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Illustrating the Point
DearREADERS,
From a public genealogy mailing list at RootsWeb we read:
From: June
Booth <June@bootha.com>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 6:21 PM
To: PERSONAL-HISTORIAN-USERS-L@rootsweb.com
Subject: [Personal-Historian-Users] Eventful morning
I just spent a very gratifying morning clearing up some facts on my
childhood. I recall going to the Golden Gate Exposition in San Francisco
sometime in 1939 or 1940. And have a picture of my mother and myself
sitting on the edge of a big fountain there in San Francisco.
Going onto the internet, I just typed in Golden Gate Exposition into my
Google search engine. Looking at various sites that Google brought up, I
found an aerial picture of Treasure Island where the Exposition was
held. I could see the fountain in that picture.
I saved the picture and pasted it into the story I am writing about that
trip. I also found a picture of a ticket stub that was used at that
Exposition. I also copied and pasted that into my story.
I had been unsure as to the year we went to San Francisco, but from the
picture and the memories I had of it, I decided we were there in 1940,
early in the summer before the exposition closed. I was also able to
gather some facts about the event as well.
Just finding little tidbits like that will really help your personal
history come to life. |
DearREADERS, this was my reply:
I think pictures are an important part of pulling together our personal
histories. My grandchildren will never know life as I knew it as a child (no
locks on our front doors, etc.) But if I continue to write my personal history,
I can describe life in the "olden days" so they can see outside the
box of their life experiences.
To that end, I have gathered some circa 1950s postcards of Puyallup Washington's
daffodils, and  some
others depicting the sites in the Seattle area. I purchased them online through
EBay. I plan to use these to "illustrate" my personal history. I
remember going to visit my Grandma Myrtle (Weiser) Player Severinson in
Puyallup, and attending the Daffodil Parade. She used to give me a little money
so I cold go down the street for bubble gum and candy at the Piggley Wiggley.
She had a detached garage, with a huge flower garden on the side. I remember
that she grew delphiniums and peonies. Strange sounding names for pretty
flowers, eh?
Happy family tree climbing!
Myrt :)
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