One of Our Holiday Favorites:

I want an official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot range model air rifle!

Plus other memorable lines:

You'll shoot your eye out, kid.

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How about a nice football?

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Some men are Baptists, others Catholics; my father was an Oldsmobile man.
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It's a Major Award!

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It could be a bowling alley!

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Fra-gee-lay.

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Bumpuses!
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And my personal favorite:

Randy lay there like a slug! It was his only defense!

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A wonderfully hilarous movie!

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Pearl Harbor Memorial

          

The USS Arizona Memorial 

honoring the Sailors and Marines who lost their lives during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on

December 7, 1941.

Pearl Harbor Casualty List

The USS Arizona is the final resting place for many of the ship's 1,177 crewmen who lost their lives on December 7, 1941.  The Memorial structure spans the mid-portion of this sunken battleship. The United States flag flies from a flagpole which is attached to the severed mainmast of the sunken battleship.

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Stoneham - Finding Their Origin

   
One of the benefits of using Rootsweb WorldConnect is the little green leaf icon that appears when a possible match can be made to a person on Ancestry.com

When I just have a few moments to spare, I like to go the my tree which is uploaded to the WorldConnect project and click on various names to see if the little leaf can point me to something new that I hadn't yet searched.

Today was my lucky search day as I decided to randomly pick Stoneham from my surname index.

Julia Stoneham who married Narcisse Lambert on 22 Apr 1845 in St-David-D'Yamaska, Quebec, is our ancestor.
I clicked on her father, Patrick Stoneham, and got the following display of my uploaded tree information:

You can see the shaded area with the happy green leaf above.
By clicking on that link I am taken directly to the record transcription in Ancestry.com:

Great!  I now have a place of birth:  Ireland
And on Ancestry I can view the original record to confirm the transcription plus glean other information from the census including occupation of cultivateur (farmer) :

Another blank filled-in and our second ancestral connection to Ireland was discovered!

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The Hebrew Feast of Hanukkah

as reported in the Baltimore Sun on  28 November 1899

(genealogybank.com)

 

Making Family Tree Gifts

At http://www.marthastewart.com/

several wonderful  ideas are given for creating truly lovely family trees perfect for oneself or for gifts.

Giving Tree Family Tree

Flower Family Tree

Birds of a Feather Family Tree

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Happy Thanksgiving from Tangled Trees

The First Thanksgiving

  
For your reading pleasure and to start your Thanksgving holiday in a proper state of mind:

The events of the First Thanksgiving in 1621 at Plymouth as recorded in the two known sources:

Mourt's Relation (Edward Winslow):

"our harvest being gotten in, our governour sent foure men on fowling, that so we might after a speciall manner rejoyce together, after we had gathered the fruits of our labours ; they foure in one day killed as much fowle, as with a little helpe beside, served the Company almost a weeke, at which time amongst other Recreations, we exercised our Armes, many of the Indians coming amongst us, and amongst the rest their greatest king Massasoyt, with some ninetie men, whom for three dayes we entertained and feasted, and they went out and killed five Deere, which they brought to the Plantation and bestowed on our Governour, and upon the Captaine and others. And although it be not always so plentifull, as it was at this time with us, yet by the goodness of God, we are so farre from want, that we often wish you partakers of our plentie."

Of Plimoth Plantation (William Bradford):
"They begane now to gather in ye small harvest they had, and to fitte up their houses and dwellings against winter, being all well recovered in health & strenght, and had all things in good plenty; fFor as some were thus imployed in affairs abroad, others were excersised in fishing, aboute codd, & bass, & other fish, of which yey tooke good store, of which every family had their portion. All ye somer ther was no want. And now begane to come in store of foule, as winter approached, of which this place did abound when they came first (but afterward decreased by degrees). And besids water foule, ther was great store of wild Turkies, of which they tooke many, besids venison, &c. Besids, they had about a peck a meale a weeke to a person, or now since harvest, Indean corn to yt proportion. Which made many afterwards write so largly of their plenty hear to their freinds in England, which were not fained, but true reports."

For more interesting information regarding the history of the First Thanksgiving including a list of  the surviving Mayflower Pilgrims present at the first Thanksgiving please see:  http://www.pilgrimhall.org/1stthnks.htm

“The First Thanksgiving Dinner with Portraits of the Pilgrim Fathers” by W. L. Taylor

(http://www.alden.org/pilgrim_lore/thanksgiving.html)

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Mastering the Thanksgiving Day Turkey

  
Be a Champion Chef with the help of Reynolds Wrap!

(click image to enlarge)

Yes - aluminum foil is a must in our kitchen.  And my mother-in-law always, without a doubt, makes the most delicous holiday turkey.

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Remembering the Mayflower

 

The Mayflower left England in September of 1620 with 102 passengers and a crew of 25–30. After a long and ardous journey lasting 66 days they finally arrived in the New World in November of that year. During this journey one child died, one baby was born en route, and a second child was born during the winter of 1620-1621, while wintering aboard ship in Provincetown Harbor.  Many of the passengers were Pilgrims fleeing religious persecution, others were hired hands, servants, or farmers recruited by London merchants.

List of passengers on the Mayflower

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Black Sheep Sunday: Busch's Sadness

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
1888-02-21

(www.genealogybank.com)

Peter Busch (b: 08 Aug 1869) was the son of our ancestors, John & Catherine Busch, and was, at age 18, still residing with his parents at the time of this article.  The citing of Peter's address in this news item confirmed we had the correct Busch.

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Rauners of Segenthau

We are descendant of Maria (Rauner) Stosz, born 12 Oct 1884, in Segenthau, Austria-Hungary (now Romania), daughter of Georg and  Theresa (Ballner) Rauner who are pictured below. This is followed by his known Rauner ancestry gleaned from the Segenthau Catholic Church records.

 (click image to enlarge)
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Family Recipe Friday: Classic Campbell's

  

Thanksgiving wouldn't be the same
without our favorite Campbell's dish:

Classic Green Bean Casserole

1 can (10 3/4 ounces) Campbell's®  Cream of Mushroom Soup
1/2 cup milk

1 teaspoon soy sauce

Dash ground black pepper
2 cans (about 16 ounces) cut green beans, drained 
1 1/3 cups French's® French Fried Onions

1. Stir the soup, milk, soy sauce, black pepper, beans and 2/3 cup onions in a 1 1/2-quart casserole.

2. Bake at 350°F. for 25 minutes or until the bean mixture is hot and bubbling. Stir the bean mixture. Sprinkle with the remaining onions.

3. Bake for 5 minutes or until the onions are golden brown.

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