LOL Tom - have to tell you if I ever told my son or family that I was buying a Harley - I would be under the constant watchful eye of 2 sons, 3 grandsons, 3 brothers and at least a dozen nephews and nieces (not to mention cousins) - not to stop me from buying one - but to be the first to borrow it - I would never seen it again - lol - I have been writing and researching genealogy groups and libraries and emailing several of them about information they have - I plan on buying a couple extra sd cards for my camera and my oldest son has all the latest gizmos and gadgets when it comes to recording stuff - he has no problem with me using any of them - in fact he gives me lessons on how to get the most use out of them - so will tell you my sneakiest use of them to date - Every so often - my female cousins have a luncheon for just the "girls" - we try to do one a year - last one I took along one that looked like an I Pod - when I walked in - I told my cousin that my ipod had died and I needed to charge the battery and she told me to plug it in right next to the table - so not only did I get a ton of great old stories from aunts and cousins - I had them all on tape and not one of them realized they were being recorded - my aunts will tell great old stories about their childhood and siblings - but not if you are recording them - they tend to clam up and not say much - so catching them unaware was great - my sister is the only one who suspected and she didn't say a word - might have been the hostile glares I gave her every time she looked towards the recording device. But she did ask me afterwards if I had recorded it all - needless to say - all my cousins were shocked when i provided them with a copy of the recording. I am probably most excited about visiting Nemaha CO - my ggg grandmother was the first white woman in that part of NE and I have found great stories about her on the net - my ggg grandfather was a minister and the church he preached in is still standing - it is now a museum and I am really looking forward to seeing it - plus I hope to find where they are buried and where my gggg grandparents are buried in Brownville. I really am looking forward to my trip - dianne In a message dated 9/10/2011 2:37:43 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Diane - I appreciate the info for unknown photo's. I thought that probably somewhere up on the web there would be such a site or sites. I PC8 the referral. Good for you - visiting Nebraska. Make it a worthwhile trip and plan it out as best you can. I think you are on a good list for this "excursion". A good portion of "Genies" are located in Nebraska. You need to marry up with them - a bribe would be good (chuckle). Just tell them you'll buy the first beer !! Seriously, go while you can. No one's getting any younger in preparation for the excursion, if you follow my drift. "Forbidden You To Go" ??? Wrong thing for him to say if you ask me. That would probably firm up your resolve more than anything else. If I were in your city I'd go with you. It would be a blast. A couple things that I have learned on these "outings" with respect to genealogy. Take your good digital and become familiar with the "taking a movie" section. You won't regret it. Another thing would be for you to take one of these small modern tape recorders that you keep in your pocket. Today, they'll record for somewhere around 150 hours or more before it's filled up. The thing is that you'll talk to lot's of people and see lot's of things and you only get one good shot at some of this stuff. A lot of the info that's given to you will be lost, even if you try and write it down. One's memory is not all that "exact" either. Lastly, if you have the room, take some of those old photographs we all have in shoe boxes. You may well indeed find out who they are or at least you'll get lot's of good stories for posterity. This will also prompt others to take out their old photo's as well. When they do, you can always take a high resolution of the photo. Again, the best way to plan this out, in my opinion, is to contact fellow genealogists here on this list and ask for their help and referrals as to where to look. All of us can surely offer a day or two individually in pursuit of our hobby. Nothing like a "Random Act of Kindness" to cement relationships. You can have some fun with your youngest son if you want to put things into perspective (chuckle). In passing, just tell him that you are considering the purchase of a Harley Davidson Motorcycle so you can view the country in the way it was meant to be seen. Hehehehehehe - betcha that he'll take that vacation - (smile). Tom On Sep 10, 2011, at 3:15 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Tom - Good luck in your photo efforts - have you looked into posting your > unknown photos on dead fred or ancient faces - both sites are free and have > places to post unknown photos - > > I am working on planning a genealogy trip to NE and IA next spring. Am > excited about going and doing first hand research - have not been able to > find anyone to travel with me - they all say yes but come up with excuses and > I have been trying to put this trip together for 3 years now - so am going > alone if I have to - but am really excited to go - my youngest son has > forbidden me to go alone and I told him - if you dont want me to go alone then > take vacation and go with me - but I am not putting it off any longer - I > am going - end of discussion - > > all of my research in NE will be in the counties of Nemaha, Richardson, > York, Seward and Platte. I also plan on going to western Iowa on this trip > and doing some research there as well. Just wish I had time to fit in KS > and SD - but wont be able to on this trip - maybe in a couple of years - > > Does anyone have suggestions as to places to see and things to do while I > am there - I havent been in NE since I was a child - and believe me - that > was many many years ago. > > Dianne > > > > > In a message dated 9/10/2011 11:58:52 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > Hello - > > I'm in the midst of a Photo effort, along with others, to identify all the > Lassek photo's that the Family has been collecting all these years. Our > system seems to be working. The digital photo's are exchanged within our > group and unknown photo's are slowly being identified and so entitled on a CD > for posterity. > > If anyone is interested, I'll be glad to explain our process. > > Throughout, we've got some photo's that we can't identify, it seems that > most are from Family's other than Lasseks, some with identification, some > not. It's here that possibly others may benefit as well. We'd like to both > identify them and give originals to appropriate Family members. Towards this > goal, I will put their likeness on a site (still looking) available to all > who may care to examine them. > > With some small exceptions, once identified, I'll send the originals to > the Family (or to whomever is identified for receipt). All I will need is an > address - I'll pay the postage (random act of kindness). It's a "win win" > situation and I hope all will participate. > > On the first CD circulated, Ron Lassek identified the last photo of my > Great Grandfather Walenty Lasek whose photograph was taken in his coffin at > the cemetery. This is only the second of two known photo's of Walenty > existing today - a super find. > > Once I have this finalized with photo's I'll put the web site here on > email to all for viewing. > > Thanks. > > Tomasz > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject > and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

" . . . . my cousin that my ipod had died and I needed to charge the battery and she told me to plug it in right next to the table - so not only did I get a ton of great old stories from aunts and cousins - I had them all on tape and not one of them realized they were being recorded - my aunts will tell great old stories about their childhood and siblings - but not if you are recording them - they tend to clam up and not say much - so catching them unaware was great - my sister is the onl . . . . " ***** Well shoot - you don't need any help from me concerning this recording information for posterity stuff. I think I'll just sit back and take lessons. I am probably most excited about visiting Nemaha CO - my ggg grandmother was the first white woman in that part of NE and I have found great stories about her on the net - my ggg grandfather was a minister and the church he preached in is still standing - it is now a museum and I am really looking forward to seeing it - plus I hope to find where they are buried and where my gggg grandparents are buried in Brownville. ***** That's impressive. 4 Greats. That had to put them in Nemaha County in the very earliest of years. I'm not sure what type records they had back then, or even if they had any records. This may well be a challenge for you to find info on them. Of course, your 4 great was a preacher, so that should be a plus. I'm thinking that if you had a few surnames, it may be possible to look at some of the earliest of entries in the Family Bible if you can find it. The trip sounds interesting. Your Family then had to be there during the times when there was very real danger to the settlers from Native Americans. They must of had some stories to tell. Tom