This is my Dad’s Uncle Bun in the U.S. World War II Fourth Registration Draft Cards, 1942 database at Ancestry.
My Dad speaks very fondly of this man and of the many summers spent as a child in Oregon with his Uncle Bun.
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Meet my Daddy!
I was searching through Ancestry.com’s U. S. City Directories collection, looking for a great-uncle when I came across… MY DAD! This 1949 listing is one of the earliest “non-family” (family pix, documents, etc) references to my dad that I have found.
Only 20 years old, a mere babe! Hadn’t even met Mom, yet.
I’m not quite sure what a “mtcemn” is… maybe a maintenance man…
(A little further down the page is my grandfather and step-grandmother, Victor E & Agnes Hall.)
Great idea, Randy!
Randy over at Genea-Musings posted today about using Google to search for his grandparents’ home.
Ok, maybe I can try that with my 2GGF Miles Francis Stanley’s home in Mineral Wells, Texas. You may recall that I showed a picture of the house, taken ca 1910, for yesterday’s Wordless Wednesday entry:
Into Google’s search field went the terms “915 N W 4th Ave mineral wells tx”. This is the address that is on Miles Stanley’s death certificate:
The first search result:
Which lead me to this page:
The “A” balloon is my 2GGF’s house! Unfortunately, that’s as close as I could get:
Curses! The next hit led me to this page at The Portal to Texas History:
There’s my 2GGF’s house again, this time in 1976!
Hey, Portal to Texas History, you forgot to mention my second great-grandfather, Miles Francis Stanley, who owned the home ca 1910-1935!
And guess what? The house is currently for sale! Anybody got an extra $325,000 that I could borrow?
