Gene Notes

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Thriller Thursday - Accidental Death of Philip Carlisle Chinn?

This following death was ruled accidental. When a 28 year-old falls from a window according to one report, or from a third floor to a second floor according to the death certificate, you have to wonder if it truly was accidental. When I went scrabbling for an obituary, I found this article from the Cleveland Plain Dealer and then at least one readable page from FBI case files. You be the judge. Accidental or not?

FBI Case file

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Wedding Wednesday - Jesse & Burgwald

On this day, February 2, 1887, Anna "Sophia" Jesse and John Burgwald were married in Sherman township in St. Joseph County, Michigan.

Michigan Marriage record 1887

Sophia was the daughter of George Jessie and Maria Klevsaat, the granddaughter of Friedrich Christoph "Ernst" Klevsaat and Christina Sophia Luise Brahst, the great-granddaughter of Johann Christian Kleesaat and Elizabeth Catherine Neuendorf, and the great-great granddaughter of Sebastien Heinrich Kleesaat and Anna Sophia Catherine Kleesaat. The last couple mentioned are also my great-great-great-great grandparents, making Sophia and me third cousins twice removed.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Just Do It!

Andrea & her uncle Mike - 1983

For years, I've been trying to get myself to get photos organized. In fact, after we moved to Tennessee, I warned both of my daughters that if there were any photos that they wanted, they would need to start going through all the bins of photos we brought here with us and I would put them in albums. Because younger daughter did hers over the Thanksgiving holiday, I rushed through them and put them all in an album for her. Older daughter, who was finishing up her degree at Tennessee Tech at the time, took longer to finish culling photos. Sad to say they are still waiting for me to put them in an album. Bad mommy! I've let that project go for any number of projects instead -- such as the two cookbooks I put together for the daughters after Christmas, the letters my grandfather wrote to my grandmother during WWI, and now the letters my grandfather and other family members wrote to my uncle during WWII. Since my DH's input is very important, I am dragging him into this project also. This picture of my younger daughter and her uncle (my brother) taken back in 1983, really is making me anxious to get going on sorting through those pictures.