Sunday, November 15, 2009
Wonderful reading-Grandam Bishop's Diarys
It has been a long time since I have been on this site. I really have been researching, just not my family. I have been doing work for RAOGK (Random Act of Genealogical Kindness) and for Find-a- Grave. Since my last post, I have finished editing all the pictures that Doug Crabtreee and I took at the Chandler Memorial Cemetery and placed them on Find-a-Grave and made memorials for family members. I still have several that need work. Recently I started reading my Grandma Bishop (Edna)'s diary's. What A wonderful find. In the very near future I hope to transcribe them and maybe publish them. I wish I could get other family members to help. I learned of my Gr.Grandmother's middle name-Esther Maude Sturdevant. The also appears to be an outlaw, Horace Sturdevant. Evidently he was involved with the Perry Gang. (Illinois/Montana?) There were storied about my dad's and Mary Jane's birth. And lots of stories of every day living. I am placing some of the stories in the note section of my FTM. the 1943 book would be a history buffs dream. Grandma wrote daily of WWII as seen through the eyes of this new Texan, the happening in Dallas and how it affect their lives. It seems money was tight, little work, but some how they managed to go to the show (movies) several times a week.
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Some cousins and I have been transcribing my great-great grandmother's diaries together, and it's been a wonderful experience. If you're interested (and patient), I'd be happy to host your grandmother's WW2 diaries on my site.
I wish I could get help with transcribing my grandmothers diaries. But it is just me. I have six diaries in the house and others packed in a shed. At one time the diaries dated 1910-1963. If I ever get them transcribed, I'd be more than willing to share them.
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