I like History

I have always liked reading and studying

about History.

When we travel or move to a

new place, I like to find out the

History of the area and people.

We traveled to Baltimore for the first

time earlier this month. We visited

the Civil War Museum in the 

Inner Harbor area.

It is housed in a restored Train Depot.

The museum is quite small...just the first

floor of the building...but has some

wonderful displays and information.

Imagine living through a war,

right in the area you live....

Here in Utah, we just celebrated

Pioneer Day...July 24...the day

the first Pioneers came into the

Salt Lake Valley.

The pioneers started in the Eastern part

of the USA, some coming from 

Europe, and crossed the country,

pushing hand carts or traveling

by wagons.

Both my parents had ancestors who

crossed the plains, settling in

Utah and Idaho

(and eventually California)

We are lucky to have a journal

from a Great Great Grandfather

describing his travels from England.

I also like to research Family

History or Genealogy.

I am an adopted person and

have meet some of my biological

people over the last 20 years.

They have shared the names

and vital info about their

ancestors and some of their

history with me.

This is Esther,

my paternal Grandmother.

She raised a family of 5 children

on a small plot of land in

Western New York state.

This is my daughter.

She is raising her family on

a small plot of land in Utah.

I love seeing the physical

features they share, passed

down through Time.

I like History!

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Quilt meeting today

B-17 in flight

I am headed out to quilt meeting in a few minutes. I have my 2nd row of the vintage quilt along with my MIL quilt top (not quilted...yet) to share in show n' tell. I am looking forward to the meeting today. I need something quilty to get me going again.

I have kept at the indexing. Currently, the Irish birth records for 1944. Still the usual names, except a new girls name has shown up that was extremely popular....Carmel. Ever hear of it? Me either! These records were right at the end of World War II....was Carmel a favorite actress or something/someone to do with the War? It's very time consuming indexing these birth records...each record of 2 pages/2 columns each page is about 300-500 names. A lot more reading than the average 100 names in the USA Census records.

I really enjoyed watching General Conference (Church)on TV Saturday and Sunday. I especially liked a talk about being a young mother. Now, I am very far from a young mother, but the advice to any mother was good....the idea that you have these little spirits for such a short time and you need to make every moment count, but you need to also take care of your own physical/emotional/spiritual needs or you won't be any good to anyone!

Between conference sessions on Saturday Hubby and I went to the Hill Air Force Base air museum and Roy city museum. I had been to the air museum before ( a long time ago) but not the Roy museum. Both were very interesting. Growing up with a Dad who designed and flew bomber airplanes, it was interesting to look at the results of some of his labors. The museum had a B-17, which he flew and a B-1 which he helped design. The Roy museum was a fun little city museum. They had 3 quilts that I tried to photograph, but the quilts had plastic over them for protection that showed shiny in the photos.

I got the receiving blankets and burp clothes made for the baby shower that V went too. Mommy to be sent a verbal thank you for the cute fireman blanket. I also made a block for the retiring President of the Utah Quilt Guild....very easy block in tropicals and white. I used the scraps from an old lavalava (skirt type clothing worn in Samoa) I had left over from when I was a kid in Western Samoa. I fussy cut out the words "Talofa" and "Samoa" for the block-Talofa means hello/love you/welcome...kind of like Aloha. I also cleaned out my closet in the sewing studio...very scary! I was going to try and get another service quilt finished for the Cancer project, but it didn't happen. Oh well, there is always next month!

What are your doing in your quilting World?

What a week!

I got looking at my blog and realized it had been a few days of no posting...the days have been just flying by this week.

I got involved in a few new postcard exchanges: Things with feathers, Springtime, Critters and Museum art postcards. This week I 've gotten cards from all parts of the USA, Malaysia, New Zealand, Australia, and Europe. The best card? The one from my niece J and her family in the Azores (South of Portugal).

When last I posted I was taking dinner to the new three. It went great. We had baked chicken with onions, cold mustard potato salad, brown rice done in a chicken stock with mushrooms, rolls, tropical jello salad with mandarin oranges, pineapple and raspberries(from my vines), plus a couple of veggies. For dessert....E's favorite....apple cobbler. Her MIL loved the dinner and not having to cook for a change....said we should do this once a week! I had planned to steal baby Tayge, but he had a meal of his own in mind, so E spent most of dinner nursing in the other room. It sure was hard to go home. I just didn't get enough baby/grandma time!

I have not sewn for an entire week....very strange! I am going to make a couple of receiving blankets for a baby shower tomorrow-another boy. My sewing room is so clean, I almost hate to destroy it!

I have done alot of indexing for the Family History program this week. The project did a major computer upgrade on Tuesday, and now it is even easier/faster to index. The 1905 Wisconsin Census is finished, so now I am doing the Irish 1945-1958 death index. The most common names: Boys-Thomas, Michael, Patrick and James....Girls:Mary, Margaret, Bridgit, and Ann/Anne/Annie/Anna.

On to the sewing room.........

Babies, quilting and more

Tayge at one day old...cute, huh! I promise, I won't be posting a new baby photo everyday. I just couldn't resist....he's so beautiful! I actually heard him cry yesterday. The little family of three are settling down at home.

I have done other things beside gaze at the most handsome baby boy. I worked on a art quilt...I used the background that was going towards the scripture quilt. It now has black circles and half circles added to it.

I also went to lunch yesterday with two of my brothers and Dad. We went out for a fish lunch, then went and decorated my Mom's grave for her (what would have been) 85th birthday. My brother R bought beautiful pink roses. We also put tulips on our Grandparent H graves-right next to Mom and some of the roses on Great Aunt G's grave. The cemetery has taken down a building and some plantings, so it took us a while to find the graves.

Today, I am back to house cleaning, a sewing machine class this afternoon and getting ready to go to the Temple tomorrow morning. I have been working on my bio families genealogy for about 12 years now. There is about 4000 plus people in my bio-father's file. Lots of Temple work to do yet!

Baby Names

Before you get too excited, my grandson has not made his debut....little stinker! The Doctor was so sure he'd be here 2 weeks ago, but it looks like E will go all the way to her due date (26th)...maybe beyond! Mommy-to-be does not look happy!

She and B have decided baby boy is to be named Tayge Michael. Tayge (Sage or Gage with a "T") is a name they like. I thought maybe it was something they had made up, but when I mention it to friends, they always know another Tayge/Tage. Michael is after B's brother and E's twin....B's family has the tradtion that the boys get their middle name from their uncles (parents brothers).

I got thinking about baby names. I volunteer as a indexer for my Church. I log onto a online site and download historical records. I then type out what I think the records show and send the batch back to the indexing project. Currently, I've been doing the 1905 U.S. Census records for Wisconsin. Two of us indexers each send our version of the same batch, then a third person compares ours to the original record and the final info is put out for genealogist to research online.

Okay, after that long rambling story...baby names. It's interesting to me how today you can yell "Jessica" or "Brittney" or "Tyler" and a bunch of kids will answer you. In the 1905 Census, there is not a Jess, Brit or Ty to be found. The big names at the time for boys were John, Charles, Henry and Fred. For girls, there was Mary, Margaret, Bertha and Adaline. It's interesting to see how popular names come and go. With my name Suzanne, I know numerous Suzanne's and we are all in our 40s-50's, but I haven't meet another Suzanne out of that age group.

I wonder what it is going to be like in another 20 or 50 years when folks look back at our records and say, "What did they name that baby?"