Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:
It's Saturday Night again -
Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!
1) We all find "fun" or "different" information about ourselves, our relatives and ancestors in our genealogy and family history pursuits. What are five "fun" or "different" facts in your life or your ancestors lives?
2) Tell us about your five fun or different facts in a comment on this post, or in a Facebook post. Please leave a link on this post if you write your own post.
Thank you to Jacquie Schattner for suggesting this topic.
Here's mine:
* As a high school senior in my 1961 yearbook entry, it says I "...took an interest in bowling, swimming, and the Hully Gully." "The Hully Gully" was a song (and dance moves) by the Olympics in 1960 that was never a big hit. I could never do the dance moves. But the cool kids at school loved it - they used to line up in the hallway at school during class breaks and sing and dance. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fMlfXmHsb4
* My father arrived at his Aunt Emily's house in San Diego without notice in December 1940, driving from Massachusetts in 3 days. Aunt Emily's granddaughter, Marcia, was age 14 and had an art class taught by my mother (in her first teaching job at Woodrow Wilson Junior High School in San Diego). One day, my father came home from work and at the dinner table he said "I need a girlfriend..." Marcia piped up with "I know a pretty teacher at school." Somehow, the meeting was arranged. 18 months later they were married, and here I am today telling the story.
* My maternal grandfather, Lyle L. Carringer (1891-1976) worked for 56 years at Marston's Department Store in downtown San Diego. He started as a cash boy in 1905 and worked his way
up to being an auditor, a bookkeeper, and "Chief Auditor" when he retired in 1961 at age 70. I think he is how I got my love of mathematics.
* Lyle's mother, Della (Smith) Carringer (1862-1944) was an artist and a family historian (she kept an active correspondence with her aunts, uncles and cousins from all over the country by postal mail - I have her scrapbook, some letters and some papers). She also controlled the financial affairs in the family - she bought and sold real estate in San Diego throughout her married life. She met her future husband in Wano, Kansas when she (and her father) received land grants in Cheyenne County, Kansas in the 1880s, next to Henry Austin Carringer's land grant. Austin and Della acted together in melodramas in Wano before coming to San Diego by train on their 1887 honeymoon. They never left!
* My 2nd great-grandparents, James and Hannah (Rich) Richman came from Wiltshire in England in 1856 to Putnam, Connecticut, and most of the males worked in the family. Their son, Thomas Richmond (1848-1917) married Julia "Juliette" White in 1867 and they had 9 children. The whole family was musically talented, and my paternal grandmother Alma Bessie (Richmond) Seaver played the organ and piano at churches in Leominster, Massachusetts for many years.
I didn't get the art gene from Della, or the music gene from Bessie, but I sure got the math gene from Lyle, and the family history gene from all of them. I love my ancestors!!!
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5 comments:
Fun facts:
Both sets of my grandparents and my parents met at a dance. My dad's parents were living in Brussels, Belgium and both went to a little night club one night. My grandmother with her girlfriend and my grandfather with a bunch of guys he worked with. They enjoyed each others company and they both grew up on border towns, he in Luxembourg, she in Belgium, but they could walk to each other's parents houses.
My mother's parents were acquainted with each other through their jobs in Chicago. He was a machinist for the railroad and she worked in the office. However he was married with children. Several years later, his first wife died, and he went to a dance in Moline, Illinois (it's clear across the state on the Mississippi River. ) and re-met my grandmother. They were both looking for a marriage partner. He wanted a mother for his children, she was nearly 30 years old. But they had a long happy marriage.
A week or so after my mother graduated from high school (in Moline, IL) she moved to Chicago and lived at a YWCA. She moved in on a Saturday, and that Tuesday night she and her roomate went to the nearby Catholic church for a young adult dance/get together. She and my father met. He was immediately attracted to her, but she was a newbie to the big city life. He told her to get a reference of my dad's good reputation from the priest, so she did and they went out on their first date, the next weekend, to the Argon, a famous dance hall. They were married the next year. (It didn't hurt that my dad was an excellent dancer.)
People are always suprised that I'm a first generation American on my father's side. He immigrated just three years before I was born from Luxembourg. He had the immigrant's desire to succeed in the U.S. and after many years, he started his business. He's been gone for almost 30 years, but the business is still going and prosperous today. Many of his children and grandchildren worked there one time or another, and it helped get a few through college.
I didn't realize until I was in college how much influence his European upbringing had on us. We eat with our forks in the left hand, and knives in the right. No shifting back and fourth. We ate odd items in comparison to our friends, snails, artichoke, brussel sprouts. Never mash potatos. Always fries with steak, and made in the special pot was imported from France. Lots of omelettes. I still love the clickety clickety sound of the fork whipping up the eggs for our Sunday omelettes. I make them myself, often.
Here's mine:
https://mytrailsintothepast.blogspot.com/2024/02/sngf-five-fun-or-different-facts.html
I'm back and posting again!
http://www.ancestraldiscoveries.com/2024/02/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-five-fun.html
I'm back and posting again!
http://www.ancestraldiscoveries.com/2024/02/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-five-fun.html
Here's mine, but I went with Randy's conversation hearts post from the other day! https://emptybranchesonthefamilytree.com/2024/02/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-282/
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