Warning: boring genealogy stuff
Jul. 22nd, 2012 10:19 amMelissa and Dad got married yesterday in a nice little wedding. I got to make the dinner playlist, full of standards and Gershwin, and then this band called Bootleg played as everyone ... left early because they had to drive home. I danced twice with one of my dad's friends, the guy who owned the farm we had the ceremony and reception at. I was still finishing my dress that morning, though - I bound the armscyes by hand and then took it to show Mom, and she said I'd put in the zipper all wrong but it wasn't my fault because nobody ever showed me how to do it correctly, so she redid it. Nobody could tell all the places where I'd messed it up, and I got lots of compliments on it, which was nice.
I was going to go to Ticonderoga today for their Defiance & Independence event, but: it's a bit far, there's a triathlon going on in the area today, the two people I know aren't going to be there, Mom doesn't want to go, the schedule for today is really light, and there are only four merchants. So I'm kind of feeling like ... let's just relax, maybe start my 1911 dress.
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erinpuff reminded me that the 1940 census has been more digitized, and I finally found my paternal grandfather in it. He was 15, living with his sister and her husband and daughter in Rochester, Ulster County, because his father had died - my dad says his father never really explained the whole deal with that. (That sounds like my grandfather is dead, but he's not, he just doesn't talk about anything or to us at all.) My paternal grandmother's family was surprisingly poor, as Dad says her family was supposed to have been doing pretty well during the Depression, because her father was an electrician. Can't find Gramma and don't know why; not much interesting on Grampa's. Gramma's great-grandmother, who had been working as a seamstress even in the 1930 census in her late 60s and was living with her unmarried daughter then, had moved into a "home for convalescents" run by a naturalized Scottish woman. I think the daughter had died. By this time, Gramma's father had left her mother; Grandma Luce's brother had moved in with them and was supporting them by working as a clerk. My great-grandfather was living in the same city, married to a woman with four kids, both of them working in a shoe factory and making decent money.
I was going to go to Ticonderoga today for their Defiance & Independence event, but: it's a bit far, there's a triathlon going on in the area today, the two people I know aren't going to be there, Mom doesn't want to go, the schedule for today is really light, and there are only four merchants. So I'm kind of feeling like ... let's just relax, maybe start my 1911 dress.
erinpuff reminded me that the 1940 census has been more digitized, and I finally found my paternal grandfather in it. He was 15, living with his sister and her husband and daughter in Rochester, Ulster County, because his father had died - my dad says his father never really explained the whole deal with that. (That sounds like my grandfather is dead, but he's not, he just doesn't talk about anything or to us at all.) My paternal grandmother's family was surprisingly poor, as Dad says her family was supposed to have been doing pretty well during the Depression, because her father was an electrician. Can't find Gramma and don't know why; not much interesting on Grampa's. Gramma's great-grandmother, who had been working as a seamstress even in the 1930 census in her late 60s and was living with her unmarried daughter then, had moved into a "home for convalescents" run by a naturalized Scottish woman. I think the daughter had died. By this time, Gramma's father had left her mother; Grandma Luce's brother had moved in with them and was supporting them by working as a clerk. My great-grandfather was living in the same city, married to a woman with four kids, both of them working in a shoe factory and making decent money.
