Weekly Rewind

Weekly Reading

Yesterday, footnote Maven unveiled the new Shades of the Departed - The Magazine. Beautifully designed, it is unlike any other e-magazine I have ever seen! I love how it looks just like a magazine and the pages turn when you read online but I also took advantage of the download version so that I can read it during my wait time at work.

I really enjoyed Jasia's, The Magic in Grandma's Parlor, at Creative Gene. Wonderful memories and disappointment all on a roll.

Becky Wiseman continues to share her travel advetures with us at Kinexxions. This week she traveled all the way back to 1740 with John Casper Stoever and Hebron Lutheran Church.

Judith Richards Shubert shared Henry Estel Slept Upstairs at Tennessee Memories. How lucky she is that a piece of her family's history has been so well preserved for two centuries!

Sheri Fenly lost her grandmother and shared her feelings with The Grandmother I Never Knew at The Educated Genealogist. I have estrangements in my family too and Sheri's experience reminds me that it's time to start building some bridges.

I often whine about how frustrating my mother can be. Thomas MacEntee reminded me just how fortunate I am with To Touch Mom's Face Again at Destination: Austin Family.

Tracing our female ancestor's lines can be difficult. Julie Cahill Tarr did a very nice job of sorting out people with the same name with Finding Sarah Janes Ward's Parents at GenBlog.

Marlys needs some help with, Q - WHAT is this thing?, at Hesch History. I'm not sure either. Hopefully someone will be able to give her an answer.

Jim and Cathy at Detour Through History are also looking for some help. They need help reading A Note About Valentine Coleman, which may be in German.

Becky Jamison, at Grace and Glory, wrote, What a Group Sheet Tells Me About My Grandpa. She took all the information and created a time line. Diane Haddad wrote, It Works! Writing a Family History Narrative, at the Genealogy Insider. Both give great tips for discovering what you have and what you need to research further.

Pam Warren had a great how-to article, Save a PDF Using Print, at Granny's Genealogy.


Carnivals and Roundups

There were over two dozen articles written about music and musical instruments for the 83rd edition of the Carnival of Genealogy. Janet Iles did a very nice job putting this edition together at Janet the Researcher. There is a great selection of articles to chose from, but why pick and choose when you can read them all! The topic for the next edition is, "What the Carnival of Genealogy has meant to you."

Lisa, at Small-leaved Shamrock hosted the 16th edition of the Carnival of Irish Heritage and Culture. The topic for the this 2nd anniversary edition was Irish Portraits. I'll be spending some time later today reading! The topic for the next edition is, "Genealogy Treasure 'Show and Tell.'"

The November Issue of the Graveyard Rabbit Carnival has been posted by Julie Cahill Tarr at The Graveyard Rabbit. Could you write your own Epitaph? The topic for the next edition is, "In the News."

Randy Seaver, at Genea-Musings, had his weekly "Best of the Genea-Blogs."

John Newmark, at TransylvanianDutch, had his "Weekly Picks."


My Week

I had a very productive week! I found a neat little tidbit at Google Books about my 4th great-grandfather. Of course then I became frustrated trying to find more information.

My indexing project is going slowly. I decided it would be best to do an every name index and start at the beginning. You don't realize just how many people you mention in a single post until you try to create a link to all of them! To date I have 50 index pages and have indexed through October 2007. I have a very long way to go........

The indexing project has had an unexpected side benefit. Because I am rereading everything I have written I am finding things I forgot I intended to follow up on. Way back on 25 March 2007 I posted a picture of my grandmother with a group of friends. This week I was able to contact a relative of one of the other women in the picture and share it with her. Maybe this week I'll track down someone else in the picture.

Working on other things, I haven't spent much time transcribing letters so I need to get to it.

Etola Robinson, Jan 10, 1909

Medford Okla 1 - 10 - 09
Dear Annie:

yours received I was very glad to hear from you.

Say but thise things you and Tamerson sent me are pretty. wonder which you made? The collar I think. They are booth so dainty: I cleaned of my dresser you know how my dresser is always stacked I washed the scarf and put the pincushion on there, got out the pretty hair receiver Tamerson sent me three years ago and which I have never used, put a few other things on it and it looks very pretty,

I was well remembered also Christmas. Sarah sent me cloth for a waist, Amelia a set of collar pins, Mrs. Northam a sweeping cap, Dr. Thomas a chiffon bowa I guess it should be called, for my neck and her sister a pretty white footing bow for my collar. Cleo gave me a black rusleen petacoat and my friends here gave me a few little things. so you see I faired very well. and O recd 7 poast cards. ment to send you folks new years cards but could not get any pretty ones. I made myself a present of a poast card album. got it for Cleo but someone else gave her one so I kept it for myself. I have 51 cards. Tamerson sent me the principel part of them.

I do not think you will have me when the five

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years are up. you know I did not promise to come back unless I prospered.

I am not loanly for I have made a few nice friends here, but I do long for the old frinds some times.

The switch you sent to me I took off the stems and cleaned the hair and made a switch and set of puffs out of it. Last week I sent it to Miss Darr for sale. If she sells it will devide the proceeds with you. If I do not get in other work this week shall go at your combings and get them in shape to sell.

I Wonder if you are having any cold weather last wednesday morning ot was t below zero here; then it warmed up and yesterday it was like spring, but turned cold and snowed a little in the night and has been groing colder all day untill at the "present writing" 9 P.M. it is decidedly chilly. I brought most of my bed out hear by the stove to warm. The wind is blowing hard and you know what that means when houses are not built very tight, and this one is decidedly loose.

Am sorry your mother does not become any stronger but it is not surprising. if we should live to be as old as she is we may consider ourselves lucky is we should be strong. well I shall have to close and make my bed + get into it. Tell Tamerson I shall write to her soon.

love to all and write soon. From your friend Toley.


A five year contract? And what kind of hairpieces is she making?


For more see:
Camfield Family Letters
Descendants of Sarah Ann Wisner
Michael Camfield


Robinson, Etola (Medford, OK) to “Dear Annie”
[Ann Camfield Carlisle]. Letter. 10 January 1909. Digital Images 1-2.
Privately held by Apple, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE,]
Snowville, New York. 2009.
[Carlisle Family, Box #1, Correspondence, 1909,
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan. 2008.]

Etola Robinson, Dec 23, 1908

Medford Okla.
Dec. 23 -08

Dear Anna:

Will try and write you a letter. don't know as I have much to write or much time to write it as I want to get this off on the next mail.

Am sending you and Tamerson little remembrance which I beg you do axcept with my love and good wishes of the season.

Am feeling better than when I last wrote the Reheumatism has left me but my sholders get tired with very little work.

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I recd some presents from S. B. yesterday. Sarah sent me white goods for a waist, Amelia some collar pins and Mrs. Northam a sweeping cap, all very pretty.

My Christmas ahs commenced early. Have an invitation out to christmas dinner and am going to Woolseys to spend new years.

Expect you will have to cook your own dinner. Wish I could be there to help you get it and to eat with you. wouldent we have one good old time?

Well I shall have to close and get this to the office. will write at greater length after holidays.

With good wishes to all I am as ever your loveingly yours. Toley

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Dear Tamerson,

If you do not like your puffs send them back + I will try to sell them for you. or if your hair is grown darker so they are not a good match, and you do like them send me some new combings and will make you another set. I left one of them done up so you could see how to cirl tham. the ought to hold the cirl for a few days I think. do each puff seperately. I did not get them devided very evenly maby you can do a better job next time they are done.

have not time to write more now as ever your loving friend
Toley


When and why did Toley move to Oklahoma? Is she nursing, sewing or doing something else.

Try as hard as I might, I can not form a mental image of the "puffs" that she sent Tamerson.


For more see:
Camfield Family Letters
Descendants of Sarah Ann Wisner
Michael Camfield


Robinson, Etola (Medford, OK) to “Dear Anna”
[Ann Camfield Carlisle]. Letter. 23 December 1908. Digital Images 1-3.
Privately held by Apple, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE,]
Snowville, New York. 2009.
[Carlisle Family, Box #1, Correspondence, 1908,
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan. 2008.]