My Nominees for One Lovely Blog

I am so glad it is Friday and my work week is over.  I will be spending time this weekend rearranging my sewing room. 

Quilting Blogs:
Lorene from A Little Bit of Lorene
Kim from Bitty Bits and Pieces
Nancy from Bountiful Heirlooms
Barbara from The Pointless Quilter
Connie fro Quilting by the River
Mickie from Irish Muses
Bonnie from That's Life

Genealogy Blogs:
Marian from Climbing the Family Tree
TennLady from Gene Notes
Joanne from Keeper of the Records
Nancy from My Ancestors and Me
Becky from Grace & Glory
Paula from The Scrappin Genealogist
Alana from A Twig in my Tree

These are not all of my favorite lovely blogs just some of them.  Many of my favorites already have the award.  Enjoy your visits to these blogs, I know I do.  Thanks again to Yvonne for nominating my blog. 

 

My Lovely Blogs Picks

Well I am a little confused but that is nothing new, it has been know to happen often.  One place it said to pick 15 blogs to give the award to and another place it said to give it to 7 blogs.  So since I had planned to sharing with quilting and genealogy blogs, I have seven of each. 

I was going to send them all notices tonight and write my post about it, but it is late and I need to go to bed tomorrow is a busy day at work, so the announcement will have to wait until tomorrow.  AT least I have my blogs all picked out.  Some of my favorites have been tagged already by some one else.

Fearless Females: Six Word Tribute

Lisa Alzo from The Accidental Genealogist  is repeating her series for Women's History Month.

March 15 — Write a six-word memoir tribute to one of your female ancestors.
  

This is to my Maternal Grandmother Mary Ann Holmes Chaplin


Mary Ann you look so grandmotherly.

I wish I had your stories.

Ten kids, family, widow, sadness, how?
(She buried a husband and three kids before she died.)


Mary Ann Holmes Chaplin in 1948 or 1949 Gorleston Sea, Yarmouth, Norfolk, England


I could not dicide which one I liked better, so here are three. 

Last year I did several of these post and I would like to share the links to those posts here.  Just click on the links to read them.

March 11 — Did you have any female ancestors who died young or from tragic or unexpected circumstances? Describe and how did this affect the family?  This post is about my mother and my second mother who both died too young.


March 12 — Working girl: Did your mother or grandmother work outside the home? What did she do? Describe her occupation.

One Lovely Blog Award

Thank You Yvonne from The Mashburn Collection for awarding me with the "One Lovely Blog" Award for my blog . The award was originally created by Sara of the Works of Art by Sara.

The rules for this award are:

•Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who granted the award and their blog link.


•Pass the award on to 15 other blogs that you've newly discovered.


•Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

I will have to wait until I come home form work to find 15 blogs that are doing a lovely job.  I know of many but I want to find some new ones.  I also want to share this with genealogy blogs and quilting blogs.  See you later.

 

Fearless Females: Document with a Narrative

Lisa Alzo is repeating her series for Women's History Month.


March 9 — Take a family document (baptismal certificate, passenger list, naturalization petition, etc.) and write a brief narrative using the information.

This is the marriage certificate of my Maternal Grandmother Minnie Elizabeth to William Thomas Chaplin. I don't know much about her as a person or her married life.  I think the picture below says it all.

Here are my grandparents on a roof in Brooklyn, Kings, New York.  I really like this picture, they look very comfortable together and in love.  She looks more relaxed her than in other pictures.

That is not a pipe in my grandfather's mouth it is a pen mark.

Fearless Females: Letters

Lisa Alzo http://www.theaccidentalgenealogist.com/ is repeating her series for Women's History Month.


March 8 — Did one of your female ancestors leave a diary, journal, or collection of letters? Share an entry or excerpt.

Page one my Mother's sister answered.

I have no journals or diaries, oh how I wish I did.  I do have a couple of letters.  I think I have one from each of my favorite aunts where I asked them questions about family history. 

You can double click to see the pages larger and better.

There were 5 pages of pictures I sent them, and they wrote something on every picture.

Same page my Dad's sister answered.

But what I am so glad I have is something I sent to them.  I copied all the family photos I had and asked each aunt who was who in each picture.  They each wrote back with the information they had on each picture.  Since each aunt was from each side of my family, one was my Mother's sister and one my Dad's sister.  The results were very clearly the Hartmann side or the Chaplin side.  
 

 

Fearless Females: Favorite Recipe

Lisa Alzo is repeating her series for Women's History Month.


March 7 — Share a favorite recipe from your mother or grandmother’s kitchen. Why is this dish your favorite? If you don’t have one that’s been passed down, describe a favorite holiday or other meal you shared with your family.
 
This was my Mom's Annette's favorite cake recipe and she made it for our birthday's each year.  Since my birthday was in February I had whip cream and bananas on mine by brother in the summer has strawberries and whip cream.  Her Mom made it for her also. I haven't had it in years but I might have to make it one of these days. 




Hot Milk Cake

1 Cup of milk

1/4 lb of butter

4 eggs

2 Cups of sugar

2 tsp vanilla

2 Cups of floor

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp baking powder

Put milk & butter in a sauce pan and bring to a boil. Beat eggs with sugar & vanilla until light & creamy. Slowly add flour that has been sifted 3 times with salt and baking powder. Beat in hot milk & butter. Pour into a greased & floured tube pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour & 10 minutes.

Fearless Females: Heirlooms

Lisa Alzo is repeating her series for Women's History Month.


March 6 — Describe an heirloom you may have inherited from a female ancestor (wedding ring or other jewelry, china, clothing, etc.) If you don’t have any, then write about a specific object you remember from your mother or grandmother, or aunt (a scarf, a hat, cooking utensil, furniture, etc.).

See my original post from last year.