Today is my grandfather’s birthday – Herman Robinson. He died in 1986, but had he lived he would have been 84 years old today – born February 5, 1926 to Lewis “Christopher Columbus” Robinson & Lucinda Lennon in New York, New York. Herman was the 7th son of his parents; no children born in between […]
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Tonight’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun prompts us to recall a day from when we were 12 years old. 1) Remember when you were 12 years old? On a summer day out of school? What memory do you have of fun activities? 2) Tell us about that memory (just one – you can do more later
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In this installment of the Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories, our daily prompt is “Christmas Gifts.” Today, I’d like to share two pictures of me with some of my Christmas gifts First, here I am in 1980 when I was 5 years old. I remember getting this needlework set and I just loved it! I
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This is another post for my Advent of Christmas Calendar Memories. Here on Day 6, the prompt is as follows: Did you ever send a letter to Santa? Did you ever visit Santa and “make a list?” Do you still believe in Santa Claus? I don’t know if I’ve ever written a letter to Santa,
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I’ve never participated in the Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories before, so this will be fun for me this year. I won’t be doing all the days, but I’ll do some as I can. I am beginning to get in the Christmas spirit as I look at some of my old pictures, so this should
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Will all my geneablogger friends help me wish him a happy birthday! 🙂 Comment on this blog post, or, you could even send him an email directly! (kalonji at gmail dot com) – that would be funny wouldn’t it? to get random emails from geneabloggers he doesn’t even know. I still haven’t finished my blogs
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Kaleya & her cousin (my brother’s eldest). She is 9 years and she is 4. I love how much alike they look and frankly, it amazes me sometimes.
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My father in 1970 – point guard for the Newbold High School basketball team in Dover, North Carolina. Picture taken from his yearbook. Research tip for me: consult newspapers from the time period to see if his performance was mentioned 🙂
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I’ve just had occasion to send another photo restoration order off to George Geder and I realized that I’m not sure I’ve posted before about my experiences using him for enhancing my family photos. First of all, I have to say that GEORGE ROCKS! I found him through a post he made at Afrigeneas and