Three days off, no place to go, stayed home Fri, Sat and Sun-both Pat and I. What a wonderful vacation. Outside interests are very important to older people, they tell us, but staying at home and working on our own projects can be important also.
Pat worked on her home library of quilt books. Pat collects, catalogs and shelves quilt subject ranging form how to do, patterns, quilt history and general sewing before 1970.
I worked on a new system of filing all my family history pictures, clippings, letters and documents. The system is a new, to me, wrinkle of filing by marriages. I made my only grandchild marriage #1, his mother #2, I'm #3, and then I worked it out make the numbers cover all the cousins, aunts and uncles back to the turn of the last century-1895 forward.
The system is simplicity itself. Each marriage is numbered, and includes the unmarried children of that marrage. When a child marries that starts a new marriage number. Now I can take all my materials and organize them in a three ring notebook, file folders, and plastic boxes. The largest collection will be #3, but I have sizeable collections from my uncles and cousins.
If anyone would like more information about the system please contact me.
Here's a note from this day in history I can't resist sharing.........
On Nov. 17, 1973, President Nixon told an Associated Press managing editors meeting in Orlando, Fla., that "people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook." Sure........
