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There are 2 Ruth’s in my family, and I have been told that I was named after each, depending on who is telling the story!

My great-grandmother on my Dad’s side was Ruth (Carroll) Carr (1890-1965). I don’t remember her at all, although I’m sure that I met her when I was a small child.

My second-cousin-once-removed from my Mom’s side (although much closer in the actual dynamics of my family) is Ruth Ann (Starr) Brown (1927-    ).

Ruth Ann is a very talented artist and her house was always one of my favorite places to visit as a child, even though the Browns lived in Los Angeles at the time.

Unique or unusual names in my tree? How about:

• Mary Tennessee
• Charley Belle
• Serena Jane
• Trilla Maryland
• Zora Belle

I just love these old-fashioned names! If I was doing genealogy before my daughters were born, they’d probably have disowned me by now…

Finished my grandmother’s file this evening, everything uploaded to my gallery. Renamed those images, more descriptive now.

My library to-do list is getting pretty long. Before it gets completely out of control, I think I’ll visit the library next Thursday, my day off.

Considering uploading my TiddlyWiki research notebook to my hosted site. I’ve been using it on and off for a couple of years now, quite handy. I didn’t think it could be uploaded and used online, but last night I found out that it is possible. Fairly simple directions, too. This would be a great back-up, if nothing more. It would be password-protected, so my site hopefully would be safe from “evil-doers”. I’ll give it a try and see how it goes. If it works out well, I’ll let everyone know.

By the way, HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my brother Ricky!

Posted a photo of my grandfather for Wordless Wednesday

Did some preliminary work on Mamie Inez Carr’s file- my grandmother. Uploaded her images to my ZenPhoto gallery.

That’s about it, other than RSS feeds. Kinda tired tonight, not much in the mood for research.

This evening was spent editing my grandfather’s real estate documents. These were originally downloaded and saved as .pdf files. Using PDF-XChanger Viewer, the .pdfs were exported as .jpgs, which made for some HUGE images. I’m not sure why the documents that the Tarrant County site hosted are so large, but they would make great wallpaper, using the original definition of the word! I ended up resizing them to 25% of their original sizes, and now they are quite clear and manageable. These and the rest of my grandfather’s image files were uploaded to my Flickr photostream.

A couple of days ago, I also downloaded several pages of city directory listings from Ancestry.com for my grandmother, each that showed her as Mrs. Mamie Hall (with my grandfather not listed) and living at her parent’s home. These were dated 1935-1945, showing that they apparently were divorced (or at least separated) by 1935 and that she didn’t remarry until after 1945. Not only does this narrow the windows to locate these documents, but it also explains why my father was so close to his grandfather James Dixon Carr, since he lived in Carr’s home for at least 10 years during his childhood.

These documents are also a first for my research: sources that document where a person was not!

I am also trying to add a photo gallery program to my hosted site, so that I can display all of my genealogy images here rather than at Flickr. I’m already paying for the space of my hosted site and then also paying for a pro account at Flickr, which is kinda silly. The program was a “one-click install” done by my hosting company, which means they do all the work, since I really don’t have the technical know-how to do it myself. But when I uploaded images to it, the images don’t show. The names, sizes, and dimensions of the images are there, but not the images themselves. I have sent in a help message to the company for that little problem. I think I probably need to create a file to upload the images to, then connect that file to the gallery program, but I’m not sure how to do that.

The word prompt for the 11th Edition of Smile For The Camera is brothers & sisters? Were they battling brothers, shy little sisters, or was it brother & sister against the world? Our ancestors often had only their siblings for company. Were they best friends or not?

Jack Dixon Carr & Mamie Inez Carr Clark

my great-uncle and my grandmother

ca 1975

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From STANLEY

Henry Thomas Fair & John Thomas Stanley

ca 1901

my 2nd great-uncle and my great-grandfather

Henry and John were abandoned about 1900 and Henry was adopted by John and Martha Fair, John was adopted by Miles and Trilla Stanley. Martha Fair and Trilla Stanley were sisters and next-door neighbors, so although the boys were adopted into separate families, they still grew up together.

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From STANLEY

Mary Tennessee Turner Rogers, holding Miles Francis Stanley III, with Jan Marie Stanley, Maryland Sue Stanley (my great-grandmother, my uncle, my aunt and my Mom) at grave of Charles Arthur Rogers, ca 1943, Greenwood Cemetery, Fort Worth, Texas.

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Brother And Sister

by Lewis Carroll

Sister, sister, go to bed!
Go and rest your weary head.”
Thus the prudent brother said.

“Do you want a battered hide,
Or scratches to your face applied?”
Thus his sister calm replied.

“Sister, do not raise my wrath.
I’d make you into mutton broth
As easily as kill a moth”

The sister raised her beaming eye
And looked on him indignantly
And sternly answered, “Only try!”

Off to the cook he quickly ran.
“Dear Cook, please lend a frying-pan
To me as quickly as you can.”

And wherefore should I lend it you?”
“The reason, Cook, is plain to view.
I wish to make an Irish stew.”

“What meat is in that stew to go?”
“My sister’ll be the contents!”
“Oh”
“You’ll lend the pan to me, Cook?”
“No!”