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To: SmoothSail who wrote (196607)	7/17/2010 1:48:48 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 225578

Kids are all the same. We don't listen to "that stuff" when we should. I was lucky. Mother gave me years ago two large paper sacks full of old letters, old pictures, and all sorts of other things of interest someday. Then one day, I was forced home from work for several months to get over an illness, so when I started to feel somewhat human again, I started sorting everything by decade into piles. Even the pictures. Envelopes are a good storage area...or large clear plastic ziplocks...Yellow stickies are a boon today..we didn't have them years ago. I use file labels to write on (pencil please) and put the peoples names and at least the year on each label....then put on the back of the pictures. NEVER write on the pictures in ink...it will eventually bleed through. Those two obits you have will give you many clues you don't know you have until you start listing the info on a Family Group sheet for each one and a Pedigree sheet. And letters....did your Mom keep any letters or diaries, etc? Those have been a huge bunch of clues for me. And eventually, Mom and I were able to find Many clues and actual cousins that she didn't know even existed! I hadn't wanted to chase living people, but in quick order, realized that IF anything was left (Bibles, letters, pictures, albums, etc) they would be either with living people, or in some cases, museums. It's been a grand adventure for many years finding so much info that I had NO idea we could find. NOW I have to start gathering the info together into book form, so the kids won't throw both the baby and the bathwater out..so to speak. Good Luck! If you like Detective stories or Puzzles, you will love finding some of these things....

To: SmoothSail who wrote (196607)	7/17/2010 3:08:55 AM
From: Neeka	Respond to of 225578

I have a cousin somewhere in the area, but I know everything I need or want to know about her life. She couldn't really tell me anything because my maternal grandparents never talked about their families. I do know my maternal ggrandfather was Irish. Came over to America on a boat called the "Fox" from Ireland. He met and married my ggrandmother...........whom I actually met and ate of her home made Angle Food cake with chocolate icing. My ggrandfather was a bum who drank himself to death and ended up in a ditch dead in Boston. His wife, my ggrandmother and her two daughters caught a stage west and ended up in the Seattle area. Ggrandmother cooked in the logging camps and later cooked at a sorotity at the UW and at some King County recreation/Summer camps. I spent time with her, but I don't remember much except she had shocking white hair and wore those funny looking black shoes and nylon stockings that looked to be 1/2" thick. And she was a hell of a cook. Pretty too..........1/2 Irish....1/2 Norwegian. Her Mother's Mother and Father were named Inga and Ole Olson from Christchurch Norway. There are two problems. There are thousands of Inga and Ole Olsons, and there are two Christchurch Norway. I have her blue sheet from the cemetery where she is buried. ;)