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Category Archives: family history

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What is a Legacy Bucket?

family history, legacy, Legacy Recordings, LegacyTooBy JamesNovember 12, 2021Leave a comment

A Legacy Bucket will create a family legacy for generations to come. “I’ll put that on my bucket list!” Jack Nicholas and Morgan Freeman played in the movie, Bucket List but have nothing to do with your Legacy Bucket . A bucket list is places to go and things for you to do before you…

The tribulations of Guavas, Tomatoes and Water Baths

family history, legacy, Oral HistoryBy JamesOctober 30, 2021Leave a comment

There are many reasons for canning fruits and vegetables. The biggest reason was many mouths to feed. We were not storing food for 10 years, we were storing food for the next few months. Scalding the glass canning jars was the chore of Uncle Jacob. He was a special Crusader for the children. He always…

The Genealogy Machine Your Choice

family history, legacy, LegacyToo, Oral HistoryBy JamesOctober 27, 2021Leave a comment

The Genealogy Machine can be you… It was barely daylight and closer to dawn as there was no sun even on the horizon. The mission was treasure and everyone whispered, not that anyone could hear but maybe they would. The retired pharmacist had hired the gadget to find the family treasure that had been his…

Coralee the Dressmaking Legacy Maker

family history, legacyBy JamesOctober 26, 2021Leave a comment

Coralee Mae Kinney Fussell, wife, MOM, grandmother, multitalented artist, seamstress moved from Dover Foxcroft Maine to Lake Placid FL, graduating high school there and went to church with her parents Fern & Paul Kinney in Ortona, FL. Coralee’s husband to be joined the Army Transportation Corp before he was old enough with the help of…

Oral History a Living Legacy

family history, Legacy FAQs, LegacyToo, Oral HistoryBy JamesOctober 23, 2021Leave a comment

  Oral history has survived more accurately through the eons of time than any other form of recording. Songs, chants, and stories told by the family have kept the family history alive until today. Hawaiians were able to chant 90 generations of heritage in their form of story telling. You should brainstorm with as many…

Stay in the Boat Legacy

family history, LegacyToo, Oral HistoryBy JamesOctober 22, 2021Leave a comment

Famous grilled oysters on the half shell, half raw, the rest steamed in their own juices kept the diners coming back till the bounty was totally consumed. The gourmet cook never claimed to be a chef but bragged that his home in Naples was within 5 minutes of the finest dining anywhere in North America.…

Fannie the Prayer Warrior

family history, legacy, LegacyToo, Oral HistoryBy JamesOctober 21, 2021Leave a comment

Fannie prayed for everyone. The family record is clear. Fannie was a prayer warrior. People came from miles around to get sister Fannie to come sit and pray with the ailing dying and newborns. Fannie was busy cooking over the wood cookstove when her 5 year old ran into the kitchen and grabbed his mother’s…

Family Stories

family history, legacy, LegacyToo, Oral HistoryBy JamesOctober 21, 2021Leave a comment

Oral History as told by Hanna Gallup. Great Uncle Will showed up in Michigan with a Prince Albert can full of gold nuggets. The table was that of the family patriarch, Gaunce Gallup. Greenfield was a village of Deerborn, Michigan. Gaunce Gallup had contracted to construct several miles of Highway 2 with draft horses and…

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Family History

family history, legacy, Oral HistoryBy JamesOctober 19, 2021Leave a comment

The family history was sacred and to be told as exact as possible. Grandma Fern sat with her hands folded in her lap while she answered my question did she ever go to school? “Why yes child, why would you ask a question like that?” I was just curious and she started the story of…

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