This is a photo of my cousin standing on his father’s palm. I was told that it’s based on trust–the child has to trust the world. Not all children will do this. Of my uncle’s four children there are only pictures of two of them. … Read More →
Category Archives: family history
Earthquakes and Nightmares
Earthquakes For the past week I’ve had trouble sleeping through the night. One factor is Cleo, one of my two nine month old cats, has been attacking my feet in the middle of the night (I kick her out of the room when this happens). Another is … Read More →
More Paintings by Lizzie
I’m unable to post too many photos. I guess I haven’t learned to properly work with this site. So I’m doing yet one more posting to give you the the other paintings by Lizzie. I think that there were more. I know that my father … Read More →
The Goodwin Family Tree
The painting above was inspired by two photographs of my grandparents and by a painting by my Grandma Lizzie. It was painted by M Goodwin about 1969. M never titled it, but I titled it The Goodwin Family Tree. During the 1950s Lizzie took painting classes … Read More →
Family History Isn’t Always Pretty
Unlike genealogy family history isn’t always direct, linear, clean, or pretty. In genealogy you have a chart with names, dates, births, deaths, and marriages – the facts. As I mentioned in my last blog once we add the factor of pictures and place of births … Read More →
Looks Like a Brody
Family resemblence I heard from Birgit Wolz today. She took the time to look at what I wrote about her last week. She wrote “you look just like your grandmother”. I took no offense to that since she was referring to my Grandma Lizzie, not … Read More →
Family History, not genealogy
Often when I tell people I’m interested in family history they take it to mean genealogy. I’m not interested in that at all. I have three Mormon cousins, (my father’s brother Jerry’s wife Merilyn is Mormon) who have eighteen children between them, to take care … Read More →
The Anniversary Party
As I sorted through the photos I found many that I had never seen before. There was one set in particular–taken at my grandparent’s 40th and my parent’s 10th anniversary party in June 1957 that really set me on my explorations. The photo above shows … Read More →