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Originally I created this site to share my stories.  Some favorites are:

What's in a Name?  

Potato Chip Can

Enchanted Luncheon Meat

Lack of Pryor Restraint

My First Bra

Have a Glass of Fudge

Munchkin on Speed

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Genealogy



Genealogy: Time to get back to it

Thursday, 15 March 2007 10:06 P GMT-05
While delivering to the Sheffield/Sheffield Lake Board of Education today I ran into James Burgett, one of my cousins (actually my fourth cousin once removed). For a number of years I spent a lot of time looking into the Burkard/Burgett family tree.&

St. Vincent Cemetery: The Conversation Continues

Friday, 3 November 2006 11:59 P GMT-05
Back in December of 2004 I wrote about my maternal family history, the Burgetts. I wrote about it in A Stone in a Field and Stone Redux .

Photography and the unknown

Wednesday, 29 December 2004 11:59 P GMT-05
One of my passions is photography. In my youth I had a darkroom and spent many an hour mixing chemicals and playing with light and shadow. Much of that has transfered over to the digital age and photoshop but I miss the smell and feel of the darkro

[Photo Album] Old Unknown Bott Family Photos

Wednesday, 29 December 2004 5:40 P GMT-05
All of these pictures are unknow except for the two listed in my blog.  All are from 1850 to the early 1900s.  If you have any information about these people let me know.

Stone Redux

Saturday, 4 December 2004 11:59 P GMT-05
I've received quite a few emails concerning that lone stone in the field. Most want a picture of the actual stone. Here it is:William Burgett 1852 - 1902I've completed a rather extensive genealogy of the Burgett family in Ohio. There are two separ

A stone in a field

Friday, 3 December 2004 11:59 P GMT-05
As a child we never traveled much. My mother suffered (and suffers) from agoraphobia. It is as though an invisible fence was drawn around our house and she cannot breach it. It is slightly better now but when I was young it was severe.On one of the f

St. Vincent Cemetery

Monday, 2 February 1998 11:59 P GMT-05
St Vincent Cemetery Short story told by Bridget Shindler and related by her daughter Judith Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Shindler purchased the property on the west side of St. Vincent Cemetery in 1945. In 1945 St Vincent Cemetery was so overgrown, my

Obituary: Jack William Burgett

Thursday, 1 January 1998 11:59 P GMT-05
 Jack William Burgett Jack William Burgett, 78, of New London, and formerly of Elyria, died Tuesday, June 1, 2004, at Fisher Titus Hospital in Norwalk after a short illness. He served with the United States Marine Corps from 194