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: “Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision.” 1)   What would you put into your own "Family History Time Capsule" for your descendants to open in the future?  What would you use for the capsule?  Where would you keep it?  Who should open it? Here's mine: This may be the only way some of our family artifacts would be saved. I would put in: **   Childhood items would be a troll from my troll collection, my Girl Scout vest, a Nancy Drew book, some baseball cards, high school senior yearbook, and a few miniature ceramic animals **   Young adult items would be a Neil Diamond record, ticket stub from a San Francisco Giants game, slides taken of my first trip to England, a Great Northern HO engine, and college transcript from CSUH. **   Beginning of married...

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 ) if we choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!): 1) Go to the dMarie Time Capsule Website -  http://dmarie.com/timecap/ 2) Select a date in your family history that you want to know about. You might pick a birth date or wedding date of your parents or grandparents. 3) Enter the date into the search form, and select the news, songs, toys, books and other things that you want to feature. 4) Share the date, why you picked it, and the results of your Time Capsule study on your own blog, in a comment to this post, or in a comment or post on Facebook. Here's mine: I picked my dad’s birthday of 23 April 1930. The results are here . Top News: On April 23, H. Van Gent discovered asteroids #1225 Ariane & #1267 Geertruida. He discovered more the next day...