To get to Kalamazoo from Detroit, you usually would do this. At certain times of day, or traffic conditions, this works better. Yesterday, I used the first route. The plan was to meet D2 near Jackson; we often do this to same time and gas for everyone. I was too early, and I knew D2 had …
May 2008 archive
May 07
Genealogy Blogs
Where are they? What are they? Are they useful? Read a little here on Cyndi’s list. Here is a small sample: Read the blogs written by Geneabloggers. There are tons more, some fun, some more like research diaries, and many informative blogs which describe library holdings, research techniques, or history of a certain area. Google …
May 07
Winnie A. (Kaiser) Yearnd Scrapbook, Page 14
Pages 6-13 contain photographs of living people, so I’ve kept them private. Page 14 again shows photos of my Dad, James Austin Yearnd. Dad was named for two uncles James Johnston, 1862-1940, was one of those uncles. James Johnston and Jane (Jennie) Johnston were the only siblings in a family of five known children who …
May 05
Winnie A. (Kaiser) Yearnd Scrapbook, Page 4
The fourth page of Sweetie’s scrapbook contains a collection of photographs of William H. Yearnd, Jr., 1917-1992. They seem to span his life up to the date Sweetie died. This one is of an infant: One shows a little boy on the beach, and one the same boy with his bike: The next two are …
May 02
Lincolnton, Georgia
I must say that the water levels are really down. Papa thinks the river might be 6 or 7 feet below the first time we were here, several years ago. It’s dusty in Georgia. We ran across some cows that got out last night. A sheriff was sitting by the side of the road with …
May 01
What Would You Take?
Some people can’t believe the way we travel, or perhaps they don’t understand how many ways there are to skin a cat. This trip is a scaled down one, as compared to taking Lex, or even the van, tent and some camping equipment. We had a bunch of free hotel nights, and decided to use them …
