My Trails into the Past

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:  It's  Saturday Night  again -  Time for some more  Genealogy Fun!! Our mission from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings to to: 1) Sunday, 11 May is Mother's Day in the USA.  Let's celebrate it by showing some of our photos with our mother.   2)  Extra credit:  What did you call your mother during her life?  What did your children call your mother?   3)  More extra credit:  Have you written a biography or tribute to your mother?  If so, please share a link if you have one. 4)  Share your photo(s) on your own blog post or in a Facebook or SubStack or BlueSky post.  Leave a link on this blog post to  help us find your Mom photos. Here's mine: 1. I have several photos of my mother. She did not like her photo taken and hid from the camera. With me, Easter 1955 Preparing a feast 4-generation shot with her mother, me & granddaughter 2. We called her "Mommy" until ...

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's  Saturday Nigh t again - Time for some more  Genealogy Fun!! Here our assignment from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings : 1)  Sunday is Mother's Day in the USA, and usually a time for memories and gratitude to our special birth person. 2)  For this week's SNGF, tell us three things about your mother that are special and memorable  to you. 3)  Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook Status post.  Please leave a link in a comment to this post. Here's mine: My mother was Lela Nell (Johnston) Hork (1934-1992). She was born in Texas but came to California during the 1940s. She met my dad, William J Hork (1930-2007) at the Walnut Festival in 1951 and double-dated a week later. They married 19 April 1953 at Queen of All Saints Church in Concord. They had six children and I’m the oldest. 1. My mother was very artistic. She had a little studio in back o...