The pieces were coming together on "In Old Holland" by Gustaaf Van Vreeland, a Dee-Gee cork puzzle. It sold new for twenty-five cents in its time. A windmill under cloudy skies stands illuminated in its immediate foreground, workers bustling out of it with work to be done.
We found three more ancestors for ordinance work and traced our line through the Stephens and on back to Adam, today, using the new FamilySearch.org. What nothing! This is taking so long, we aren't getting anything done, and I don't know what I am doing, were my sentiments by the end of the day.
The evening prayer was offered by grandpa. Afterwards, my grandmother expressed her feelings of gratitude for the speed of the modern technology and how much we had accomplished in such a short time. She spoke of floppy disks that were floppy and long start-up speeds of the past.
I smiled, said Oh Grandma, and hugged her.
We all huddled around it, blocking out the essential light, filling in the last pieces of the middle, eager to know if there would be enough. Our knobby hands fiddled with the last small pieces. Ah-ha, ahhh- strange moans ruminated in mine and Grandpa's throats. Grandpa stood back collected. The last of the pieces came together leaving a beautiful landscape... with one small hole.
One is missing.
It's a Corker!
New.FamilySearch.org is the LDS church's new website for genealogy work offering many exceptional features. The Church has reformed many new sites this year as part of its apparent reorganization of much church material, including magazines, websites, manuals, and many other programs, that culminated recently at the Worldwide Leadership Training Meeting. The new material displays overall a more modern, user-friendly, simplistic style that is also opening the members to the reality that it is a world church. New.FamilySearch in specific has come together to offer speedy research capabilities for the common man- these are best understood when seen by oneself, go here.
No comments:
Post a Comment