Month: November 2016

Genealogy

Friedrich Heinrich Meineke

Shelly

Death Certificate

This is my great-great grandfather’s death certificate. Family Search has added a bunch of new records, including death and delayed birth records for Iowa, so I thought I’d make a quick lunchtime trawl through them. My great-great grandmother’s death certificate is not in the collection. She died in 1905 and the dates of the death certificates span 1921-1940. Hers would have been helpful, because it may have included her mother’s maiden name. No complaints, though!

They also added a bunch of burial records for the Archdiocese of Chicago,  so I can do some Basquill hunting there this weekend.

Pets, Photography, Videos

Will Thomas Eat It?

Shelly

Waiting for bedtime. #dogs #boxerdog #timechange

Thomas is not impressed with the time change. He thinks we should go to bed early, anyway, but now he starts making hints even earlier. This was last night, but it’s not even 6pm yet tonight and he’s already starting to look askance at me.

Clementines #food #oranges #clementines

I’ve been sick all weekend with a sore throat, and now a full-blown cold. After three days of my throat hurting, it was actually a relief when the rest of the symptoms joined the party. I was starting to think I had strep throat. Aieee! But no, it’s just a boring cold. So I stopped at the store to get more Kleenex, meds, and clementines. Like ya’ do.

And of course, I had to see what Thomas thought of them. He spit out the first one, but then changed his mind and decided he really likes them.