The past couple of weeks I’ve been more focused on my Koonce genealogy work than anything else. Ever since having that flurry of Koonce activity, I’ve just been caught up in it. I have decided to do a new blog devoted to chronicling my quest to research and findings; not just of my own Koonce […]
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I’m writing this post as a pre-published post, but I was just flipping channels and ran across the movie The Temptations. When I watch this movie, I think of my grandfather Herman. My favorite scene from the movie is when actor Christian Payton (playing Paul), sings “For Once In My Life.” At the time, I
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Today, Obama took his train ride from Philadelphia to DC. I watched some of the footage online and while looking at it thought about my uncle. He drives for Amtrak and has in the past driven the route that Biden would take from Delaware to DC. He’s talked to Biden on occasion and tells our
My mother was born in 1951 and when she was born her family lived at 100 Brooklyn Avenue in Brooklyn, NY. Here is a picture of her uncle June, with her older brother Stanley that was taken around the time he was about 10 months old; my mother was not yet born. One day, my
Do you use FindAGrave? If not, you should! Thanks to a wonderful volunteer, I today received notification that a picture of my uncle’s headstone had been fulfilled. My mother has been wanting a picture of it for years now and she no longer lives in the city where he is buried. We love you and
Today would have been the 100th birthday of my mother’s paternal aunt, Ethel Robinson Rose. Ethel was born August 8, 1908 in Wilmington, North Carolina to Lewis “Christopher Columbus” Robinson and Lucinda (Lennon) Robinson. She was their first of what would be eventually 9 children. As I review my records for Ethel, I see that
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This picture is one my mother recently sent me of her uncle Fred and Curtis – both brothers of my grandmother. This was taken in the 1940s-early 50s most likely. The reason I posted this picture is because of the tanks in the background. My mother was always telling me how close their building in
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Growing up, my mother would always tell me – “you have a great-grandfather named Louis Christopher Columbus Robinson.” As I delved into my genealogy more in-depth, I learned more about him. Given the current timing with Columbus Day approaching, I thought this would be a good time to post about him and his middle name.
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Today my mother received the SS5 form for her aunt Ethel. It’s been two months in the waiting, but we were happy to get it. We learned from it that apparently, Ethel was born in North Carolina, and not New York as we’d thought. I now have to try and see if it is possible
In looking at my grandfather Herman’s Report of Separation again over the weekend, I started to do some research on his service. He was enlisted in the US Navy from May 1944 to approximately June 1946. During this time, his records indicate he only served on one ship – the USS Boxer. He was a