The activity for Day 16 of the 21 Day Family Connection Experiment is to draw a family tree. That is quite the daunting task for me. Two parents, multiple step-parents, full siblings, half-siblings, step- siblings, adoptions,. That’s why I characterize our family tree as a “bramblebush.” My father thought that was funny. Good thing. It’s […]
Read MoreThis is may be the last post in my recent series – “The Food of Our Family.” You never know though, I may have more to share on the subject!! My mother had an amazing collection of cookbooks. I think she even used many of them! I also amassed a decent size collection, but as […]
Read MoreThis is another in my series of posts about food and my family. Many, many years ago I purchased a lovely wooden recipe box, hand-painted by Debbi Wetzel, of “Woodzels by Wetzel.” It was the height of the country decorating craze and I purchased as many of her items as possible in this design. There […]
Read MoreToday’s activity for the 21 Day Family History Connection Experiment is to explore the US Census. In 2032, the first census listing my family home will be available – the one for 1960. (Census information is not released publicly until 72 years following the census year.) Hope I’ll be around to view it. I almost […]
Read MoreIn my last post, I shared many of our family’s Austrian treats. My mother’s talent for cooking and baking passed me over but thankfully my siblings (and our kids) inherited her genes and are darn good in the kitchen. In most families, the kitchen is THE place to be. The central gathering place. The place […]
Read MoreToday’s activity for the 21 Day Family History Connection Experiment states, “Experience what your ancestors’ country was like with food! Find a recipe from your ancestor’s home country and make it.” Oh we are right on top that one!! Like most families, good times often involve food. Many families have long-standing traditions of specific foods served […]
Read MoreMy sister Jeanne had a great idea – for all five of us to share “words of wisdom” that our mother imparted to us throughout the years. I responded to her text immediately. A perfect blog post for Mother’s Day, right? The only caveat was that she thought we should share in public only those […]
Read MoreToday’s Family History Connection Experiment activity has us sharing locations of our ancestors. It makes sense to combine that with my current project – the life of my maternal great-grandfather, Sigmund Lichtenthal. Sigmund was one of six children born to Rachmiel Lichtenthal and Antonia “Taube” Beller. Born in 1875 in Tarnopol, Poland, Sigmund traveled to […]
Read MoreDay 8 of the Family History Connections Experiment encourages us to search our family trees for “famous people.” FamilySearch.org actually has an app one can use to do that – The Relative Finder. But, like the Compare-a-Face site, you need to have a pretty good tree on the FamilySearch website. But, I knew there was […]
Read MoreThe activity for today’s Family History Connection Experiment is to use the FamilySearch.org website to find photos that look similar to me or other members of my family tree. That would be a fun project if: I had a completed tree on the website I had photos attached to the people that I do have […]
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Who We Are and How We Got This Way 