I have migrated this blog to a new site. My website http://www.mcwieser.info/mcleland-wieserfamily/ is now hosting the blog directly. I will leave this blog hosted on WordPress for a few months but please redirect any RSS feeds to www.mcwieser.info/relay Thanks for reading. And keep on posting comments.
Heather
Archive for the ‘musings’ Category
Moving on
Posted in musings on July 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Battering at brick walls
Posted in musings on February 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Miriam over at Ancestories had a post regarding posting about brick wall ancestors. That got me thinking, not about posting about my brick wall ancestors – which I should do. But about how some brick wall ancestors are stumpers for everyone who comes in contact with them. And about how every line has them in [...]
Thomas Asher McLeland – Part Two – Family Man and Government Employee
Posted in McLeland, musings on January 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Once T.A. returned to Deer Creek, from the Civil War, his married life truly began. He and Caroline Decker McLeland began married life as farmers on the rolling prairies of SW Kansas. Over the next 20 years, they had 8 children and buried 3 as infants. Life was not easy for them but they got [...]
I lied – about the remodeling that is.
Posted in musings on May 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I really thought, back in April, that we would be mostly done by now. But here it is nearly the end of May and still no kitchen sink. At the moment the back wall of the house is gaping open. We’ve had to replace a sill plate and make a hole for the plumber to [...]
Who would have guessed that remodeling would take so long
Posted in musings on April 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
And absorb me so completely. I’ve neglected this blog so totally I’m almost ashamed. But the end is in sight. Countertops are installed tomorrow and then the final electrical and plumbing next week and then we can use the newly redone kitchen. The floors and walls in the rest of the main floor are done [...]
Genealogical Serendipity a.k.a. the power of the Internet to make connections
Posted in Anstoetter, musings, research notes on February 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This lovely photo shows Bernard Joseph Anstoetter and Lidwina Kramer just after their wedding in Dyersville, Iowa, December 1919. My mother in law, child of Ben and Lydia had one of the rarest surnames I’ve ever researched. Every person in the United States with the surname Anstoetter/Anstoeter was directly related to her within [...]
A new database at Seattle Public Library
Posted in musings on January 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t usually write about work (much) but I’ve been having alot of fun with a new database we’ve recently subscribed to. America’s GenealogyBank is lots of fun. I been reading the social news for early 20th century Dallas. Looks like I married into the wrong branch of the family :> There is a nice [...]
Its snowing!
Posted in musings on December 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
What is it about snow in the Pacific Northwest? It makes me all giddy and kid-like. My kids come in with red noses, ears and appendages. Our snow is wet, wet, wet. Not usually good snowball snow. But that doesn’t seem to matter to them. Of course they’ve never known any other kind of snow. [...]
Houston, we have insulation – please beam up the drywall!
Posted in musings on November 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Our 100 year old house is now wearing blue jeans. Very trendy recycled blue jeans. We used an amazing “green” insulation product made from recycled denim. They say mostly post consumer, which to me means blue jeans. The walls are now blue. Really. The rooms are amazingly quiet, which is a side effect not the [...]
Note – New blog name
Posted in musings on November 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Maybe it is silly but I decided I wanted a blog name that better reflect how I think of genealogy, family history and all that jazz. So behold the new name -Relay – A Family History Blog. A small change but I feel better some how.
