All (Old) Souls Day

All Saints or All Souls Day is technically November 2, but I celebrate it every time I open up Ancestry and I look at my family tree. I have traced both my mother and father’s trees back to 1500, which is when church records were kept. State Archive records kick in about 1700. Because I love history, I guess I could be considered an…

(Great Grandpa) Bishop Edward Waddington

WOW – my 7th Great Grandfather is a historic figure in England. Bishop Edward Waddington: Sunday “grab bag” …. My Mothers side of the family is turning out to be quite interesting. Exciting genealogy find today. I worked on puppet theatre set design, music and genealogy. Big fun Sunday! That was after weight lifting and cycling to and from the gym and cleaning the…

Revolution: Spaceship Earth

I’m reading a great book about the American Revolution by Rick Atkinson called “The British Are Coming”. I’m interested because using Ancestry, I found out that I have some British and German relatives who were in America before, during and after the Revolution. As we approach August, Summer is already 1/3rd done. Back to School sales start and swim meets go through their final…

Holoch-Buzzard Cemetery

In York County, Nebraska, there is a family cemetery called the Holoch-Buzzard Cemetery. A distant relative had moved from where he immigrated to on the east coast to Nebraska, where he got a 150 acre tract as part of a homesteading act. His name was Christian Holoch, and he was originally from the Stuttgart Germany area. He is a great Uncle of mine. That…

On The Road to the Summer Solstice

I always enjoy the Summer and Winter Solstices and the Vernal and Autumnal Equinoxes. Does this make me a pagan or druid? I do have Celtic and Germanic DNA. I’m equal parts Anglo and Saxon. I’m not religious, so I’m a WAS not a WASP. Hmmmm.

Kabarett 391

Back in the 80’s I played guitar and synthesizers in a band in San Francisco. We played mostly at The Hotel Utah, but other more divy bars in the SF Bay Area. I lived in SF between 1984 and 1994 – what I consider a real hey day and so much better than when the first “dot con” ruined the city – which happened…

Susquehanna

Quietly passingThrough hill and daleKeeping secretsIn her bridal veil 46 leaguesDown the riverA colonial womanMaria Magdalena Dear Great GrandmaRest in peaceOn the banksOf the Susquehanna ChorusThe river flowsThe passing years ebbEternal spring waterOur family web