A couple of things occurred to me about this family research stuff:
1. I want to connect with alive people - I want to go back up the family tree and then go down again in different branches, I think everyone has a little something in their attic to share and it would be cool to see how different or the same the descendants are.
2. My dad knew, or at least corresponded, with that guy William McEwen or Bill McEwen that wrote the book about The Grieve Saga and it looks amazing - there is a bit about it on the internet and I did some screen captures and posted them here on this blog, but I did a bit of poking around at peeks "inside the book" and it looks like he's written 375 pages of stories.? That's the type of thing I'm looking for, I'll check back in with how much it is and I'll do a book report at some point.
3. Willard E. Fenderson was half Grieve because his mother was Ruby Grieve Fenderson.? And there is a DNA test that you can take to see if you came from the same line of Grieves as the Grieve-Turnbull family that came on that boat (can't rememeber the name right now but scroll down a few posts and its in one of those).? So while the Dunnells side people wouldn't have those same DNA markers, the folks that descended from Willard E. Fenderson - even if they didn't grow up with him - would have those same markers - so Charles B. and Pamela and their kids and their kids.? Willard's grandkids are probably about my age so I'm guessing they've got kids now too, mine are 8 and 10 and my sister's son is 16 - so I'm sure there are some kids and teens out there from Willard who are carrying around - in their DNA! - the markers that William McEwen apparently talked about in that book, he's got a website too - I'll find it and link it soon.
Ok, now for the pictures of the day:
Phyllis Dunnells marriage to Willard E. Fenderson at the St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Brookline, Massachusetts about the time of the beginning of WWII.? Rev. Dr. Frederic Lawrence officiated.? A reception followed in the Parrish House.
Presenting:? Mr. and Mrs. Willard E. Fenderson:
Mrs. Phyllis Maud Dunnells Fenderson is a graduate of Brookline High School and Kathleen Dell School, a member of Gamma Beta Gamma and the Brookline Junior Women's Club.
Mr.Willard E. Fenderson is a graduate of Calais Academy High School, University of Maine at Orono, and is now a fourth year student of Tufts College Medical School, a member of Delta Tau Delta social fraternity and Phi Chi medical fraternity.? Upon graduation in September, he will be commissioned as Lt. (jg) naval medical corps.
And that he did, in China, where he apparently contracted malaria which changed the course of the rest of his life, and Phyllis's life too.? I would love to know more about that since my family never really discussed it, I didn't even really know that Willard was married and had children - until I found this scrapbook and I almost missed the facts and dates and people - and chucked it back in the huge box (one of 13 boxes) that I inherited from my dad.?
But this ad for thirty nine cent lobster caught my eye:
At first I thought the lobster ad was a bookmark and I spent a good few minutes thinking about how awesome it would be if lobster were 39 cents a pound now - I would seriously eat it everyday.? Tangent:? I? took my family up to Bar Harbor last summer and we went on a lobster boat - for tourists, it was actually well done and the kids loved it - and we learned that way back in the day in Maine, they fed the prisoners lobster every single day since it was cheap and plentiful and the prisoners complained!? Just goes to prove that old point:? Sometimes you don't know how good you've got it.
Anyway, after thinking about lobster and getting reading to put the book mark back in the unidentified scrapbook album, I opened it up and found all this information about Willard and Phyllis and made a new friend - a distant cousin - on ancestry.com - who has invited me to look around at his family tree.? So seriously super cool, you could say its "wicked good"? - my dad would have said that.
I scanned in three this morning and tomorrow will scan the cake!
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