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I took my scouts on a field trip yesterday. We went to Beck Leather & Craft to do a couple of crafts for their Craftsman Activity Badge. They made foil pictures and leather slides. On [...]
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And…it’s half a house!
And…I am my own Grandpa!
Well, I live in Utah! As you know, sometimes our genealogy is very interesting. Well, here in Utah, we are very fond of this song - and someone, so kindly, put it to pictures!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You are going to LOVE it!
I Am My Own Grandpa!
What Was Next?
Prohibition was the encouragement for the next phase in the Saloons…If you haven’t followed the story - it is in the genealogy category.
Once prohibition hit, the saloons were out! So, as not to break the law, the saloon in Midvale became a Drug Store (we are very law abiding citizens - and always have been). [...]
Geoealogy - more and more and more!
So, this is definitely one of the saloons (if you are following my story - if not click on the genealogy category and get caught up). This could be my Great Uncle Bertram - since it is the B.H. Vincent Club. That definitely sound like the name of a saloon. I don’t know which is [...]
Genealogy
Genealogy - How do you spell that word anyway? As you can see, I have spelled it many ways, but I looked in the dictionary and this is the official spelling “genealogy.” Alas, let’s get on with the humor!!!!
Genealogy
A little girl asked her mother, ‘How did the human race appear?” The mother answered, ’God made Adam and Eve and [...]
Genealogy (the rest of the story)
Do you remember this picture from my March 12 post? Well, as Paul Harvey would say, “This is…the rest of the story.”
Actually, I called my cousin Kim (who actually was the one that sent me the pictures). He did know the story - and I had a little bit of it correct and a little [...]
Is this the Salt Lake County Sherrif’s Office?
I called my dad to get a more accurate story for the genealogy photo uploaded a couple of days ago (I like the current story, but for the sake of accurate history, felt the need to double check everything. This is the way the phone conversation went…
Me (in a moderately loud voice, so my dad [...]
Genealogy - what a miraculous thing!
So, this is a picture from long ago, of a relative of mine. The word on the street is that a great grandfather or a great-great grandfather of mine was playing poker. The stakes were high, very high, so high that my my grandfather won three saloons and a drug store in the last hand. [...]










