Wordless Wednesday Flower Hat

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

Wordless Wednesday Bowler Hat

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

Wordless Wednesday Couple

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

Saturday Night Fun Genea Santa 2013

Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision. Here's your chance to sit on Genea-Santa's lap (virtually) and tell him your Christmas genealogy-oriented wish list:

1) Write your Genea-Santa letter. Have you been a good genealogy girl or boy? What genealogy-oriented items are on your Christmas wish list? They could be family history items, technology items, or things that you want to pursue your ancestral quest.

1)  Yes I think I have been a good boy, I continue to do the research requests for Eastern Washington Genealogical Society, mostly obits now days, but an occasional trip to the courthouse to look up, divorces, probates, etc. I got to see the now empty auditors archives in the county courthouse, as the last paper records were on their way to the state archives. Hard to believe how much time I spent in that archive over the last ten years. The auditor asked me to keep my eyes open for anything pertaining to the history of the Spokane County Courthouse, so when I found an article in the Spokesman Review about a murder on the second floor of the courthouse, in front of a Spokesman Review reporter and a couple of other witnesses in the Spokesman Review I took it to the auditor and she was thrilled at what I had found. She had heard of the murder, but I both had a description of the murder, and the reason the lawyer was shot and killed, a probate filing, and an inference that the other lawyer was intimate with the widow before the husband had died.

I continue to write the genealogy column for the Clan Forsyth newsletter, and an occasional article for the EWGS Digital Digest.

I think I asked Genea-Santa for the parents of John Jackie Vanderpool last year, so this year I will ask Genea-Santa for the parents of Thomas D. Kelly, born in Kentucky in 1827 and hope he does better than last years complete failure to find John  Jackie's parents.

Wordless Wednesday Top Hat

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

Saturday Night Fun last B Surname

Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to:

1) We're going to do a little bit of Semi-Random Research tonight...

2)  Go to your family tree database of choice (you know, like RootsMagic, Reunion, Ancestry Member Tree), and determine who the very last person on your list of B names is.  Or the last person on your list of D names.  Or H names.  Or any other name you need to research.  Your choice!

3)  What do you know (or not know) about this person based on your research?  It's OK to do more research if you need to - in fact, it's encouraged!

4)  How are you related to this person, and why is s/he in your family tree?


Well the last B surname in my list is James Butler, don't know much about him other than he married Kimberly Jo Luckey June 2, 2000 in Utah. Kimberly is a granddaughter of Madelyn Whittum by her first marriage to Alvin Luckey. Madelyn divorced Alvin and married my uncle Leigh Hansen, my dad's younger brother, so I am really not related to James Butler, but slightly related to his wife. I checked to see if I could find more on James, but without his birth date or place of birth it looks like I won't find him. I did find a whole page of possibilities.

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving, the last three years I posted Thanksgiving Postcards from my dad's postcard collection here. I am thankful that he collected these postcards an kept them all these years.