This is a photo of the envelope that my uncle Stanley (1950-2010) sent to my grandmother back in 1984. This letter is notable because Stanley was a “wanderer.” He would leave New York and go travel and the family would never really know where he was at. His return address here is “On the […]
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Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun exercise tonight is as follows: Find a living male person in your database from your maternal grandfather’s patrilineal line who could take a Y-DNA test. Then, we are tasked to answer several questions. Here are my responses – fortunately, this was a very easy topic for me given all the testing
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Well, parts of it anyway. 🙂 This week, the 23andMe DNA Roots Into the Future results came back for one of my mother’s paternal 1st cousins. A great advantage of her having done the test is that I can now begin to establish segments of my mother’s DNA that comes from her paternal grandparents, Lewis
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Yesterday, my mom visited her brother’s grave in Sarasota National Cemetery. The cemetery had decorated all the headstones and she says it was a gorgeous view. What do you think? And, here is Stanley’s headstone
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Today, July 28, 2010, my mother’s eldest brother, Stanley Hines Robinson passed away. Hospitalized just 9 days ago, this has come about rather suddenly for our family and we will miss him so. Stanley had many adventures in life, liked to travel, and was an independent & free spirit. We love you and will
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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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I really enjoy Randy’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun assignments. Sometimes they really give you an opportunity to look at someone in your file who may not get much attention, or at least you haven’t visited in awhile. So, this week’s assignment was as follows: 1. Figure out the age of your father this year: my
I’m going to take Randy up on his Saturday Night Genealogy Fun for August 8, 2009. Not because of the intent to document my ethnicity for that is very easy – to the best of my current knowledge, all (with the exception of 1) of my ancestors as far as I can trace have been
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I’m feeling all inspired again with my genealogy blogging! I’ve gotten some great thoughts from reading others’ blogs. For this post, I’m taking Randy up on his last Saturday Night Fun quest, Where Were They in 1909? The task was as follows: 1) Which of your ancestors were alive in 1909? 2) Tell us where
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