My Trails into the Past

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's  Saturday Night  again - time for some more  Genealogy Fun!!   Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing’s assignment this week: Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!): 1.  Where did you go the first time you moved out of your parents home?  Did you have roommates? Did you live by yourself?  Did you get married right away?  Tell the story - your children and grandchildren will want to know! 2.  Share your story in your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or on Facebook.  Please leave a comment with a link to your post here. I lived at home until I was about twenty-five. I had paid my way through college, but had the luxury of living at home. Luckily, what side jobs I had paid for the school fees and books and the transportation costs of BART rides and AC Transit busses. I lived in Walnut Creek and attended California State Univers...

It's  Saturday Night  - Time for more  Genealogy Fun! Our mission (from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing ), should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to: 1) What are the major news events that happened during your life that you remember where you were when you heard about them? 2) Tell us in your own blog post, or in comments to this post, or in comments on Facebook.  As always, please leave a link to your work in Comments. When John F. Kennedy was assassinated on 22 November 1963, I was in the fourth grade at Parkmead Elementary School in Walnut Creek, California. The principal, I think it was Mr. Sloan, announced it over the loud speaker. We all sat there in the class in silence, not believing it. I do not believe we went home early. I do remember classmates talking about it in the lunch line. The T.V. was on all weekend at home—I think that was the only programming that was on. As I think back on it now,...