Wisdom Wednesday – Check the Dictionary
02 Feb 2011 2 Comments
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If you read my post on Monday about going through old boxes of stuff this weekend, you will know I found a lot of new items I had not really looked at.
This is the cover to the Webster Dictionary. I am not sure of the date. It is a thick cardboard cover and on the back is a lot of family history information. We have all heard of families writing in the family Bible, but a dictionary?
The back contains information written by my grandma Rose Tregler. She wrote birth and death dates and places, social security numbers and citizenship petition numbers for some of my relatives! The people include Jaroslav Tregler, Sr., Jaroslav Tregler, Anna Tregler, Rose Tregler, her parent’s names, my aunt and my mom.
I wonder why grandma would write this in a dictionary……. Where are some interesting places you have located family information?
Mar 09, 2011 @ 14:04:49
Recording family info in a dictionary! Very creative. Maybe your grandma knew this was a book that the family would be sure to keep and use over the years. My 2d cousin has a plain notebook in which her mother wrote down names and dates, but my husband’s family tended to use beautiful bibles for their family records.
Mar 23, 2011 @ 08:33:58
I found family information in my grandmother’s address book.