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Remembering Billy G.

Posted on August 19, 2019 by Pat Shaul

My mother’s cousin, William Gardner Koontz, called Billy G., was born 94 years ago on 19 August 1925, to William Peter and Ethel Emma Chidester Koontz.  William Peter was my grandmother’s brother.  Billy G. was 6 years younger than my … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday to Great Great Great Grandparents, an ocean apart!

Posted on August 11, 2019 by Pat Shaul

Two of my great, great, great grandparents were born on 11 August.  One in Würtenburg; one in New York. Alexander Gaertner was born in 1785 in Klein Ingersheim, Würtemburg, to Johannes Gaertner and Christina Leibbrandt.  He married Christina Regina Bauer on … Continue reading →

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Happy 152nd Birthday, Uncle Stephen!

Posted on August 10, 2019 by Pat Shaul

Stephen A. D. Wright [my great grand uncle] was born 10 August 1867 in Southfield, Oakland County, Michigan, to Allen Prince and Rebecca Caroline Griswald Wright.  Stephen was 9th in birth order of his parent’s brood of 11 children.   On … Continue reading →

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Cousin Dorothy would have been 101 today!

Posted on August 7, 2019 by Pat Shaul

Dorothy Jane Griste [my first cousin, once removed] was born on 7 August 1918 in Toledo, Lucas Co., Ohio, to Charles McKinley and Ethel Jeannette Koontz Griste.  Dorothy was the second child in birth order and the eldest daughter.  Her … Continue reading →

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Happy 160th Birthday, Grandma Weaver!

Posted on August 3, 2019 by Pat Shaul

Effie Clarissa Lee, my great grandmother, was born 3 August 1859, in Southfield, Oakland County, Michigan, to Charles Norton and Esther Jenks Lee. While on a long visit to her Aunt Minerva Jenks Bolton at Norfolk, Nebraska, she was united … Continue reading →

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What were they thinking?????

Posted on July 9, 2019 by Pat Shaul

Today, 9 July 2019, marks the 229th [1790] birthday of my 4 times great granduncle, Asahol Munn, son of Noah and Desire Hitchcock Munn.  Uncle Asahol was born in Gill, Massachusetts, the last of eight children. I have found no … Continue reading →

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Great Great Grandfather’s First of 4 Marriages – 159 years ago

Posted on July 3, 2019 by Pat Shaul

My great great grandfather, Wilhelm Gotthardt Gaertner, who changed his name to William G. Gardner,  came to the United States in 1854 from Klein Ingersheim, Kingdom Of Württemberg at the age of 21.  He eventually settled in Canaan, Connecticut where … Continue reading →

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Remembering GGG Granduncle Richard Lee

Posted on June 9, 2019 by Pat Shaul

  My Uncle Richard Lee was born 3 March 1808 in West Bloomfield, Ontario County, New York, to William and Mary Summers Lee.  For the longest time the only information I had about him was the entry in the Lee … Continue reading →

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Let’s Add Some Color!

Posted on May 17, 2019 by Pat Shaul

I have been playing around with the website: https://colourise.sg/#colorize which allows you to upload black and white photographs and it will attempt to colorize those same photographs.   Recent attempts: .. Obviously, the site does a much better job on photographs … Continue reading →

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Remembering Great Grandfather Weaver

Posted on May 11, 2019 by Pat Shaul

It was on this date, 11 May, 90 years ago, in 1929, that Great Grandfather Weaver passed away. Lemuel Weaver was born 26 August 1857 in Perry, Ohio, to Goodliff Weaver (nee: Gottlieb Weber) and Anne Lane.  He worked at … Continue reading →

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