Here it is Saturday night and we are in a NC motel with "iffy" wireless satellite. Mountain in NC are gorgeous. Wireless satellite in mountains is not so gorgeous. I have heard it is this way, but did not know how frustrating it could be to type a little, or reply to an email, or print a little, and then lose the connection. No telling how long I will be online tonight due to the sporadic connection.
Ken cousin Ruthie's husband enjoyed his 90th birthday party today at a friend's car renovation garage out in the country where they restore peoples high end cars and race three Mercedes: #1 and #2 (better than #1--Ha! Ha!) and a third Mercedes that is diesel. There are all other kinds of cars in there also: Lambroghini, Lotus, Porche, Ferrari, Mercedes truck that has a mower on the back. I'll share the photos on Picasa later if their is enough connection power this evening. There were about 20 people there for a lasagna dinner and birthday cake. Richard and Ruth's daughter Peggy, husband Ron, and Bear (giant pure bred German Shepherd were also there, driving from NW of Chicago.
We will begin our way home Sunday morning and head west on I-40 through Knoxville and head north some to go to Jacksboro, county seat of Campbell County, TN, where our Hollingsworth great-great grandfather James Daniel Hollingsworth and his family lived in the 1800s.
In Albany, Clinton County, KY on Friday, I found papers such as a will, land records, and guardianship papers for James Porter Hollingsworth's family who lived there in the late 1800s before moving to Fannin County, TX in the 1890s.
Ken is enjoying the end of the 6 hours of the Watkins Glen, NY Race. I'll try to print a little more so I will be prepared for the Campbell County, TN Courthouse. It is mostly important to have all the Hollingsworth surname ancestors, their children, their siblings, and their spouses' surnamed ancestors, their children, and their siblings, their birth dates, death dates, and any dates possible when they lived in the county being research before their family migrated to the next place. Sometimes it can be complicated, and sometimes it is hard to find what you would like to find.
Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend , and will have a safe week. Love, Linda
Sounds like you guys are having a great time! My dad's family is from North Carolina -- in the Durham area. I went there with my parents in the late fifties to visit his relatives. It was very interesting. One of his cousins lives in a historical old house where they hid slaves leaving the South heading north. It had all kinds of secret rooms and passages throughout the house and a huge old oak tree in the front yard. Someone had added a big thick board swing on one of the branches and we had a great time. That trip opened my eyes to real "country" living! Maybe that's why I'm really looking forward to moving to the Texas Hill Country. We're having a heat wave this weekend for SoCal; it's supposed to be in the triple digits here. We haven't had our air conditioner checked yet, so all of our fans are going full blast and the curtains are closed. Sometime today (later) I'll have to go out and give our orange trees a good soaking. We had a very relaxing weekend -- got haircuts and watched out tv recordings from a couple of weeks. They come few and far between, so we're taking advantage. Time for lunch now -- Love, Anne
ReplyDeleteHey, everyone, I had forgotten about this comment ability on the blog. I kept wondering why the new posts didn't show, and finally remembered that they could be comments, which they were, from Linda and Anne. It is hot here again today, high 60s. It was so sunny and warm down at Boulevard Park that we had to come home and get under the shade: thought that would give everyone who has been here a ho, ho moment. But to us, it was sweltering. Do you remember when we use to stick to the pews at church and then make that bandaid ripping off scritchy long sound when leaning forward to get the hymnal, or just to see how the sound was building? I always had a hard time not laughing when a whole pew line of people scritched in a pattern.
ReplyDeleteAgain, travel well. And be safe. Love, Llew