Filed in Photographs,Techno-Genealogy

I bought myself what I wanted for Christmas – a slide scanner.  I couldn’t put it under the tree and wait the next few weeks before I got a chance to use it.

Why wait?  If you didn’t know it already, I can be very impatient. 🙂

Later I’ll write a post on the model I bought and what I think of it.  I had it up and running very quickly.

And I have been finding such great pictures amongst these piles of slides.  Stuff I haven’t seen in years.  Stuff I had forgotten.

Like my 2nd birthday party, complete with Bert & Ernie cake.

Or my 3rd.  Gotta love Snoopy.

Or my 8th with a Care Bear cake.  I’m rockin’ that side ponytail.  Love the jelly bracelets all the way up my arm too.

I even found an embarrassing one of me powdering our entire bathroom.

And a great one of my brother!

And here is my other brother with a giant zucchini!

I am having so much fun!!!

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I’ve been waiting on a death certificate for the final proof for my DAR packet.  I needed something that listed Matilda Jane Brittain’s parents and I had been hoping for her death certificate.  I can get it, but it’s going to take some waiting.

Lucky me, I got a present in the mail the other day.  A marriage record for Matilda’s second marriage, to Jasper Marion Miller.  It lists both of her parents!!!

Now I need to get all of my papers together and see if I can finally get this thing submitted!

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I have no idea when this picture was taken.  I actually don’t even know who is in it, but I am guessing that it is either Melhus or Sanchez family.  I think that the man on the right looks like he may have been a Melhus – one of Patricia Melhus Sanchez’s brothers.  This is purely speculation though.

Look at all of the tinsel on the tree!!

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Filed in Melhus,Sanchez/Sanchez-Tereso,Wordless Wednesday

I know for a fact that the woman in the bottom picture is my great-grandmother, Patricia (Melhus) Sanchez.  I am assuming that it is also her in the upper picture.  She looks to be of the same build and has the same tights/shoes on.  I am also assuming that these were taken on the same day since it’s pouring down rain in both – and in both she is holding a large bunch of flowers – what kind I can’t tell.

My question is, why was it so important to be picking these flowers while it was obviously raining outside?  It looks like a hot-cocoa-by-the-fireplace kind of day to me. And why take a picture of this?  Was she going to a gravestone with flowers?  I will probably never know, but I’d sure love to hear your ideas!

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