My Trails into the Past

My daughters both participated in sports: in recreation groups, private classes, club teams, and high school teams. Some sporting activities were not even organized. An early photo of the girls roller-skating with a friend (in the center). And another playing miniature golf. Both girls also took gymnastics lessons for many years at the Tumbling Company. For organized sports, Elizabeth participated in soccer, track, and cross-country. Margaret’s organized sport was only in AYSO soccer. Her interests were in theater. They had a lot more opportunities to participate in organized sports that I did as a child. This is my fourth year working on this year-long prompt, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow. I will write each week in one of my two blogs, either Mam-ma’s Southern Family or at My Trails Into the Past. I have enjoyed writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. Copyright © 2021 by Lisa S. Gorrell, My Trails into the Past. All Rights Reserved.

It's Saturday Night again - time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Randy’s assignment this weeks is: 1)  What sporting activities did you participate in as a youth and as an adult? 2)  Tell us in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or on Facebook or Google+.  Please leave a comment on this post with a link to your post. Thank you to Lisa Gorrell for suggesting this SNGF topic. Thanks, Randy for choosing my topic. I don’t know if the timing is good or bad. This week’s 52 Ancestors category was Sports and I wrote about my two grandmothers, grandfather, father, and my sporting activities. I only wrote a little—just what I had a photo for. My first sport I remember playing was softball. There was a field two doors down from our house called Bertinoli’s field, as the family across the street owned the land. Later, when I was older, I realized it was just a small lot. But we were little—the oldest maybe 10, and only occasionally would anyone hi...

I am working on this year-long prompt, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow . I will write each week in one of my two blogs, either Mam-ma’s Southern Family or at My Trails Into the Past . I’m looking forward to writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. I thought I’d write about my immediate family who were active with sports. I played softball in high school with the recreation department. In college at Cal State University Hayward, I played softball in Freshman year and badminton in my junior or senior year (can’t remember which). My schedule was too hectic with science labs to play much sports in college. My dad (William J Hork) played football in high school in Napa, California, and could through the ball with either hand. He watched it actively until he died. He like to keep statistics of all the teams. Both my grandmother’s played sports. Nana (Anna Sullivan Hork) played basketball, tennis, and volleyball in college (Montana Normal College)...

Randy Seaver of Genea-musings has a new challenge today. * Tell us about your "other" hobbies or interests outside of genealogy and family history research, writing, speaking, etc.  Be mindful of your family's privacy, though!   * Write a blog post of your own, respond with a comment to this post, or write a Facebook status post or a Google+ Stream post. My immediate family thinks all I do is genealogy. It is true that every day I try to fit in genealogy as part of my day.  In the morning I check emails and Facebook to see what’s happening in the genealogy world. If someone describes a new database, I usually think of someone in my database that this might apply to and do a quick search. I also multitask while watching television with my husband, either writing a blog post, searching in Ancestry or FamilySearch, or entering data into my genealogy program. But I do find time to do other things. Exercise I try to play Pickleball three days a week (Mon/Wed/...

Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings has wonderful exercises for us to do on Saturday Nights. I don’t always participate but today’s assignment intrigued me. I knew just the images I wanted to have alongside my post. Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!): 1) It's Father's Day in the USA on Sunday, so let's talk about our fathers. 2) What did your father really like to do in his work or spare time? Did he have hobbies, or a workshop, or did he like sports, or reading, or watching TV? 3) Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or in a Facebook or Google+ post. My father, William J. Hork, loved sports: football, baseball, and golf. He played football in high school and could throw right or left handed as a quarterback.  Later he learned to play golf, but with a large family of six children, he found he didn’t have the resources to keep up with that sport. It didn’t keep him from w...