So here goes:
Surprised
My grandfather, John Stearns Percival was totally in love with my grandmother, Mary Bowman. I know this because I am currently transcribing his letters to her and he tells her so in every letter.
I discovered he entered the Army in September 1917 as a private and two years later managed to be discharged as a Corporal.
He never saw any combat.
His favorite TV show was "The Beverly Hillbillies" which he watched with my cousins in Holland, Michigan.
My grandmother, Mary Bowman, had a good sense of humor. I might even deem it to be slightly on the wild side for someone in the 1920s. I might make her an honorary Wild One. I think I may have inherited some of that.
One of my step-grandmothers was married more than the three times we knew about. Seems she married her second husband twice!
Humbled
My grandmother, Mary Bowman, was utterly devoted to my grandfather, John Percival. She must have seen something really special that he didn't show to anyone else?
The sacrifices my own parents made especially in regards to me. I was their "sickly" child. For the most part they did not try to keep me from doing normal kids things.
My mother-in-law's dealing with the various cancers that she suffered.
Enlightened
Not so much enlightened as empathetic to my grandfather's behavior and eventual deserting his children.
The ten I am passing it on to aren't necessarily genealogists, but they do make their ancestors proud.
1. Gathering Dust
2. Saradoxical
3. Unmitigated
4. The Genealogy Gals
5. Reflections from the Fence
6. Genealogy Frame of Mind
7. Speaking in Caps
8. Apple's Tree
9. My Family History Data
10. My Genealogy Research
Copyright 2010, ACK for Gene Notes
Congrats on your award and thanks for passing it on to me.
ReplyDeletethanks lady :-) i do later!
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