Shopping Saturday: At the Heart of Texas – Foley’s
Posted by Liv | Filed under Shopping Saturday
Shopping Saturday is a blogging prompt genealogy bloggers use to share fond memories about the various stores and vendors their families and ancestors patronized. The baby shoes I featured for Treasure Chest Thursday this week was the perfect lead in to a discussion I had with my mom about where she shopped for our clothes [...]
Tags: department store, Foley's, historic Macy's building, houston, texas
Those Places Thursday: Record Snowfall in Houston, February 1960
Posted by Liv | Filed under Those Places Thursday
t’s “Those Places Thursday” at geneabloggers.com and this blogging prompt gives me a chance to reminiscence about how and where my family lived and to write about “those places” via stories and/or photos. Ask anyone what is the first word that comes to mind when they hear the word Texas, and I guarantee the word [...]
Tags: Carrie Ann Flakes, Elgin, family photos, February 1895, February 1960, historic snowfall, houston, Jon, snowfall, surname, taylor, texas, weather, winter
Yeah … We’re Family – Deal With It!
Posted by Liv | Filed under Genea Musings
y brothers and I are rounding up the Chapple ~ Smith descendants for a Family Dinner Saturday afternoon, 1 December 2012, that we hope will parlay into many family gatherings and reunions for years to come. I sent the invitation below to relatives and 30+ have RSVP that they’re coming. So I’m very EXCITED about [...]
Tags: ancestors, chapple, family dinner, family reunion, genealogy, houston, invitation, Smith, texas
