My Trails into the Past

It's Saturday Night , time for more Genealogy Fun !! For this week's mission from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing , is to answer the question: 1)  Memories of the ancestors we knew and loved need to be told to the younger generations.  2)  Tell us about your memories of a grandparent that you knew and loved.  If they all died before you knew them, tell us about a parent or a favorite aunt or uncle. 3)  Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment on this blog post, or in a post on Facebook. My Nana My grandmother, Anna Marie Sullivan Hork, was born 15 October 1892 and died on Valentine’s day in 1979. I remember because my parents had a party for the immediate family and Dad got the call from one of his sisters telling him Nana had died. The funeral was a few days later at St. Matthews Catholic Church in San Mateo, California. Afterwards, we went to my Aunt Virginia’s house where the after gathering could have been called an ...

Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to: 1)  Judy Russell asked six questions in her 2014 Keynote address at RootsTech to determine if audience members knew certain family stories about their parents, grandparents and great-grandparents.  She demonstrated very well that family stories are lost within three generations if they are not recorded and passed on to later generations. 2)  This week, I want you to answer Judy's six questions, but about YOUR own life story, not your ancestors.  Here are the questions: a)  What was your first illness as a child? b)  What was the first funeral you attended? c)  What was your favorite book as a child? d)  What was your favorite class in elementary school? e)  What was your favorite toy as a child? f)  Did you learn how to swim, and where did you learn?   3)   Tell us in your own blog post, or in a comment to this post, or in a F...