordless Wednesday Hammock

Another photo from my grand aunt Latisha Vanderpool's photo album.