Do people still bronze baby shoes? I don’t ever see that anymore. I know that I didn’t do it for any of my kids.
I kind of wish that I did though, because I absolutely love this little shoe. Isn’t it beautiful?
It was my mom’s and I think it’s the perfect little family heirloom.
Do you have a bronze baby shoe?
A couple of weeks ago, I posted a picture of my Great-Aunt Elvy and Great-Uncle Gunnar in their Swedish Dancing group. Here is another picture of them, from the Seattle Times, April 23, 1933. They are the ones dancing on the left.
Wow, I’m getting this one in at the last second. 🙂
We’ll announce our best blog posts from the previous year (in this case, 2010) in the following 5 categories: Best Picture (that would be a photograph), Best Screen Play (story you would make into a movie including the cast), Best Documentary (investigative research), Best Biography, Best Comedy. Write up a blog post with links to your best articles in these categories and submit it to the COG! Feel free to use the iGene graphic if you’d like. The deadline for submissions is February 1st
The best of 2010!
Best Picture:
This year’s “Best Picture” award goes to 1900’s Schoolroom. It is a beautiful old postcard-type photograph of some very well-behaved elementary school children. Hands clasped and in their Sunday best in a small town Minnesota school.
Best Screen Play:
I would love to see a movie made from my Papa’s WWII experiences. He earned 18 battle stars and a purple heart while serving as a Marine on the USS Cabot in the Pacific. I can’t even imagine what he went through. His ship was hit by a kamikaze, which is when he was wounded.
Best Documentary:
The “Best Documentary” award goes to Those Places Thursday: Herencia, Ciudad Real, Spain. It documents the history of this small Spanish town during the time period that my ancestors lived there. I still have a lot of unanswered questions, but I learned a lot by doing some simple research.
Best Biography:
Looking through my posts, I realized that I’m severely lacking in full-up biographies of my ancestors. Something to work on, definitely. I chose a post entitled “Madness Monday:Hedger Pierce“. I have still yet to find who his parents are, but I did finally find his death date!!
Best Comedy:
My Life is Laundry won for best comedy – although it’s true and I don’t know that I find it very funny! 🙂
Here is the inventory of Thomas Moorman’s estate, which was recorded January 27, 1767 in Bedford County, Virginia. He was my 6th great-grandfather. I was unsure how to transcribe the symbols and some of the strange abbreviations, so I have left them out for now. If you know how to put them in (or where to find them on the keyboard)and what they mean, I’d appreciate it. 🙂
Moorman’s Inventory
Inventory of the Estate of Thomas Moorman Deceased Appraised by the Subscribers Agreeable to an Order of Bedford Court.
Negroes Viz + 1 Wench Named Moll S.60″0″0
1 Do. Do. Dinah 70″0″0
1 Do. Do. Moll 40″0″0
one Negro Fellow his Eye Sight fail + Named Sam 10″0″0
1 Negro Wench Named Hanah 55″0″0
1 Do. Girl Do. Jean S.40″0″0
1 Do. Do. Jude 38″0″0
1 Boy Do. Dick 45″0″0
1 Girl Do. Named Philis 30″0″0
1 Boy Do. Do. Gloster 20″0″0
1 Do. Do. Puter 50″0″0
Stock 38 head of Cattle a 46″10…..46″10″0
28 head of Hogs a 8 …….8″0″0
1 Yallow Bay Horse a 9 …….9″0″0
1 Gray Mare…7…..7″0″0
1 Dark Bay Horse…8….8″0″0
1 Sorrell Horse + Bell…8…8″0″0
1 Bay Horse…3…3″0″0
Potts…3 9….3″9″0
Pewter…5 12….5″12″0
Old Iron Axe and hoes plows…7″6″6
Beds + Furniture…40…40″0″0
1 Bag New Feathers…2 5…..2″5″0
House Hole Stuff Chares Table Desk…20″12″0
Lumber…10″17″3
Do…1″18″0
2 Silver Spoons…1″10″0
To sundrys amount….6″14″6
Given under out hands this 22 Decer 1766
Robert Russell
Robert Clerk
Chas Lynch
At A Court Held for Bedford County January 27th 1767
The Within Inventory and Appraisement of Thomas Moorman Decd Estate Returned and Ordered to be Recorded Teste
Ben Howard CBC
Eugenia V. Bergman was my great-grandmother. Her obituary was in the Seattle Times, page 21, dated April 16, 1960.
MRS. EUGENIA V. BERGMAN
Mrs. Eugenia V. Bergman, 72, of 1505 W. 60th St., died in a hospital yesterday.
Funeral services will be held at 1 o’clock Monday in Mittelstadt’s Ballard chapel. Burial will be in Mount Pleasant.
Mrs. Bergman, born in Sweden, came here 45 years ago. She was a charter member of Frihet Lodge, Order of Vasa.
Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Albert Rangwald, Mrs. Gunnar Kollen, and Mrs. Eleanore Sanchez, and a son, Walden J. Bergman, all of Seattle; a sister, Mrs. Olga Klarstrom, Milton Mass., and 12 grandchildren.
And here is a picture of her with her grandchildren.
I believe that it was taken at Christmas, 1956. That would have been 3 1/2 years before she died.
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