----- Original Message ----- From: "David E. pitts" <paw281@sbcglobal.net> To: "Sue Tackel" <suetackel@embarqmail.com>; "La Darla Keith" <LaDarlaK@aol.com> Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 10:44 AM Subject: Trip > Sue, La Darla, > > We got home on schedule yesterday without any problems until we got > on the Gulf Freeway. it was > about 12:30 pm and everybody was headed to Galveston for the > afternoon. We've seen that before > and I don't understand it at all. Why would they go at noon to spend > part of a day. Poor planning. > > We went to Dallas for a baby shower and then did some genealogy in S. > Oklahoma. We stopped > at the Wise Court house and imaged more land records. We were really > flying low, so didn't > even have time to say hello to Myrna and Oran. Saw Myrna at the baby > shower the next Sat. however. > Then we flew to Las Vegas and then to Salt Lake City. > > We did lots of genealogy in Salt Lake, but we save all our most > difficult research for that library, so > we don't have too much success. I worked on my cousin's mother's > family (the Dethloffs from Wise Co.) from Schwerin Mecklenburg > Germany and the LDS staff was most impressive trying to help me while > speaking among themselves in German the entire time. The bottom line > was that this part of Germany is very difficult and they couldn't > find the Dethloff family in the 1867 census. In fact they couldn't > find what I had already found, > but they know Germany and they speak German fluently. Now we have to > sort through our > data. One thing we do now is to take images of the microfilm with > our digital camera. It is > so much faster and cheaper than making prints or writing the > information on paper. The Dethloff family > is the only family I've managed to get across the pond. > > Bu the way we were in Schwerin Germany last summer. Attached is a > photo of the castle > where the Mecklenburg family ruled this part of Germany for 300 years. > > We stayin Salt Lake at the hotel south of the LDS library and across > the street from Temple Square > (we only paid $60.00 per night!!!!!!!) > Salt Lake City keeps expanding their tram system and they have a free > zone so you can just > hop on and off in the downtown area. It was hot (record temps near > 100) and the tram was most welcome. They built a new shopping center > west of Temple Square near the Arena where the Jazz play and it is > very nice with good restaurants, food court, and lots of shops. The > work the city did preparing > for the Olympics has served them well and the city is much more > alcohol friendly than it used to be. > Salt Lake City is a nice city to visit. Now if they would just > extend the tram to the airport. The taxi > ride to the airport was more expensive than Las Vegas. We had free > transportation from the hotel > but we had an early flight before the van was running. > > The SWA planes were full on all the legs of our trip except from > Houston to Dallas, so SWA must be making good profit. > > Both my classes made, so I'll have a busy fall teaching. > > I'm processing the Wise land records and going through our new > research data. When I finish that I'll go > back to working on the 1953 Bridgeport Newspaper index. > > Best Regards, > David > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >