13 Ways Book Blog Tour Schedule - 2 weeks from today

Book Blog Tour

"13 Ways to Tell Your Ancestor Stories - 2nd Edition" 

Tour by Day and Event

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We hope you will stop by, and leave a comment, at each of our fine Tour participants, below!

Monday, Mar 25

Dr. Bill Tells Ancestor Stories
http://drbilltellsancestorstories.blogspot.com/
and Dr. Bill's Book Bazaar
http://drbillsbookbazaar.blogspot.com/

…get the tour underway. Giveaway at each site.

Tuesday, Mar 26 and Wed, Mar 27

Julie Goucher at Anglers Rest
http://anglersrest.blogspot.com/

Review on Mar 26
Guest Post and Giveaway on Mar 27

Thursday, Mar 28

Biff Barnes on Stores to Tell Books
http://www.storiestotellbooks.com/

Author Interview and Giveaway

Friday, Mar 29

Jason Crews on Genealogy Spheres
http://www.genealogysphere.com/

Author Interview

Saturday, Mar 30

Shannon Combs-Bennett on Trials and Tribulations of a Self-Taught Family Historian
http://tntfamilyhistory.blogspot.com/

Review and Giveaway

Happy Easter

Monday, Apr 1

Miriam J. Robbins at AnceStories: The Stories of My Ancestors
http://ancestories1.blogspot.com/

Author Guest Post and Giveaway

Tuesday, Apr 2

Julie Cahill Tarr on Writing Your Way to the Past
http://julietarr.blogspot.com/

Review

Wednesday, Apr 3

Jana Last on Jana's Genealogy and Family History Blog
http://janasgenealogyandfamilyhistory.blogspot.com/

Review and Giveaway

Thursday, Apr 4

Gena Philbert-Ortega on Gena's Genealogy
http://philibertfamily.blogspot.com/

Host Author Guest Post

Friday, Apr 5

Pam Schaffner on Digging Down East
http://diggingdowneast.blogspot.com/

Review

A Big Thank You to each Blogger Participating!


Bill ;-)




Families are Forever! ;-)

75 Years Ago This Week - March 1-7

75 Years Ago This Week

75 Years Ago This Week began March 1, 1938 - my mother and father were preparing to get married later in the month.

Over in The KINNICK Project blog, we had another week of daily entries from Mom's - that is Eileen Kinnick's - diary.

On March 3, Eileen went to Des Moines to watch the Girl's Basketball Game in the State Championships.

On March 4, we started to hear a lot about plastering and pulling down old wall paper at the farm house where they were planning to make their new home.

On March 6, her whole family joined in with painting in that house.

On March 7, new wallpaper arrived.
What will come next?



From the local newspaper in Coon Rapids, Iowa, the Coon Rapids Enterprise, 75 Years Ago:

March 4, 1938:
"Coon Rapids playing the outstanding game of the state tournament so far out played Fonda during their first round of the tournament to lead 23-3 at the half. The radio announcer
said that Coon’s team was the smoothest he had seen this season and Lund’s ball handling simply marvelous. Lund was credited with sinking 12 of these points, Grohe 6, and Johnson,6.
Coon’s defense led by “Tuffy” Parker had the Fonda girls baffled. Coon Rapids was there in force with Holliday’s school band furnishing music for the occasion. apparently Coon was
the popular outfit of this day’s play with half the town in attendance.
Playing in the first half for Coon were Lund, Johnson, Grohe, Parker, David, Anderson. Starting the second half, Lund was given a free throw and as usual, sunk it to make the score
24-3. At the end of the third quarter the score stood 37-6 in favor of Coon. Lund accounted for 20 of these points, Johnson, 10, Grohe, 7. Lund’s work was outstanding. Between quarters Holliday and his band got almost as much mention from the announcer.
By special wire from Drake fieldhouse at the end of the game we find Coach Christian shot in all of his reserves to finish the game, Whisler, Baker, Davis, Coder, Rogers, George.
Long shots were a feature and the final score was Coon Rapids 47, Fonda, 9."


Families are forever!  ;-)

Treasure Chest Thursday - Mom's Sheet Music and comments

Treasure Chest Thursday - Mom's Sheet Music and comments

Nearly fourteen years after her untimely passing, I still find artifacts from my mother that make me smile... this was a recent one! This many times used piece of sheet music, is not unusual among the items she left behind. The note on it, is so "HER!"

"My cousin Wilbur and wife Pauline danced to this song with the Kluckers singing & I played piano. They like to Polka, too, & Kluckers sang & I played."

The Kluckers were a group of local folks, in Coon Rapids, Iowa, that performed as an 'orchestra' for local organizations. I'll write on them more, one day. Today, I sit here pondering what inspired her to actually write this note on the from of this particular sheet of music...

Families are Forever!  ;-)

Wordless (nearly) Wednesday - Wrens - 40 years ago

Wordless (nearly) Wednesday - Wrens - 41 years ago

I was girl's softball coach in the summer league in Urbandale, Iowa, for several years

This was about three years in... Annette, on right, was pitcher and catcher.

Another year or two, we added teams at younger ages, and Allison, left, played for years.

Arrion, ball girl, here, also played for several years, until we moved to Tucson.

Very fond memories!

Thanks to Nancy, wife and mother, for strong support, by the way!  ;-)

Families are Forever!  ;-)

13 Ways Book Blog Tour - coming soon

Coming Soon

The stops on the 13 Ways Book Blog Tour will be posted here on

March 11, 2013.

The tour will begin on March 25, right here, and run for two weeks.

In advance of availability on Amazon.com, you may order your print copy of
"13 Ways To Tell Your Ancestor Stories, 2nd Edition"

for $9.99

Direct from the Printer, Lulu.com

via my Dr. Bill's Non-Fiction Book Store, using your PayPal account, for example.

Thank you for your support!

Families are Forever!  ;-)

"13 Ways" 2nd Edition in print now available from printer

"13 Ways" 2nd Edition in print now available from printer

In advance of availability on Amazon.com, you may order your print copy of
"13 Ways To Tell Your Ancestor Stories, 2nd Edition"

for $9.99

Direct from the Printer, Lulu.com

via my Dr. Bill's Non-Fiction Book Store, using your PayPal account, for example.

Thank you for your support!

Families are Forever!  ;-)

75 Years Ago This Week

75 Years Ago This Week

This is a new weekly meme, for me, starting today, March 1, 2013.

75 Years Ago This Week included March 1, 1938 - my mother and father were recently engaged, preparing to get married later in the month.

Also starting today, over in The KINNICK Project blog, I have resumed daily entries from Mom's - that is Eileen Kinnick's - diary.

Each week here, I will have something to say about the week's diary entries with a link over there.

Most weeks, I'll also have something from the local newspaper in Coon Rapids, Iowa, the Coon Rapids Enterprise. From time to time, I may add other tidbits from that week, 75 Years Ago! ;-)

***
 From Eileen's diary entry of Feb 6:
"Decided to get married sometime in March & love on Smith's other place."

From Eileen's diary entry of Feb 8:
 [At work] "Told Leo & Boyd I was gonna get married.
Told the folks but they hardly believed me."

From Eileen's diary entry of Feb 9:
"Pete came. Went out on Betts road. Just sat & talked. Plan on going to Des Moines {to get rings}."

From Eileen's diary entry of Feb 11:
"Pete came & we went to Des Moines. Ate at Butterfly. Got rings at Helzbergs, did a little shopping... [Back at home] So tickled about the rings; they're cuter than the dickens."

From Eileen's diary entry of Feb 18:
"Looked at catalogs and planned."

From Eileen's diary entry of Feb 20:
"Over to Smith's other place. Measured all the floors and windows. It really can be made nice. Over to Smith's to supper."

From Eileen's diary entry of Feb 23:
"Went to Whitnell's & picked out our Fiesta... Went to Carroll... Got our cabinet, couch, 2 rugs, & 2 kitchen chairs. Came rite home."

My comments: Kind of brings us up to date!  ;-)


Families are forever!  ;-)