Happy Thanksgiving

I want to wish all my friends Happy Thanksgiving, don't eat too much.

 Thanksgiving postcard from my aunt Carrie Hansen to my grandmother Anna Hansen in 1915. Carrie was in Minnesota going to college.

Saturday Night Genealogical Fun

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun! 

Here is your assignment, should you decide to accept it (you ARE reading this, so I assume that you really want to play along - cue the Mission Impossible music!):

1) Think about your most memorable Hallowe'en - was it when you were a child (candy, games, carnivals), a teenager (tricks and treats), or an adult (perhaps a party)?

2) Tell us about it in your own blog post


Don't have a clue what years this happened but we had a neighbor Mrs. Evans, which I called Mrs. Heavens. She made the best popcorn balls you have ever tasted, so every year we made sure we stopped at the Evans house on Halloween. Too bad that stopped when people put needles and other bad stuff in homemade treats. The kids of today will never know the great homemade treats we got.

Easter Greetings

This is two postcards from my dad's aunt Allie (Alice Costello DeRemer Hansen), wife of Peter Hansen to my grandmother Anna (Dillingham) Hansen wife of Anton Hansen. Peter was a brother of Anton. The first one is postmarked April 11, 1914 and the picture is very fancy and the card is shiny. 

 Front of card

 The second card is much more plain and is postmarked March 24 1921. Early postcards like the one above probably came from Germany, but due to WWI they stopped exporting postcards to the US.

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun

Wow  this is the first blog post I have done this year, been pretty busy at a lot of neighborhood meetings.

1)  Show us one of your favorite photographs of your family - a group, yourself, your mom, your dad, your sibling(s), your grandparents, etc.  Tell us about it - the date, the event, the setting, the persons in the photograph.

2)  Share it on your own blog

 Well we found this photo in some pf pops old photos, my sister took it to a local photography shop to get some duplicates, and at the time we added the names of the people in the photo and the date. It was taken in the front yard of my parents house at 1641 E Queen that they had bought just before they got married. My dad's parents are in front, my mom's parents in the back left, and my uncle Leigh right next to my dad and mom.