Beautiful Day. Knitted for a while. Mildred came around. Went over to Mildred’s at night.
Author: Kathleen
I’m Goin’ Down County
Over the last few days I’ve been throwing myself into sorting through my ‘To Be Sorted’ folder. It’s only been years in the making. In fact I’m taking it a step further and cleaning out my whole second hard drive. I’m just starting with the ‘To Be Sorted’ folder. I have higher ambitions though. I want an organized computer and I won’t quit until I get it!
However, yesterday I took a break from the sorting, and I finally read a book I bought at a Cecil’s Country Store in town (I love that store!). You can read the St. Mary’s County Tourism blog’s press release on the book. I will admit that I don’t read many reference books. Most times I start getting lost in the technical jargon. However, that didn’t happen with this book. I don’t know if it’s because I took architecture classes in high school or if it’s the book, that doesn’t matter though! I haven’t read all of it yet, but I’m definitely going to make a concentrated effort over the next few weeks to read more bits of it.
Continue reading “I’m Goin’ Down County”Diary of Llewellyn: September 28, 1923
Buelah & I went out to sell tickets for Lecture course. Went back to a meeting with her at church.
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Diary of Llewellyn: September 27, 1923
Meeting of Alethea class at church. Seven out.
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Diary of Llewellyn: September 26, 1923
Went to prayer meeting. Special meeting for officers of church.
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Diary of Llewellyn: September 25, 1923
We took ride around Pleasandale & St. Cloud & back home.
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Diary of Llewellyn: September 24, 1923
Stayed home and embroidered.
Next Entry: September 25, 1923
The 1940 Census – Part 2
Last time I posted about my 1940 Census search list, I only did two of the surnames in my family tree. This time I’ll be writing about two more. In fact, these are the last two big names on my Dad’s side of the family tree.
Continue reading “The 1940 Census – Part 2”Diary of Llewellyn: September 23, 1923
Rained all day. Nelson’s to come up but stormy. Went to all services at church. Got home from church & Aunt Aggie & Uncle Rene & Marguerite came out about 8 o’clock.
Next Entry: September 24, 1923
Robert Love, You’ve been Verified!
A few months back, my long lost cousin Grace sent me a copy of her Love family outline. In it, I found Martha Love and Robert Love, who were not in my records of the Love family. Martha was quite easy to track down with the Walker family. I didn’t find any evidence on Robert though. I’m being very discriminatory about who I put in my family file, so Robert wasn’t put in yet, but he was in my notations. Until last night.
I was sitting around last night, feeling sorry for myself because my family file got corrupted. It was no major deal because I did have backups. The only problem is my most recent backups were also corrupted. So I ended up using the gedcom backups I have as a secondary backup. Have I said backup enough for you?
Back on subject, I decided I might as well spend a tiny bit of money and buy some credits from Scotlands People. I’ve seen a lot about the site but I’ve never actually used it because of the credits issue. Well, I didn’t let that hold me back last night!
I found Andrew Love and his family in the 1841 Scotland census! As far as I know, this is the first and only census record that Robert Love appears with the family. Granted, the census does not say he is Andrew and Agnes’s son, but I don’t need them too. I am just trying to verify old family lore. Therefore, now I know there should be a birth/baptismal record for Robert and I finally have a year to look in!
Welcome to the family file Robert Love! The water is nice and freshly un-corrupted!
In slightly related news, I had a major genealogy moment while watching the Robin Gibb episode of Who Do You Think You Are. Not only did he visit Paisley, Scotland, the homeland of the Loves, I also spotted John Love, teacher in the book about the school he was researching! I haven’t connected John to my tree yet, but I think he’s Andrew’s brother. They lived down the street from each other for many years. I probably should have saved some of my credits to look up John. Oh well, there’s always next time!