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52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History – Water

July 16, 2011 By Carol Wilkerson

Water, Water Everywhere It seems like I’ve been around water in some form almost all my life. The above picture is of the Port Orchard, Washington marina where were currently live. But I was born in Olympia, WA which is surrounded by water sources of many kinds: It’s located on Budd Inlet; the Deshutes River [...]

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52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History – Weather

May 1, 2011 By Carol Wilkerson

It was a dark and stormy night… but I’m going to cheat a little bit for this week’s blogging prompt for 52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History – Weather and do a link to a previous post I did on Disasters which included my recollection of the Columbus Day Storm when I was in [...]

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Wordless Wednesday: Greg Age Progression

March 9, 2011 By Carol Wilkerson

I’ll never be able to do a truly Wordless Wednesday, so just abandon that idea. And so, I give you our son Greg in a mini-age progression sequence beginning in 1972. I know the photo says it was in Feb. 1973, but that is when the photo got developed. Greg was thrilled with the [...]

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iPentimento | 52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History – Disasters

March 7, 2011 By Carol Wilkerson

Seattle earthquake aftermath 1965 I barely missed my first disaster by a year. That was the 1949 earthquake here in western Washington. Well, maybe I didn’t miss it completely since my mom was probably pregnant with me at the time. Since I was conceived most likely in January of 1950 and the state was [...]

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Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories – Religious Services

December 20, 2010 By Carol Wilkerson

The Will and Josie Yates House – Olympia, Washington My family, except for my Grandma Josie, were not the church going type. In fact, I don’t think I ever attended a church service of any kind with either of my parents. I did love to spend the night with my Yates grandparents on Christmas [...]