I found Aunt Edith
January 29, 2009 | Items of Interest | No Comments
A few months ago I just happened to check James Monroe Chapman and Nancy Ann Elizabeth Frances Jacobs and their children to make absolutely certain that I had finished all of the ordinance work for everybody….the two of them sealed together, and their children sealed with them. Much to my SHOCK I couldn’t find my Aunt Edith’s records anywhere. In NEWFAMILY.com I found that she had been sealed to her parents and to her husband, Clem (who she never divorced, even though they were separated for forty years), but there was no record of her baptism, confirmation, initiatory, or endowment ordinances. I panicked, and I searched and searched. Finally, in desperation, I called the Help Service provided by Newfamily.com in Salt Lake City. I was immediately referred to someone (in California), who was qualified to help me with my problem. The problem was, essentially, that I had a pink card with the ordinances blacked out, except for her sealing to her parents, and I had no possible way of getting her work done, unless I could get another pink card.
The service worker and I stayed on the phone for over an hour trying different ways to solve the problem. All ofa sudden, he said,”Say, is it possible you sent her name in under somebody else’s name, other than your own?”
“Yes. Maybe my husband.” I called Luis in. He went into NEWFAMILY.COM. Found Aunt Edith’s records in his name. I immediately reprinted a pink card….and I’m all set to do her ordinance work!! A huge boulder was suddenly rolled off my shoulder. (that rhymes) And dear Aunt Ed can join her father, mother, and brothers and sisters in the Spirit Paradise very, very soon.
The Spirit of Elijah is in this room when I sit down to do genealogy work. Odd things occur. For instance, a couple of weeks ago when I just suddenly, out of the blue, thought about my cousin, Izetti’s husband, Bob Knothe, and I wondered if he had died. WHERE did that thought come from? I’ve never had ANY thoughts about Bob Knothe. So…I looked in the Social Security Death Index, and found a Robert Knothe that was born in 1925 in Pennsylvania, and died on February 12, 2008, in Pennsylvania. That had to be my Bob. I needed confirmation, so I asked Tom Holland in my Christmas card to them if Bob had died. Finally, I called him a few nights ago. He had called our cousin, Mary Nell Pittman Carter, in Philadelphia, and she confirmed that it was Bob that died. So, I can do his work next month, and seal him to Izetti. They were such good, good people, and they loved each other very much. Tom also found out that Mary Nell’s husband, Jim, had died. We didn’t know about that, either, but we don’t know much about our Philadelphia cousins.
NEW Family Chart
January 28, 2009 | Ancestry | Comments [3]
I updated the Family Chart. I hope I got most of it right:)
The Link to the right now opens this chart.
A very strange book
January 25, 2009 | Items of Interest | Comments [3]
It’s only 157 pages long, and it sort of jumped off the shelf at me. The fir page is entitled “An Important Message”
It starts out with “You are holding a unique book. I should know, since i’m the one who found the original manuscript. It was stacked neatly, and handwritten on shimmery white paper.”
He started reading it, and was so fascinated that he was stunned to see two hours had passed.He finished reading it, and hurried home to show it to his wife, Flora. “I’ll make my meeting, but could you read this manuscript this afternoon? When I got hom, Flora simply said, We have to get this published. They found a publisher who liked the story a lot, but couldn’t agree to print it as a true story. Rather, he preferred to print it as a novel, based on true experiences. Or something like that. It was agreed.
It is the story of a young girl named Tina Marlar, who got hit by a car and was killed. She explains her story from that point of how she entered the Spirit World, and the things that happened to her there, where she had to make some choices. She made good choices that was going to effect many of her family members still on earth. She was going to be allowed to go to earth and try to influence them about the church.
A few interesting points: The spirit paradise is enormous, and in the center is a golden city that shimmers with diamonds, and it is where Jesus Christ lives when he is in the spirit world. Also, it is the home of the prophets. Their homes are enormous mansions.
While those of the more common folks in the spirit paradise have mansions that they have earned, and they are very busy with many essential assignments to keep the Saviors Spirit World in perfect order. Nothing must be amiss.
Ella Elaina
January 22, 2009 | Birthdays | Comments [5]
Made her entrance into mortality about 6:30 this morning. I hope Ben doesn’t mind me getting the jump on him, but I thought everyone would like to know. Mother and baby doing fine. I think Luis said she weighs about seven lbs.
Congratulations Ben and Julie!
Jordan went home
January 19, 2009 | Items of Interest | Comments [3]
Carmen and Jason came on Friday, packed up Jordan, and they finished all of the packing on Saturday(but Jason took time off very early to go out with his brother for some early morning salt water fishing), and they left. We’re already missing Jordan.
Maria came late Sunday Afternoon, spent the night, and spent all day today (holiday,you know. Somebody special’s birthday) and she painted the room that Jordan exited. A pretty color of yellow. It looks very nice. There’s a queen bed in there, so someone can come and visit now.
Jani may be here for a while. Casey is awaiting his orders, and he just may be sent to Afghanistan. Jani would like to go back to Oklahoma…..but…..we’ll see.
Thank you, Maria, for painting the room. It really is very pretty.
Sister Scott
January 12, 2009 | Items of Interest | Comments [3]
Luis and I received news this evening that a very sweet sister that we were acquainted with for the past three years, while we have been serving as workers in the Orlando Temple, has passed away.
It was truly devastating news. It was only three months ago that she was diagnosed with Leukemia. I wasn’t aware at any time that she even felt ill. She was always so kind, and so concerned about ME!
Sister Scott was married to the brother of the Apostle, Elder Richard G. Scott. She died last Tuesday, and we have just now heard about it, because we didn’t go to the temple last Tuesday, as I was still in the hospital.
I thought that, with treatment, she could live for several more years.
I think my grandfather, Daddy Mac (McLure) died soon after he was diagnosed with that disease.
Happy Birthday!!!
January 11, 2009 | Uncategorized | Comments [12]
Let me be the first to tell you happy birthday Mom!
Michael Holland
January 10, 2009 | Uncategorized | Comments [2]
I know that I told Buddy, but for the rest of you who remember your cousin, Mike, you will be interested to know that Mike died last September. I think he was about 57 or maybe 59 years old. Very unexpected. He contracted, of all things, Mad Cow’s Disease ( I don’t know the medical name for it.)
Mike was such a good guy! I know it seems that you want to say that when people die, but in Mike’s case, it’s so true. He was always so optimistic, and so funny. I really liked my young cousin. I didn’t get a Christmas card from Nancy, as I always did, and I was puzzled, but I sent her one anyway, and she called me on Saturday morning, when I was so sick, and could barely talk. She told me some medicine that I should take for flu. Little did I know. But I was stunned to my shoes when she told me about Mike. She said that she had been so devastated that she just hadn’t recovered, and hadn’t sent a single Christmas card, and had no Christmas spirit. She and Mike were very, very close.
lainie
January 7, 2009 | Uncategorized | Comments [1]
lainie, i sent you a little something for christmas but it got returned to me. i guess i put the wrong address. Maybe i’ll send it to you for your birthday. 
Must have been one of the drugs
January 6, 2009 | Uncategorized | Comments [7]
The doctors prescribed a couple of meds for me to take, and they must have not agreed with my other drugs that I already take, because yesterday I couldn’t walk. Dad had to literally drag me to the bathroom and back.
He stopped giving the new meds to me, and I was alright today.
Whew!
I have appointments on Wednesday and Friday with my regular doctors,so we didn’t panic today.
Home Again
January 1, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Hello…I’m home, alive, and well…Thanks to the quick action of some skilled folks in the medical field (but first, the quick action of Luis and Maria in calling 911 for the 2nd time this PAST YEAR.) I just hope and pray that 2009 will not see me in the hospital anymore. I’m afraid I’m going to have bronchitis every winter (just as Poppy did), but mine has developed twice now into pneumonia. I’m just going to have to be very cautious from now on.
Thanks for everybody’s concern, and especially to Maria for keeping you updated…and for REUPHOLSTERING OUR KITCHEN AND DINING ROOM CHAIRS!! GOOD JOB, MARIA!! Thanks to you, too, Carmen for helping choose the very lovely fabric.
Thank you, Bill, for the book by one of my favorite apostles.
Thank you, Buddy, for the DVD. I’m going to watch it today, because I still don’t feel like doing too much but lying around.
Thank you, Julie, for my birthday present. just had to open it. They are just the most adorable little pics I’ve ever seen!