Digging again into family history

I'm trying to do a better job of looking up family history. In digging into some documents for a cousin, I stumbled onto this clipping mentioning my Granny, her sister Jessie, and two cousins, Mary Lou Grijalva and Betty Polito. The clipping is from the Arizona Daily Star, dated 26 April 1940.

Arizona Daily Star, 1940.

Colorful Dyes

Photo by Patrick Jones. Dyes in Marrakech Medina, 20 June 2019.

I am back from my latest business trip, 10 days in Morocco. This was my third trip to Morocco, first since 2016. I managed to take time for a cool experience before the meetings, enjoying my first surfing lesson on a quiet beach thirty minutes south of picturesque Essaouira. I'll have some photos from that trip coming up.

Welcome to Arizona

Photo by L. Campuzano Reid. Arizona, 1970.

I'm trying to get back to more regular blogging. Above is a photo taken by my Granny on a visit back to Arizona in 1970. I converted this from slides to digital in December. Perhaps by starting slowly I will build up to a more regular rhythm of family history posts.

Immigrant Heritage Month

German ancestors in Southern Indiana. Undated photo.

I'm a little late in my annual Immigrant Heritage Month post due to travel over the first week of the month in Nordic Europe. The photo above shows my wife's 3rd-great-grandfather Stephen Freyling shoeing a horse, assisted by her 2nd-great-grandfather John Andrew Freyling on their farm in Warrick County, Indiana. In my previous Immigrant Heritage Month posts, I have tended to focus on my own immigrant ancestors, by my wife had immigrant ancestors as well, and it is important to recognize their contributions in coming to America at a time when it was much easier to do so.

Just like last year, I have made some donations to worthy causes that are supporting immigrants, including the ACLU and the National Immigration Law Center.

Wedding Photo

Wedding photo, Evansville, Indiana. 1 June 1947.

Here's another photo we picked up over the weekend in Indiana. This was taken on 1 June 1947, after the wedding of Allison's grandparents, Marilyn and Alfred Freyling.