Week 5: Favorite Food. What was your favorite food from childhood? If it was homemade, who made it? What was in this dish, and why was it your favorite? What is your favorite dish now?
I like fish, when I was young I went fishing a lot, I caught crappie, perch, bass, and occasionally a trout. My mom or grandma would fry the fish in butter and we ate fresh fish. I have not been fishing in years now, just have not had the urge lately.
When Skippers opened a restaurant near us we had a lot of fish and chips at Skippers, but when Ivar's Acres Of Clams opened in the food mart of Northtown Mall I switched to the fish and chips at Ivar's. They have wonderful cod fish fish & chips. Went there tonight for fish & chips.
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Saturday Night Fun Birth Day
It's Saturday Night - time for more Genealogy Fun!
Youir mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:
1) What day of the week were you born? Tell us how you found out.
June 14, 1948 Flag Day
Monday from a perpetual calendar
2) What has happened in recorded history on your birth date (day and month)? Tell us how you found out, and list five events.
Found out using Randy's URL (thanks Randy)
1933 Lou Gehrig and Joe McCarthy thrown out of game, McCarthy suspended 3 games but Gehrig isn't, so he continues his streak at 1,249 games
1922 President Harding is 1st U.S. president to use radio, dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore
1917 General Pershing and his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I
1876 California Street Cable Car Railroad Co gets its franchise
1847 Robert von Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner
1834 Isaac Fischer, Jr. patents sandpaper
1834 Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer, Jr., Springfield, Vermont
1777 Continental Congress adopts Stars and Stripes replacing Grand Union flag
1775 U.S. Army founded
3) What famous people have been born on your birth date? Tell us how you found out, and list five of them. Thanks for the URL Randy
1811 Harriet Beecher Stowe, author Uncle Tom's Cabin
1909 Burl Ives born Illinois folksinger- Actor
1921 Gene Barry, born New York actor Bat Masterson, Burke's Law
1925 Pierre Salinger newsman ABC, press secretary for John Kennedy
1946 Donald Trump born New York billionaire
Youir mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:
1) What day of the week were you born? Tell us how you found out.
June 14, 1948 Flag Day
Monday from a perpetual calendar
2) What has happened in recorded history on your birth date (day and month)? Tell us how you found out, and list five events.
Found out using Randy's URL (thanks Randy)
1933 Lou Gehrig and Joe McCarthy thrown out of game, McCarthy suspended 3 games but Gehrig isn't, so he continues his streak at 1,249 games
1922 President Harding is 1st U.S. president to use radio, dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore
1917 General Pershing and his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I
1876 California Street Cable Car Railroad Co gets its franchise
1847 Robert von Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner
1834 Isaac Fischer, Jr. patents sandpaper
1834 Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer, Jr., Springfield, Vermont
1777 Continental Congress adopts Stars and Stripes replacing Grand Union flag
1775 U.S. Army founded
3) What famous people have been born on your birth date? Tell us how you found out, and list five of them. Thanks for the URL Randy
1811 Harriet Beecher Stowe, author Uncle Tom's Cabin
1909 Burl Ives born Illinois folksinger- Actor
1921 Gene Barry, born New York actor Bat Masterson, Burke's Law
1925 Pierre Salinger newsman ABC, press secretary for John Kennedy
1946 Donald Trump born New York billionaire
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Wordless Wednesday Indian Tent Lake George, MN
Two pictures from my great aunt Latisha Vanderpool's photo album.
This picture has been cut off so can not read all it says at bottom.
??? & Tish at Indian Tent on
??ubeners grounds Lake Geroge 194? Another picture shows a W.H. Deubener, so I guess only the "D" got cut off.
The sign by the indian statue says He never took more than he needed.
This picture has been cut off so can not read all it says at bottom.
??? & Tish at Indian Tent on
??ubeners grounds Lake Geroge 194? Another picture shows a W.H. Deubener, so I guess only the "D" got cut off.
The sign by the indian statue says He never took more than he needed.
Monday, January 24, 2011
COG #102 iGene Awards
The topic for the 102nd edition of the Carnival of Genealogy is: The Annual iGene Awards! This will be my first time for these awards, last year was my first full year as a blogger so now I have some articles to pick.
Best Picture The most popular picture I posted in 2010 is the Yellowstone Falls, but the Mount St. Helens Photos was the award winner.
Best Screen Play Small Town Boy goes to War. This was a tribute to my Uncle Leigh who went to war with the Army Air Corps and got air sick every time he left the ground, so he becomes an aircraft mechanic and is sent to Panama to work on the planes sent to guard the Panama Canal.
Best Documentary This group of 43 posts was not on my blog, but on the Eastern Washington Genealogical Society Blog where I am on a team of bloggers. These posts were for the 75th anniversary of EWGS. All the EWGS Presidents.
Best Biography, I did not do many biographies, so this one on my Aunt Frances Hansen wins this award
Best Comedy. This is the best comedy post on DNA
Write up a blog post with links to your best articles in these categories and submit it to the COG! Thanks Jasia for the Carnival of Genealogy
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Early Spokane Pictures Online at Northwest Room
The Northwest Room Blog posted an article on the pictures that they have posted on the internet and plans to add many more.
Larry Cebula comments on the pictures at his Northwest History Blog
I am working on an upcoming project where I needed some early pictures of Trent/Front Avenue in downtown Spokane and I found a couple there that really show what I was looking for.
Note: Trent in downtown Spokane is now named Spokane Falls Boulevard, but it was still Trent when the pictures I was looking for were taken.
They have posted pictures of Spokane Streets, Spokane Homes, Spokane Parks, Spokane Bridges, the Spokane Fire, Spokane River and Spokane Views.
Larry Cebula comments on the pictures at his Northwest History Blog
I am working on an upcoming project where I needed some early pictures of Trent/Front Avenue in downtown Spokane and I found a couple there that really show what I was looking for.
Note: Trent in downtown Spokane is now named Spokane Falls Boulevard, but it was still Trent when the pictures I was looking for were taken.
They have posted pictures of Spokane Streets, Spokane Homes, Spokane Parks, Spokane Bridges, the Spokane Fire, Spokane River and Spokane Views.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Saturday Night Fun Random Name
Hey genealogy buffs - it's Saturday Night and time for more Genealogy Fun! Play along with us and tell us about it.
Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to follow Chris Staats' rules (from Freaky Friday: Random Research Reports) for picking a random person's name and then doing some online research about that person. Here are Chris's rules:
1. Go to The Random Name Generator and click the red “Generate Name” button at the top of the screen
2. Go to Ancestry.com and enter your generated name in the search box on the main search page. [Randy's add: If you don't have Ancestry.com, go to http://www.familysearch.org/ and do it there - it's free.]
3. From the results, your research target will be the first census result for your generated name.
This is the first of 275 hits for Sam Crane at Family Search. This is his listing in the 1920 census. I am always glad when they give the film number for further searching. Sam is listed with his wife May and daughter Olive.
Name: Sam B Crane
Residence: Los Angeles Township Los Angeles City Precinct 216, Los Angeles, California
Estimated Birth Year: 1871
Age: 49
Birthplace: New York
Relationship to Head of Household: Self
Gender: Male
Race: White
Marital Status: Married
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Birthplace:
Film Number: 1820115
Digital Folder Number: 4293715
Image Number: 01023
Sheet Number: 2
Household Gender Age
Sam B Crane M 49y
Spouse May Crane F 48y
Child Olive Crane F 24y
Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to follow Chris Staats' rules (from Freaky Friday: Random Research Reports) for picking a random person's name and then doing some online research about that person. Here are Chris's rules:
1. Go to The Random Name Generator and click the red “Generate Name” button at the top of the screen
2. Go to Ancestry.com and enter your generated name in the search box on the main search page. [Randy's add: If you don't have Ancestry.com, go to http://www.familysearch.org/ and do it there - it's free.]
3. From the results, your research target will be the first census result for your generated name.
This is the first of 275 hits for Sam Crane at Family Search. This is his listing in the 1920 census. I am always glad when they give the film number for further searching. Sam is listed with his wife May and daughter Olive.
Name: Sam B Crane
Residence: Los Angeles Township Los Angeles City Precinct 216, Los Angeles, California
Estimated Birth Year: 1871
Age: 49
Birthplace: New York
Relationship to Head of Household: Self
Gender: Male
Race: White
Marital Status: Married
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Birthplace:
Film Number: 1820115
Digital Folder Number: 4293715
Image Number: 01023
Sheet Number: 2
Household Gender Age
Sam B Crane M 49y
Spouse May Crane F 48y
Child Olive Crane F 24y
52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy Home I grew up in
52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History by Amy Coffin is a series of weekly blogging prompts (one for each week of 2011) that invite genealogists and others to record memories and insights about their own lives for future descendants. You do not have to be a blogger to participate. If you do not have a genealogy blog, write down your memories on your computer, or simply record them on paper and keep them with your files.
* Week 4: Home. Describe the house in which you grew up. Was it big or small? What made it unique? Is it still there today?
This is the house I grew up in, my parents bought it when I was about 18 months old and both lived there until they died. It is a story and a half with about 2/3 of house having a basement. It set on three lots in north Spokane. You can not see the roof in the picture, but it has a tile roof that is supposed to last as long as the house. When I was young pop bought some old telephone poles and made a swing in the yard they were about 20 feet high and had surplus rope pop bought from the navy surplus store.
When they bought the house it had a small one car garage, pop cut it in two and moved the one wall about 12 feet to the south, filled in with a new wall between where it was cut and added a new roof of the now two car garage.
If you look closely on the left of the picture is the first addition my parents added to the house, an office for mom to work in (she was a bookkeeper) and it was built by the carpenter that lived across the street. Later on they added on the north side about 12 feet, replacing the old porch that had been there with a bedroom and an addition to the kitchen.
It was located pretty good for us during school, it was three blocks to elementary school and four blocks to high school, but the junior high school was 1.4 miles away. When we went to junior high they would bus you if you lived 1.5 miles from the school and we were a block too close for the bus, so I rode my bike when ever there was no snow.
* Week 4: Home. Describe the house in which you grew up. Was it big or small? What made it unique? Is it still there today?
This is the house I grew up in, my parents bought it when I was about 18 months old and both lived there until they died. It is a story and a half with about 2/3 of house having a basement. It set on three lots in north Spokane. You can not see the roof in the picture, but it has a tile roof that is supposed to last as long as the house. When I was young pop bought some old telephone poles and made a swing in the yard they were about 20 feet high and had surplus rope pop bought from the navy surplus store.
When they bought the house it had a small one car garage, pop cut it in two and moved the one wall about 12 feet to the south, filled in with a new wall between where it was cut and added a new roof of the now two car garage.
If you look closely on the left of the picture is the first addition my parents added to the house, an office for mom to work in (she was a bookkeeper) and it was built by the carpenter that lived across the street. Later on they added on the north side about 12 feet, replacing the old porch that had been there with a bedroom and an addition to the kitchen.
It was located pretty good for us during school, it was three blocks to elementary school and four blocks to high school, but the junior high school was 1.4 miles away. When we went to junior high they would bus you if you lived 1.5 miles from the school and we were a block too close for the bus, so I rode my bike when ever there was no snow.
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