2012 has already decided to wreck havoc on me. I’ve been laid up sick as a dog since early morning 1/1/12. Hopefully after I’m better 2012 will be a much better year! I do know it will be a busy one. I graduate with a dual BA degrees in Accounting and Decision Science (MIS) I can’t wait to see what the future holds!
2012 Genealogy Goals
- Organize all of my photos
- Post one recipe a week. If I don’t keep up with this I’ll never get this project done!
- Make sure the entries on my tree are correct, fully updated and without duplicates. I know there are some items that are entered twice.
- Create more videos for the local library syste
- Stay active in the Genealogy world, I have met so many wonderful people online this past year!
- Submit another Patriot to the DAR
- Don’t let other people upset me and make me step back from my work.
Hopefully this won’t be too hard to stay on top of. The most difficult will be that recipe post but I need to get it done and the library videos but I think I can do it this year. Ok, so maybe the absolute most difficult will be the last, I really struggled with that this year and I can’t let it affect me like I have been.
Wish me luck!
I hope everyone has a happy and blessed Thanksgiving holiday!
It’s the holiday season and I wanted to share some family memories of holidays past.
My mom, dog samantha, and I
Thanksgiving is on Thursday and this year we are spending it home just the three of us. Growing up though that was never the case. My entire family lived in the same small town that I grew up in so family get togethers were a huge production. Unfortunately I don’t remember many specifics about Thanksgiving with my mother. I do remember the routine though.
Wake up extra early ( school was out so that meant early wake ups!
Play with my dog Samantha and watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. My favorite float was Kermit but the highlight was always seeing Santa finish the parade. The Christmas season could officially begin!
Head over to my Grandmothers house for lunch/dinner. Like I said above, my family was huge. So huge that my grandparents had to put about 4 tables up for use to eat at. Those tables would start in the kitchen wind thru the dining room, turn a corner into the front room and back into the living room. Of course the kids sat at the back in the living room. There would always be black olives on the tables that I would sneak each time I walked by. I was the baby of the family and looked up to my cousins so much. After we ate the cousins and I would raid my grandparents laundry room closet. The closet was full of games and toys that kept us busy while our parents watched football, drank and chit chatted.
NOW? My grandfather passed away in 2001. My grandmother is spending Thanksgiving in Florida. I live in Virginia while most of my family still lives in NJ. I barely talk to my cousins, only 3 of them. Heck I didn’t even know some of them had more children.
It’s sad how things have changed over the years but I’m forever grateful I have the memories and traditions to look back on.
Do you have any thanksgiving memories?
Recipe #3
Carrot coleslaw
Carrot Coleslaw
1 1/2 lb white cabbage, shredded
2 carrots grated
1/2 green pepper, grated
1 tbsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
1 tsp garlic salt
2 tsp sugar
1/2 cup vinegar
4 tbsp mayonnaise Or salad dressing
Turn shredded cabbage in salad bowl. Add grated carrot and pepper. Mix the seasonings, sugar and vintages. Add the mayonnaise or salad dressing. Pour over salad and mix. Chill.
Enjoy!
Please forgive me today if the formatting is a bit off on this post. I’m sitting at Starbucks on my iPad. I havent posted in this particular blog from my ipad before, so its a learning experience 
The photo is coming soon, I need to add the copyright to it and I’m unable to do that from my iPad. If you know a great app for that let me know!
Thank you for following my journey of documenting my family’s recipes. This time I chose my grandmother’s doughnuts. I had actually forgotten about them until I saw this recipe and it took me right back to her kitchen where she made them when I would spend the night. I have never made the doughnuts but I plan on it over the holiday season.
Dropped Doughnut
Transcribed from my grandmother’s written recipe.
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg, beat separetly.
1/3 tsp salt
1/3 tsp nutmeg
2 tbsp melted shortening (I used anything that I fry them in)
1 1/2 cup flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup milk
Mix well. Hold teaspoon of batter close to hot fat when dropping them and they will come up in round balls. dip teaspoon each time in hot fat. Turn them. cool. roll in sugar.
Enjoy!
I am starting a new video series for my blog. Utilizing Your Local History Library. Thanks so much for watching and I hope to have the first official video out in a few weeks! Please comment on the video link or to this blog if you have any questions, tips, hints etc for my future videos I really appreciate the feedback. Thanks so much!
This weekend I started working on a family line that I had not yet touched. I started with Edith Snook nee Ackerson and went from there. Thanks to the wonderful contributors on Find-A-Grave I was able to locate a stone for Phylah Dennis located in the Deckertown – Union Cemetery in Wantage New Jersey.
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Phylah Dennis nee Parcel is the grandmother of Edith Snook Ackerson.
Born: 1816
Died: April 21, 1837 (4 months after Sarah Dennis was born. Sarah is Edith’s mother)
Married: Joseph Dennis
From here I’m not sure who Phylah’s parents were. My research shows that the Dennis, McCoy, and Parcel families were living near each other and marrying into each other’s families. I’m not sure what family Phylah is directly related to at this time.
