Papa took me to Montclair to get my red jacket and then we went down to Bloomfield and he got a shave & haircut. George bought me a racquet and camera. I gave him $6.00 toward it. Geo sold his cut down for $65.
Diary of Llewellyn: July 10, 1924
Had my hair washed at 6 o’clock. Went up to Mrs. Glazier’s and had orange dress tried on. Folks picked cherries and then took a ride.
Next Entry: July 11, 1924
Diary of Llewellyn: July 9, 1924
Papa came back from farm about 7:20. We took ride around West Caldwell, Fairfield and Singac. Then started for Suffern. Met Uncle Rene on the road to Oakland. We turned around & they came out to Caldwell. Had Mr. Ekinger with them. Marguerite felt better. Had coughing spell before she went home.
Next Entry: July 10, 1924
Diary of Llewellyn: July 8, 1924
Caught in the rain. I had to stay at station until 6:30. Papa met me with truck. He had to take all the help home from the store. Caldwell flooded.
Next Entry: July 9, 1924
Diary of Llewellyn: July 7, 1924
Picked cherries. Mr Ellinger came down to see Papa. I beat it in the house as I had on old sleeveless dress. We picked 24 qts of cherries for Papa to take to Market. Geo ran over my toe with fliver, did not hurt.
Next Entry: July 8, 1924
Diary of Llewellyn: July 6, 1924
Went up to see Marguerite in afternoon. She was very sick with whooping cough. Papa & Irving went over to ballgame for awhile. Reached home about 6 o’clock, after Papa got back from farm about 9 o’clock, we took short ride.
Next Entry: July 7, 1924
Diary of Llewellyn: July 5, 1924
Mama and I went down to see When a Man’s a Man at the Wellmont. I bought white liner dress at Fashion Center and ordered a flannel jacket & blouse. Went up to see Ruth after supper. Elbert there. Came home about 12:15. We started having Saturdays off.
Next Entry: July 6, 1924
Diary of Llewellyn: July 4, 1924
We all went down to Clinton for dinner. In afternoon went to ballgame. Papa went to farm and when he came back we took short ride and then stopped at the Catholic fair. I won a box of candy.
Next Entry: July 5, 1924
Diary of Llewellyn: July 3, 1924
Sat on porch until about 9:30, then went to bed.
Next Entry: July 4, 1924
What I’ve Been Working On
I’ve been a little silent on the blog writing and reading front. Summer is in full swing so I bet everyone knows what that means! Yard work! Fun stuff there. I haven’t been doing as much as the rest of my family, but we’re working on our yard and I’ve spent a week dogsitting. Not to mention this heatwave! So one of the things I’ve been doing in the evenings is adding things to a private family tree on Ancestry.com. I’ve gone back and forth for ages on this subject, and I finally decided to have a private family tree there.
The advantages are that I will have a sharable tree to invite new connections to. I will also be able to show my source photos. A lot of my pictures are already on Ancestry from people who have visited the website in the past and saved the images. One of the reasons I’m doing this is I would like a way to share some of the source images without having to send huge emails with many attachments. For copyright reasons, there are some sources that I haven’t posted images for on the website. I would never intentionally violate a copyright agreement, so I think a private tree to share certain things would be better.
I started a new blank, unlinked tree because I wanted to have complete control over the file. If I had synced my FTM file with Ancestry.com, then my source citations would have been a little weird. For example, it would have shown everything on the Ancestry tree, however, the census images and death records wouldn’t be linkable to the databases on Ancestry. I could have added the records through Ancestry.com, but then those sources would have downloaded themselves to my desktop family file. That would be a no no for me. So I decided the simplest route would be to do this. It’s a lot of leg work sure, but I’m really only working on it in the evenings when I feel like I can’t work on my family file for stress reasons.
Of course, there might be some way to do what I want, without the syncing issues, but I think I’d choose to do it this way in the end anyway. I just like having complete control over these things.
Later this week, I’m going out of state for a quick trip. I’m hoping that before I leave, I get an entry written up and posted about the TNG software. I get a lot of questions about it, and I’m hoping to answer some of those this week.