My Trails into the Past

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:  It's  Saturday Night  again -  Time for some more  Genealogy Fun!! O ur assignment from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings is to: 1)  Family stories are often about "Turning Points" and "Major Decisions."   2)  This week, please describe a "Turning Point" in the life of one of your parents (or for both of them, or for grandparents).  Describe the decision, and discuss the outcome of it. Here's mine: A turning point in my father, and his sisters’ lives was when his mother and father separated sometime in the 1930s. They were living in Southern California. He was probably five or six, maybe even seven. I don’t know what year the split was. The 1937 Pomona city directory lists his dad, William Cyril Hork along with wife, Anna, at 215 ½ N. Euclid Avenue in Ontario. [1] By the 1940 census, they were listed apart. She lived at 236 East Foothill Road in Cucamonga, [2] while he lived at 215 ½ N ...

Views of Easter past: 1957 In front of my grandmother's house 1961 side yard on E 9th Street, Pittsburg - My sibs  plus two cousins 1968 On our way to church Early 70s 1988  1998 Copyright © 2022 by Lisa S. Gorrell, My Trails into the Past. All Rights Reserved.

It's a quiet day in our home this year, however we can hear the Easter Egg hunts in the neighboring houses where young children still live. I thought today I'd share some family photos of Easters past. 1955 at Lisa & Lea at Nana's on Easter 1968 Ready for Church Margaret & Elizabeth at the Mall 1998 Easter at Dad's with extended family Copyright © 2021 by Lisa S. Gorrell, My Trails into the Past. All Rights Reserved.

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's Saturday Night again - time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Randy Seaver of GeneaMusing has a new assignment for us this week: Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!): 1) It's Father's Day in the USA on Sunday, so let's talk about our fathers.  2)  Show us your favorite photograph of your father - the one that shows him in the best light possible.  Describe the occasion, the setting, and the people in the photograph. 3)  Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or in a Facebook post. I am the first born child of my parents, William “Bill” J. Hork and Lela “Lea” Nell Johnston.   My next brother was born just two years and five months later.  This photo, one of my favorites, shows my dad, my mother, my brother, Steve, and myself on Easter Sunday in 1957, just outside the house of mother’s parent’s, who lived at 30...