DearMYRTLE - 17 Jan 2006 DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour

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17 Jan 2006 DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour

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DearREADERS & LISTENERS,
This is the lineup for this week's genealogy podcast, now available for you review 24/7. Please also note the "Links We Mention" and "Listening to the Show" directions below. Myrt's guest this week is

Karen Sladek, award-winning author of LUCKY STARS & GOLD BARS: A World War II Odyssey, published 7 Dec 2004. See: http://www.luckystarsandgoldbars.com "Lyle discovered the “beautiful world of mathematics” and, at the age of 17, set off for Brookings, South Dakota to enroll in engineering at the State College in the fall of 1941. Lyle had barely cracked open his freshman textbooks when the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor turned his world upside down.

One year later, Congress lowered the draft age to 18 and Lyle became subject to being called up. While considering his options, he came across a brochure on the physics department bulletin board—the Air Corps was looking for college students with a background in physics and mathematics. Lured by travel and adventure, Lyle applied. The excitement and glamour of airplanes fired his imagination."

Ol' Myrt here was totally enthralled by this book, a combination of:

transcribed letters

photos & maps

snippets of historical events reported via radio & newspaper

Perhaps more importantly, the book has a reader to take action. It has prompted Myrt to ask different questions of her father about his WWII military experience during her upcoming visit in about a month. For instance, I've heard of victory gardens, but never thought to ask if Dad's mom had one. I didn't ask Dad where he was when he heard about the bombing of Pearl Harbor, or what his mother (my Grandma Myrtle) said to him in letters back and forth while he was in the service. What were his favorite songs of the era? What did he do on furlough? THANKS to this marvelous book, Ol' Myrt has some background and a place to start the conversation with dear ol' Dad!

LINKS WE MENTION

Find a Family History Center - http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp
Family History Library Catalog FHLC - http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp
FHLC entry for a digitized book titled A genealogical register of the descendants of Moses Cleveland of Woburn, Mass., an immigrant in 1635 from England, with a sketch of the Clevelands of Virginia and the Carolinas by James Butler Cleveland of Oneonta, N.Y.

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Happy family tree climbing!
Myrt :)