My Trails into the Past

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's Saturday Night again - time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Our assignment from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing is to: 1) Let's talk about what we did as children (not teenagers or young adults) on our summer vacations from school.  2)  Write about your life as a child in the summertime (say, any age between 5 and 12).  Where did you live, what did you do, how did it influence the rest of your life? Here's mine: My first eight years of childhood was spent in Pittsburg, California. We lived in a two-story rental unit on East 9 th Street. As a young child, our yard felt large. We had lots of concrete, which was great for riding trikes, bikes, and peddle cars. The sidewalk was flat, but the driveway sloped down into the backyard. The peddle cars we had were chained-driven. I have never seen examples anywhere of these types of cars. My car was painted blue and I think it was supposed to be a Cadillac. My brother’s car was pain...

  It's  Saturday Night  -  time for more  Genealogy Fun!   Our mission from Randy Seaver of GeneaMusing is to: 1)  What is your favorite summer memory?  [Thanks to Linda Stufflebean for suggesting topics!] Here’s mine: I have many summer memories: playing in the creek, eating watermelon on the back patio, pretending to be a teacher and playing school with my younger siblings, barbequing hamburgers, going to the summer rec program, sleeping outdoors on super-hot nights, and reading in a cool, shady spot in the backyard. We took few vacations. We went once to the beach in Santa Cruz, spending a few days in a cabin in the redwoods and visiting the beach daily. We spent a week with my grandmother at her cabin in Nice, on Clear Lake. I spent three weeks with my grandmother, Nana, in Southern California and visited Disneyland for the first time. I spent a week after sixth grade at Twin Canyons Girl Scout Day Camp. I have no photos ...

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's Saturday Night again - time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Here is our assignment from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing :  1) Tell us about a memorable summer vacation when you were a child. What are your memories of summer vacations with your family? Did you travel? How? Did you visit extended family? Who? 2) Put it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook post. Please leave a link in a comment to this post. Here’s mine: The summer in 1969 was between my freshman and sophomore year. My grandmother, Anna M. (Sullivan) Hork, who we called Nana, wanted to go down to Pomona, California, and spend some time with her older sister, Loretto (Sullivan) Patterson. After three weeks, there would be a trip down to San Diego to visit with her daughter, Lorene (Hork) Waldron. She had done this trip many times and in 1969 I was invited to accompany her. I was both excited to make this trip with her, and equally scared. T...

Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing has another great topic this week. Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to: 1) Remember when you were 12 years old? On a summer day out of school? What memory do you have of fun activities? 2) Tell us about that memory (just one - you can do more if you want to) in a blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a comment on Facebook.  Please leave a link to your own post in comments on this post. 3)  Have you told your children and grandchildren about your childhood memories?  You really should. It was 1966 when I was 12. In that summer, I had just finished up 6th grade at Parkmead Elementary in Walnut Creek, California, and we had a whole summer before starting 7th grade at Parkmead Intermediate, which was located right next door to the elementary school. A typical summer was breakfast of cereal that we served ourselves. Then outside to play until called for lunch, when...