BREAKING: House passes HR 1355 "July 26, DISABILITY PRIDE DAY"& Chicago's...
The U.S. House has just passed HR 1355, http://thomas.loc.gov/... designating this Saturday, July 26, Disability Pride Day. H Res 1355 honors both the 5th anniversary of Chicago's annual Disability...
View ArticleFrom the Mouths of Babes . . .
So, I go to pick up my daughter from preschool yesterday afternoon and the director of the center sees me and comes over to tell me a story about my little girl. I like to hear stories about her, but...
View ArticleShow and Tell: GFHC Open Thread (with Poll)
The chaos around me did not appear, I swear, until I saw the Genealogy and Family History Community group blog. Just a few diaries in, though, and I found myself hauling that big box with “Genealogy”...
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GFC Open Thread: Looking for Obituaries and Getting Unexpected History Lessons
It was nothing so exciting as a wild and stormy night on the west coast of Scotland, but instead, it was a lovely Saturday afternoon on a perfect autumn day when I discovered that history can be looked...
View ArticleGFHC Open Thread: Truth and Reconciliation
When I was just a slip of a girl living with my grandparents on their Iowa farm, like many an only child I was possessed of a very active imagination. One particular fantasy, though, remains clear in...
View ArticleGFHC Open Thread: A Rede Peticoate, Boyld Syder & Political Deals
Pretend the Squiggle is a time machine and come with me on a short journey ... First stop is 16th century England at Latton Manor in Wiltshire where the wife of George Prater, Esq., one Jane Plott by...
View ArticleGFHC Open Thread: "I think my wife burnt it."
Southern Campaign American Revolution Pension StatementsPension Application of Wooten Harris: W23186 State of Illinois, Montgomery County Court of County Commissioners / Special September term 1832On...
View ArticleGFHC Open Thread: The scourge of "the Milk Sick"
Milk sickness, also known as tremetol vomiting, or in animals as trembles, is characterized by trembling, vomiting, and severe intestinal pain that affects individuals who ingest milk or other dairy...
View ArticleGFHC Mid-Week Open Thread Choosing a group avatar
Fired up? Ready to go? As announced in Friday's Open Thread we're going to collectively see if we can choose an ever so grand avatar to accompany our distinguished group's name for diaries/posts...
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Great Granddad Ashley Makes the News
Genealogy & Family History Community Leave the blood feuds at home
View ArticleA Personal Tale of "la llorona" -- In Remembering World War II
The words written in quotations above,"la llorona" in the Spanish language means a woman who cries...alot. A woman mourns in painful sorrow and grieves the loss of a son. This is a story of two women...
View ArticleEverything I Really Ever Needed to Know About Ayn Rand I Learned From My...
Many years ago in a state far, far away, I married into an Irish-American family, acquiring a husband, two sisters-in-law, three brothers-in-law, and a widowed mother-in-law. The man who would have...
View ArticleThe Genealogist Who Could not Search, or Find Himself
It is now very late August 2012 with that familiar Midwest comfortable cool nights and not too hot days. That has me thinking, not in any particular order, deep thoughts of inventories I have done of...
View Article"Do you know what it means, being a Democrat?"
Overheard on the way to soccer practice.“Are you a Democrat or a Republican?” one boy asked over the chatter of Minecraft and Percy Jackson. In the driver’s seat I cringed a little. It’s bad enough...
View ArticleCelebrating our Turkey Friends
I know it sounds kind of weird, but for a long while, we kept turkeys as pets and companions.It all started after my kids had suffered a serious bout of the flu. Both had ended up in the hospital for...
View ArticleThe Environmental Impact Of Christmas
My dad, raised in the Depression among parsimonious New England folk, was an early adopter of energy conservation. Hardly a day would pass in autumn, winter, or spring without him remarking "Close that...
View ArticleLadies & Horses: Ann Romney vs. My Grandmother
As noted in the Washington Post and discussed in this diary posted earlier this afternoon:By all accounts, the past month has been most difficult on Romney’s wife, Ann, who friends said believed up...
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GFHC Open Thread: Country Roads, Old Bones, Part 3
Genealogy & Family History Community Leave the blood feuds at homeI should rather live and love where death is king, than have eternal life where love is not. ~ Jonathan F....
View ArticleGFHC Open Thread - Magic Bullets and Spontaneous Human Combustion (updated)
Ethan Allen slept in my house. An elephant is buried in my front yard. My grandfather taught an escape trick to Houdini.These family stories are true. I know. I've done the in-depth research.Family...
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Street Prophets Coffee Hour: Every Family Has One
Every family seems to have one: A person committed to maintaining the family stories and preserving the surviving photos. In my family, that person is me. I’m still trying to find an easy way to record...
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