#52Ancestors – Favorite Photo and Most Dreaded Photo
Posted by Caroll in 52 Ancestors, Genealogy Blog, Goals, Uncategorized on January 14, 2018
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks – 2018 Edition Challenge – Post 2
To blog more consistently in 2018, I am undertaking the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge again. The #52Ancestors Challenge is where a group of us blog about our ancestors, collateral relatives, discoveries, etc., for each week of the year. To learn more about the challenge or if you are interesting in joining, visit Amy Johnson Crow’s site at Amy’s website.
Favorite Photo
Author as a young toddler
Oh my! Doesn’t this little tyke exude confidence. I love her happy expression. She does not shy away from the camera.
As I grew older, I preferred to be behind the camera so I would not get my picture taken. Why was she happy, who is taking the photo? One of my parents probably took the photo.
The photo is of me as a toddler taken at one of the many camping trips my family took in the 60’s. Decades later, nature or nurture of those early camping trips, has played a role that my retirement plan includes getting an RV to travel the United States and Canada.
Most Dreaded Photo
The photos must go!
Why do I dread this photo? It’s a tote filled with the physical photos in my possession, thousands of photos. This 40 pound, 62-quart tote is an albatross around my neck. I have no desire to preserve them. I do not have the interest, energy and the time to scan, label, and disseminate to whoever will take the photos. What! But, you are a genealogist, the family historian. Yes, and I have lost interest in being the Keeper of Photos.
The photos have to go! There is no room in the future motor home. I will scan, label, and find a home for the old black and white photos with family members. Photos showing pastoral scenes go to the trash heap. Photos of my trips to Europe, Australia and New Zealand, trash. Google Earth ™ displays a much better image then the photo I originally took anyways. The rest of the photos will be categorized by family grouping. Then sent to some niece or nephew who may be so inclined to save for posterity.
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks – 2018 Edition Challenge
Posted by Caroll in 52 Ancestors, Genealogy Blog, Polish Genealogy on January 6, 2018
This is post 1 of the 2018 #52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge
To blog more consistently in 2018, I am undertaking the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge again. The #52Ancestors Challenge is where a group of us can blog about our ancestors, collateral relatives, discoveries, etc., for each week of the year. To learn more about the challenge or if you are interesting in joining, visit Amy Johnson Crow’s site at Amy’s website.
Revisiting the Lipinski Family
During the 2014 Edition of the 52 Ancestors Challenge, I wrote about Aleksandra Lipinska. Aleksandra is the wife of my second Great Uncle Ignacy Borucki. Over the New Year’s weekend, I went squirreling through the Polish genealogy website, Geneteka, to look a little closer at the Lipinski family.
Prior research of Ignacy and Aleksandra’s marriage record provided the names of Aleksandra’s parents, Jan Lipinski and Anna Czaplinska. My search in 2014 using the parent’s names in the Maków County, marriage records identified three siblings of Aleksandra. My recent foray led to the discovery of additional records of birth, marriages, deaths related to the Lipinski’s. I also found another sibling to Aleksandra, a brother named Antoni Lipinski, not previously known.
In 1920, Antoni Lipinski married Marianna Budna in Krasnosielc-Sielc, Poland. Most likely, this is a second marriage from Antoni as he was born in 1865 and presumably had an earlier marriage. I will have to give this Marianna Budna, a nickname to distinguish her from my Great Grandmother, Marianna (Borucki) Budny (Budna).
There are additional Geneteka records that provide clues to Jan Lipinski’s and Anna Czaplinska’s , siblings, parents and grandparents. Some Geneteka records are indexed only with no scan of the record to view. Gratefully, FamilySearch.org has microfilmed the parish records for Krasnosielc-Sielc. An image of Jan and Anna’s marriage record available at FamilySearch, lists their parents’ names. With Jan’s parents’ names, I located siblings, and his grandparents names, Gotlib/Gotleb Lipinski and Katarzyna Tomaszewska. It appears that I will be able to take at least one of my Polish collateral line back to the late 1700’s. Quite a feat for me, as my own direct Budny line only goes back to 1898.
Next week’s #52Ancestors prompt is “favorite photo.” Can I pick out a favorite photo to blog about? I do have an proclamation I want to share about preserving photos.
Too many interests – Not enough time
Posted by Caroll in Genealogy Education, Goals, ProGen25, Uncategorized on July 30, 2017
There is no excuse in not keeping up this blog. I have one competing interest with genealogy that I allow to consume my free time. Dreaming about RV’s. Getting an RV. Looking at RV’s for sale. Building my own RV. I spend more nights reading RV blogs and viewing YouTube videos. I still have a few years of working if I want a modest retirement. However, the lure of getting an RV and being a professional genealogist on the road is very tempting. When I am not obsessing over RV’s, I am expanding my genealogy skills.
Continuing Genealogy Education
This year (2017) I attended three genealogical institutes and one seminar. Future plans include a Certification Discussion group in the fall. My goal is to be a certified genealogist.
- Writing and Publishing for Genealogists with Dr. Thomas W. Jones, CG – July 2017 (Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research – IGHR)
- Practical Genetic Genealogy with Blaine Bettinger, CG – July 2017 (Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh)
- Tacoma-Pierce County Genealogical Society’s Spring Seminar featuring “The Legal Genealogist”, Judy G. Russell.
- You be the Judge: A Practicum Using Standards to Evaluate Genealogical Work, Jeanne Larzalere Bloom, CG – January 2017 (Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy – Salt Lake City)
In 2016, I completed the 19-month ProGen Study course. Plus attended “Confusion to Conclusion” with Harold Henderson and Kimberly Powell – July 2016, at the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh.
While in Pittsburgh last year, I wanted to explore the neighborhood my great-grand parents lived. My next post will have my write-up and photos I took of my visit.
Caroll
Importance of Speaking to Living Relatives to Glean Information
Posted by Caroll in Genealogy Blog on February 28, 2016
I thought I identified the correct family line on the Molner branch of my extended family tree. The information fit, names of the sisters matched so I thought, and the location fit. I heard a story that the mother died young that fit in with data I gathered. I spent countless hours trying to find records of their lives.
Then I went to a wedding.
In September 2015, I attended my niece’s wedding. I had the opportunity to connect with Aunt Sandy. Aunt Sandy is related to my older brother and sister. The Molner branch of the tree is from my mother’s first marriage to Robert Gaber. My mother, Shirley, married Robert in July 1954. Robert died suddenly in December 1956. My mother was a widow at 21, with two toddlers to raise.
There wasn’t much contact with the relatives and descendants of this line as in most families the ties that bind where long cut and we drifted apart. My sister reconnected to Aunt Sandy when she moved to Florida where her Gaber grandparents once owned a house that Sandy now lives in. That night at the wedding, Sandy and I, started talking details of her mother, Elizabeth Molner family.
I found out I was way off this branch. Luckily, the axillary bud of this twig was fairly short when I lopped it off my family tree. In its place has grown a sturdy twig that will support the leaf primordia that will turn into leaves to fill in the family tree.
Meet the Molner’s
Aunt Sandy provided the names of the siblings, the parents, and that the family lived in Mahanoy, Pennsylvania. Turns out Elizabeth Molner was one of nine children both to Paul Molner and Veronica Petrilla. Both parents lived to the early 1950’s. Currently, I can only find information about the parents from the 1930 and 1940 Censuses and possible death records.
The 1930 Census has Paul’s birthplace is listed as Poland, Russia. Veronica Petrilla Molner is from Austria. Paul immigrated in 1905 and Veronica immigrated in 1904. Married about 1917. The first four children were born in Illinois. The remaining five were born in Pennsylvania. The 1940 Census contradicts with the 1930 Census listing all the children born in Pennsylvania. Except Elizabeth Molner, who is now married to Stanley Gaber, is listed on the 1940 Census as being born in Illinois.
I will have to create a research plan for this family to locate further information. Did the parents marry in Illinois, are there naturalization papers, can I find out from whence they immigrated and all the other pertinent details. Now that I am on the right footpath.
Am thankful that I spoke to Aunt Sandy while she is still alive. My own father passed away last November 2015. There are still more questions I should have asked. It is so important to connect to the past through the living.
Hiatus Ending Soon
Posted by Caroll in Uncategorized on January 31, 2016
I will be back to blogging on a regular basis in February. I just haven’t’ had the energy lately to blog. Between the full-time job, long Seattle commutes, my genealogy study group assignments, a chronic cold/sinus infection, a wedding, and a funeral, there just wasn’t extra time to spare for writing on the blog.
I need to finish the 2015 genealogy goals and set 2016 genealogy objectives. A goal without a plan, is just a wish. So it’s more about doing this year, instead of wasting tomorrows.
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