It’s time for Saturday Night Genealogy Fun, courtesy of Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings
Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:
1) Write a Genealogy Clerihew (and what is a “clerihew” you ask? See Jim Smith’s post today for more details and his clerihew (briefly, a clerihew is a four-line irregular poem or verse that follows an AABB rhyme scheme. It is named for the birthday of Edmund Clerihew Bentley the inventor, aka writer, aka poet.”). If you’re feeling especially creative, write two or more!
2) Show us your genealogy clerihew in a blog post of your own, in a comment on this blog post, or in a Facebook comment or update. C’mon, dazzle your readers and friends with your poetry and creativeness.
So, not being a poet, I have tried to accomplish this mission to the best of my ability. Here is my entry for tonight:
Forbes, Stevenson, Spangler, Gamble
My how these folks knew how to ramble
From city to city and town to town
I’m slowly but surely, tracking them down!
I know it’s nothing great but I wanted to give it a shot! One things for sure, it’s definitely true. Seems my relatives are spread all over and cover nearly every state in the union! 
Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
Ken
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This is a picture I acquired from my Aunt Juanita several years ago. It is my maternal great-grandparents, Emmit Johnson Stevenson and Nettie Eudora (Freeman) Stevenson. I’m not sure when it was taken. I do know that Emmit died February 11, 1928 so that means it was before that!
It’s always nice when you can find pictures of great-grandparents or even great-greats!
Have a wonderful day!
Ken
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My Maternal Grandparents – George Charles & Winnie Ida (Stevenson) Forbes
George Charles Forbes
Born – November 30, 1896 in or around Oshkosh, Winnebago Co., Wisconsin
Died – October 31, 1976 in Douglasville, Cass Co., Texas
Buried in Pope City Cemetery, Pope City, Harrison Co., Texas
Winnie Ida (Stevenson) Forbes
Born – April 15, 1903 in Marion Co., Texas
Died – February 2, 1940 in Ware Community, Harrison Co., Texas
Buried in Pope City Cemetery, Pope City, Harrison Co., Texas
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It’s late but I want to continue with my “Monday Musings” posts! Please bear with me as I gather my thoughts.
Not much has changed in the last week. I’ve rarely had time to do anything with my site or post much. Work, medical problems and family have kept me busy enough for the past week. Of course, that’s pretty much the way it is everyday, isn’t it?
I have renewed my subscription to Ancestry so I hope to start gathering my info once again. I’ve got my boxes of paperwork located and I’m ready to start unpacking. I’m hoping that the mice haven’t gotten to any of my vital records. (I’ve been battling mice for the last 2 weeks at this new apartment)
I feel that everything is starting to fall into place so that I can get things rolling again. I guess it’s just up to me to find the time to start putting all these pieces together. I’ve got plenty of ideas and I hope to start getting them started soon.
One of those ideas is to chronicle my local history. I am pretty sure that it was the footnoteMaven who wrote about this a couple of years ago. Write about the sites and history of your city and surrounding cities. I now live in a very history-rich region and it would be quite nice writing about it all. It would also be a good way for me to learn my new surroundings.
I also was encouraged by a post from Randy Seaver today. I really enjoyed him talking about how he has been trying to get his family tree under control. It gave me a lot of ideas and reminded me that I am not alone in my struggles to get things in some sort of order! Thanks for the encouraging post Randy!
So, I hope to start seeing some changes soon. Stick around and grow with me, won’t you?
Have a wonderful week everyone!
Ken
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This is an awesome picture I found in my collection. The two men are myself and my dad and the two girls are my little sister, Kim, on my right knee and my niece, Crystal, on my left knee. This picture was taken in my parents room at Murdock Terrace Apts. in Dallas, Texas and would probably be about 1979 or 1980. I’m leaning more toward 1980.
For those who don’t know me, you can see that I was trying to be a hippie back in those days! Rock and roll t-shirt, blue jean jacket, long hair. I thought I was oh so cool! Looking back now I can see why my Dad would always say I needed to put a dress on because I looked like a little girl!
Oh, and for the record, I was the baby of the family until my little sister came along. There’s just a little difference in our ages!
Hope you enjoyed today’s “Tell Me Thursday”.
Have a great day everyone!
Ken
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Hey everyone! I hope this finds you all doing great!
I just wanted to pop in and let you know that I have changed my mind about how to redo my website. I am confident that Joomla! will be great once I learn it but the problem is that I have to take the time to learn it. Since I want my site up and running quickly, I have decided to go ahead and start it off the old fashioned way!
I found a backup of one of my sites from 2009. It’s not recent and it is from my original Forbes-Stevenson site but it will be enough to give me a base to build on. I’m uninstalling my Joomla! right now and as soon as that finishes I will start to upload the html files and css files. With any luck I’ll have something to view soon.
That’s it for now! Hope you all have a wonderful day!
Ken
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My Paternal Grandmother – Ora Elizabeth (Gamble) Spangler
Born – November 5, 1907 in DeKalb, Bowie Co., Texas
Died – April 2, 1982 in Paris, Lamar Co., Texas
Buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Paris, Lamar Co., Texas
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I know it may be Tuesday right now on the East Coast but it is still Monday on the West Coast so, technically, this is still Monday Musings!
Seriously, I’m sorry about being late with this post but I’ve been pretty busy lately. This was a busy Monday. I woke up at 6:30 AM, which I am not used to since I work nights now! I ran my wife to work and then drove back and stayed up until now! Tomorrow we will both be working at night.
So, on to the business at hand. I’d like to talk about my website progress today. I’ve been getting a little more comfortable with Joomla and I have now created a small welcome page to my site and have created 2 sections on the site, one for my maternal genealogy and one for my paternal genealogy. These 2 sections have a small intro as well. It’s not much but it does represent some progress. I’ve also taken the “Down for Maintenance” portion off and you have access to these 3 small pages. Small steps! We have to start with small steps!
On the genealogy side, I’ve finally installed my Family Tree Maker on my new computer and have started a small family tree. It’s basically a starter file for everything that will follow. It’s my parents and siblings and all their descendants. From there we only have to start working back for each line! Once again, small steps!
So, there’s not a whole lot to talk about today but I am still very excited about the small progress I made this past few days. It’s a lot more than what I was doing previously!
Thanks for stopping by to check the blog and have a wonderful week everyone!
Ken
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