Filed in Treasure Chest Thursday

I posted a picture of my mom’s bronze shoe a few weeks ago. I think it’s such a great heirloom.

This week, I’m sharing a picture of my own baby shoes. Not bronzed. Very worn. Really, how could I have worn these out that much in the short amount of time they must have fit me? I must have fallen down in them a lot to have scuffed them so much.

You know what I love most about them?  The bells my mom attached to the shoelaces.  She must have done it so that she could keep track of me.  I must have jingled everywhere I walked. 🙂

Do you still have your baby shoes?

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Filed in Sanchez/Sanchez-Tereso,Wordless Wednesday

Since I’m enjoying the beach this week while I’m on vacation in Florida, I thought I’d post a picture of others enjoying time in the sand.  They don’t look like they’re dressed for sunbathing though, do they?  I don’t think I’d be very comfortable dressed like that at the beach.  They must have simply gotten out for a picture. Sand in the shoes, how annoying.

I really have no information on this picture at all.  No idea who these women are, when this was taken (maybe in the 30’s), and what beach they might be at.  I see palm trees though and it looks like they were having a fun trip together! 🙂

This picture was amongst my Grandpa Don’s collection.  I am guessing that the woman on the right might possibly be one of his sisters.   Complete guess of course.  Do any of you recognize this beach?

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Filed in My Memories

We are going on a much-needed family vacation this week!!

And we’re not visiting anyone.  Not that I don’t like to go and visit people, because I do – especially since we live so far from everyone we know.  But the truth is, we always take leave to go see people and we rarely go on vacation simply to relax and get away.

No genealogy will be done on this vacation either, because I’m not related to Mickey or Donald or Goofy.  Well, maybe Goofy. 🙂

By the time you read this, we’ll be enjoying Disney World with the kids.

They’ve never been before, so they’re pretty darn excited. And honestly we are too.  Everybody loves Disney World, right?

But after a few days walking around the parks with 5 little kids, going on dizzying rides and a whole lot of waiting in line, we’re going to need a vacation from our vacation.  Am I the only one that ever feels this way?

So, after our days at Disney, we’re driving down to Key West.  Just because we can.

And so, I’ll leave you with a picture from my childhood.

We lived in Southern California for a brief time (my dad had a temporary job there and we kept our house in Washington).  We felt like we were on one big vacation.  Sea World.  The San Diego Zoo. Tijuana.  And of course, Disney Land.  This is me, my sister, and one of my brothers with Mickey (I’m on the right).  I believe this was the summer of 1984.

What fun memories.  I’m glad that I’ll be making some of these with my own kids this week. 🙂

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Filed in Moorman,Sunday's ObituaryTags: ,

Dr. John Jennings Moorman was my 4th great-grandmother’s younger brother.

He was resident physician at the White Sulphur Springs resort (Greenbrier) for many years and apparently wrote a memoir full of descriptions of the presidents and famous people he met while working there. He also wrote some books about the benefits of the water. I will write about all of that in more detail another time.

Today, I wanted to post his obituary, which I found while I was visiting Roanoke, Virginia last year. I wonder if he may have had another obituary written in West Virginia, where he lived for many years.  I also wonder if there may have been a more detailed obituary at a later date in this same paper, rather than a death announcement which this appears to be.  Sadly, it doesn’t give any biographical information or even list his relatives.

DEATH OF DR. MOORMAN – Dr. J.J. Moorman died at his residence in Salem last Thursday at 4 o’clock a.m.  Dr. Moorman has been for some weeks confined to his bed and his recovery scarcely hoped for, yet his death was quite a shock to the community.  He was 83 years of age and his long, useful and honored life has endeared him to all.  His funeral will take place this morning at 11 o’clock from the Presbyterian church in Salem.

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Filed in My Memories

My interest in family history began at an early age.  I was in the GATES program in elementary school.  We always got to do neat studies on various subjects, one of them genealogy.

I was about 10 when I did this project in 1986.  It didn’t go beyond my great-grandparents, but I was fascinated.  When you’re a kid, you tend to think in the now.  I thought it was so cool that my great-grandparents had immigrated from Sweden.  I had never met them, and definitely had never heard their names before.  Lars and Eugenia Bergman.  So foreign.

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We only worked on this for a few months and then moved on to another subject – maybe frog dissecting?  I can’t remember exactly.

Genealogy was shelved for me.

I didn’t revisit it again until I had my first daughter, almost 12 years ago.

I often wonder how much more information I could have gleaned had I asked my grandparents more questions when they were still alive.

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