My Trails into the Past

It's  Saturday Night  - time for more  Genealogy Fun! Our assignment tonight from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing is to: 1.    He found an image on Facebook that said: “If you were blessed to know your Grandma…what was the one thing that you remember most about her?” 2.   Write a post in response to this comment. Here’s mine: I was fortunate to know both my grandmothers, Anna Sullivan Hork, who we called Nana, and Pansy Louise Lancaster Johnston, who we called Mam-ma. Nana was the fun grandmother and Mam-ma was not, though once we became adults, it was much better. Nana Nana raised four children; my dad was the youngest. She taught elementary, particularly the lowest grades, and also CCD classes at the catholic church. This shows she was used to being around young children. She liked to read to us and knew great songs, teaching them to us as we washed dishes. I still have old school readers she kept when withdrawn from Williams School...

It's  Saturday Night  -  Time for more  Genealogy Fun!   Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing ’s mission today is: 1) What happened in the world on the day your maternal grandmother was born?  Tell us the date, the place, and find a newspaper page for that date, ideally from the place she was born.  What are some of the headlines?  What was the weather?   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. My response: Well, on 30 June 2018, we had the choice of doing this for either grandmother, and I had done my maternal grandmother at that time here . So, this week, I will do the same for my paternal grandmother. Anna Marie Sullivan was born on 15 October 1892 in Anaconda, Deer Lodge Co, Montana. Her parents were John H. Sullivan and Anna Marie Gleeson. [1] I found The Anaconda Standard on Newspaper...