Monday, July 28, 2008

Family History Discovery

I found out the link I had posted only worked on my browser. There are a number of steps I still need to take to actually bring up my genealogy web page. I will try to do it today.

I just finished entering all the information (I hope) and am printing out the pedigree charts (28 pages) It is so interesting to read about their lives. the thing that struck me the most was how many people lost their babies and little children. It seems it was very common in those days for a lot of different reasons. I am exhausted. I am going to do my best to make a document you can all look at.
I have Garth and Julie's 2 middle children for 3 days. They finally have a chance to get away alone. I hope they have a great time.
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July 29th Just another note on this: I had emailed the gentleman (Bo) in Sweden who had posted the information about our relatives. Yesterday I received a very nice letter from him. He told me he had met my parents when they were over there in the 60s. Isn't that interesting? He is my 2nd cousin; my father's 1st cousin. Anyway he sent me several documents in Swedish and thanks to Sherry, I found a site that you can enter one language and it will translate it to another almost instantaneously, which I did (Could only do 150 words at a time so it took awhile). As soon as I convert them to a pdf document I will post a link to them on this blog so you can all look at them if you would like to. My Grandmother Julia Sophia was a sister to Bo's Grandmother.
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Mon July 28th -Yesterday was a very exciting day for me!
I have tried for so long to find some information about the Dahlberg line to no avail. Recently I signed up with a new Swedish site that prints info in English also. Yesterday I was able to find hundreds of names on my father's direct line. I will get them entered into a database asap so that anyone who is interested can have the information.
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Uncle Ralph

June 25th - As most of you know, Ralph had a complete hip replacement over a week ago and is mending pretty well we think. The first surgery was not healing right - it was crooked so they decided to finally do this surgery. He should be much better off once it is completely healed.
It was quite an ordeal for him
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As most of you know, my brother Ralph was in a horrible car accident yesterday morning (Sat Apr 19th) Actually it was about 1 o'clock in the morning. He was on his paper route and driving along about 60 miles an hour he said when a car came over the hill and was in his lane. He had no time to do anything; the car just hit him head on.
We are all feeling fortunate that Ralph is still with us. He was hurt quite badly with several broken bones. However, he didn't lose consciousness, which means a lot and he is trying to keep his spirits up which means a lot.
Neil kindly drove mom and I to the hospital in Tacoma yesterday and we stayed there and visited with his family until he was out of surgery and then out of the recovery room. We did get to visit with him for a while in his room. He is in a lot of pain but they have changed his pain medication now and it is helping him.

Here is his address if you would like to send him a card which I know he would enjoy receiving.
Ralph R. Dahlberg Room 516 J Wing
Tacoma General Hospital
315 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
PO BX 5299
Tacoma, WA . 98415

Time Goes by

This past Friday night I rode with Neil and Maddy to the Elma Football Field to watch two of our grandsons play soccer.
Jesse Burbidge (Cindy & Arlin's) played for the Elma soccer team and did a great job. Dalton Newell (Eldon & Candy's) played for Tumwater. He did a great job also but was limited on the time he could play as he was plagued with a nosebleed.
It brought back a lot of memories of past football games. Eldon, Gordon, Garth, Aaron, Josh and Dan all played football for Elma. They loved it with a passion. I loved going to the games and rooting for the boys.
How quickly time passes. It seemed so strange to be there at the football field watching my children's children play. I don't get to go very often but enjoy it when I do.
Jesse is Captain of his team and will graduate from high school this year so he doesn't have too many games left to play.
It was good to sit with the family and enjoy their company.

Favorite Memory from Childhood