Lacie's Genealogy Blog

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:   It's  Saturday Night  again -  time for some more  Genealogy Fun!! Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!): 1) What hobbies or pastimes other than "genealogy" do you have now or had in the past as an adult? 4)  Write about it in a blog post on your own blog, in a Facebook post, or as a comment on this blog post. I have a few hobbies, besides genealogy. I like music, writing, crafting, digital media, and reading. Music - I love the arts, especially  music. I play the cello. In the future, I hope to learn how to play many more instruments, but one is good right now. Writing - This is probably obvious since I write a blog, but writing is something I like to do. I have kept a digital journal on my tablet for two years now - close to three in September - to document day to day life and my feelings about things.   Recently, I have ...

Sepia Saturday   provides bloggers with an opportunity to share their history through the medium of photographs I haven't participated in Sepia Saturday in a couple of weeks. I will have to play catch up later, so stay tuned for those upcoming posts. This week's photo prompt features an electric tramway going down a curvy steep roadway. I thought about several ways to take this prompt, but I have chosen two ways - bridges and trams.  Credit: DBusiness Magazine The first photo is the Ambassador Bridge which connects Detroit to Windsor, Ontario, Canada. My parents rode on this bridge to go to Niagara Falls for their honeymoon. There is a Detroit-Windsor tunnel - which is an international border crossing to get to both cities, back and forth. FUN FACT: The tunnel is in fact underwater.  [1] Here is a vintage postcard of the bridge. Credit:  Detroit Public Library Digital Collections Trams   This photo was taken in the Detroit Metro ...

It's  Saturday Night  -  Time for more  Genealogy Fun!   Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to: 1) Did you or your children know their great-grandparents?   2) Tell us in your own blog post, or in comments to this post, or in comments on Facebook.  As always, please leave a link to your work in Comments.   I didn't personally know my great-grandparents. All of them died before I was born. I was five years too late as my last great-grandfather died in 2002. My older sister was alive during two of our maternal great-grandparents' lifespan. Unfortunately, she never got an opportunity to meet them.  As for my maternal cousins, it's a different story. They were born in 1984 and 1985. So they likely met a few of their five great-grandparents, if not all of them. I will have to ask my aunt to confirm if they got a chance to met a great-grandparent(s). My paternal ha...