Wedding Wednesday-Simmet and Lambert

July 3, 1906 in North Shade Township, Michigan, William Edward Simmet was married to Mabel Lambert.

[Somewhere along the way, the Zimmeth name translated to Simmet for this branch of the family. William was the son of Frank Zimmeth or Simmet and Lena Helwig, both from Lancaster, New York. Frank was a nephew of my great-grandfather, August Zimmeth. August's oldest brother was Michael Zimmeth, William's grandfather.]

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Correspondence

I did something yesterday that I had been putting off for a while. I wrote a letter. Well, I typed it, because by the time I get to the second paragraph, no one should have to read my writing.  But it is going in the mail box in the morning.

There aren't too many people that I actually write to anymore. Most of my friends and relatives are online. Even my dear Aunt Shirley, who is 91 years young writes email!

In some respects, I think it is sad that I even print out a letter. Would I have had as much fun transcribing all the letters my ancestors wrote, if they had been typewritten? Probably not. And thus, I probably won't leave any letters for my descendants to decipher when I am gone. Unless my kids start saving all my emails!

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Monday Moanin' Or Am I Hallucinatin'?

Last week when I was performing my daily search of new or updated databases, I could swear I saw some listed by the day of the week, such as Tuesday, June 25, 2013.  Usually it's in the format of  25 Jun 2013. Last night it was displayed as 6/25/2013. STOP IT FAMILY SEARCH! And gawd, I hope I am not the only one who saw that!

Last night when I was trying to work in my office, Mouse the cat was single-pawedly trying to destroy what semblance of order existed on my desktop. I kicked her out and closed the door securely, only to have her show up a few minutes later with her toy-on-a-stick that we refer to as Panda-Rat. It's hard to ignore her little paw snaking under the door, but I managed for a few minutes anyway, while trying work.

My DH let a firefly into the house last night and Mouse, of course, started chasing after it. I brought out the fly-swatter and she thought that was a toy.  We still haven't chased down the dang firefly and I really hope Mouse doesn't catch it and eat it.

It is turning out to be a busy week this week, with a holiday thrown in with it. Maybe I'll schedule some office organizing time - data entry work?

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