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Showing posts with label Halle West. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halle West. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Grandchildren Are Great!

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[Day 3 Lion's Head Location Clue/Hint: The place where this lion's head exists has several buildings, with the newest building housing some very sensitive items that the building must maintain a constant temperature of about 70-72 degrees year around... the lion's head is on/in an older building See TSGS Cruiser Blog ~ http://tsgsblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/guess-where-this-lions-head-is-located.html]




Here is a very proud grandmother with a new sweat shirt with the names of her grandchildren!

Becky West is showing off the gift from Halle & Evan she got late, last year. I thought this was good timing since my son & family are coming into Evansville to visit... they live near King's Island northeast of Cincinnati. With Memorial Day weekend coming up, I am sure many will have family reunions or other types of get togethers. This coming Sunday, my Selvin High School Freshman Class will have a class reunion (our small high school was closed due to statewide "consolidation" in 1962 making our class the last Selvin Freshman Class). Selvin is in northeastern Warrick Co., IN. Yellow Banks Park & Recreation Center is just north of Selvin... agreat place to enjoy Memorial Day weekend. Friday, Becky & I will be decorating graves of family members, a serious tradition (duty, actually) that Mom faithfully did each year to remember family that had passed on. I drove her around for years, so after she died I ended up doing this each year. Over the years, I have found new information about my family as I went from cemetery to cemetery.


I hope that everyone has a great Memorial Day and may you learn something new about your family history! - JGWest


Wednesday, July 28, 2010

From the FIRST MATE's
PHOTO ALBUM...

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Guess who has a birthday today?
No, not me! My grandson Evan West!
Below is the proud "Pre-School" Graduate!
The sophisticated Ring Bearer at his Aunt Elisabeth's wedding. West... Evan West, Agent 007.5
Below is the suave, debonair Evan West who stole the hearts of all of the ladies on the dance floor at the Wedding Reception!
Posing with his big sister Halle West (Flower Girl).
Happy Birthday, Evan from Grandma & Grandpa.
- Photos submitted by JGWest




Tuesday, July 6, 2010

From the FIRST MATE's
PHOTO ALBUM...

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My Grandson, Evan, graduated in June this summer...

and his family was there to celebrate the day! L-R: JJ West, Halle West, Evan West (the Graduate) and Christie West.
I post this photo to remind all of our genealogy friends that for special events like Easter, Memorial day, 4th. of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc. and graduations, weddings & even funerals are good times to be with your families and learn about the living family, as well as, the ones that have passed on in time. Get family addresses, phone numbers and email - so you can keep in touch. Send your family members a brief history of the family as it relates to them... then keep them posted as to any changes or additions. Sharing with them may mean that, later, they will share with you.

- Compiled by JGWest

Monday, March 15, 2010

"Family Dance"

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Family Dance...
...Dance Recital, that is.

TSGS Board Member, Becky West, with her grand daughter in the Cincinnati area (Kings School). Seven year old Halle West was in her school's Dance Recital in one of about 20 acts featuring over 100 kids from kindergarten to the 12th. grade. She got four bouquets of flowers from admirers! This is her second year participating and she loves it!!!

- Photo taken & submitted by JGWest

Friday, February 5, 2010

From the FIRST MATE's
PHOTO ALBUM...

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Four Generation Family Tree

by Halle West
[Click on image to get a larger, readable image]
- Tree drawn & submitted by Halle E. West (7 year old grand daughter of John & Becky West)

Monday, February 1, 2010

NAVIGATING ALONG the RIVER -
Research Tips

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Spelling in Research Records
Yesterday we got a new 1 year old Westie by the name of "Ollie" (picture below). I have a grand daughter by the name of "Halle" same name as Halle Berry, the singer. I have the same problem that my father had with certain words, names and pronouncing some words with additional letters added. For example: "wash" is "warsher" as in warsh your hands, warsh cloth & warsher machine. I try to get the "r" out of that word, but I generally do not succeed! Back to names, I have had a very hard time saying "Halle"... I want to say "Holle." Now we have a "Ollie" that I want to say "Allie" - I can not win!!!

Oliver Glen Monty (Ollie for short)
Back when Census takers or county clerks were recording information, they had some of these quirks, too, as Dad & I, but probably much worse. They usually tried to spell the name as it was pronounced. If people talked with accents or just plain did not talk clearly, especially with some chewing tobacco or "snuff" in their mouth, it was difficult for the recorder of the name to spell it correctly. A name like "Woodis" easily becomes "Wootes" with names like "Phipps" being "Fips" - "Cruse" = "Crews" or "Kruze!" I have corresponded with many people who would not accept my "Ferguson" because their family always spelled the name "Fergason" or "Furgason" etc. But, the name was generally spelled out by someone else in the records not by the family. Many families adopted a certain spelling of their name mostly in just the last 100 years or so. Which means that two brothers might adopt a different variation of the name (especially if they lived a distance from each other)... are they any less related as brothers - I think not!
Expect names to be sometimes significantly different than you might normally expect. I try to list all of the variations I find for a name and try to think of others. For the name Woodis: Wootis, Wootes, Wootas, Woottis, Woottes, Woottas, Wooddis, Wooddes, Woodes, Woods, Wooddus, Woodus, Wooddas, Woodas, Whoulduss, Woodduss, etc., etc. I have over 50 variations of this name not counting obvious, careless mis-spellings. For several years, I looked for my Amos Phipps in the 1820 U.S. Census Records and could not find him. I found him by accident while looking for some of my Flatt ancestors, he was listed as "Amus Fips!"
Just keep in mind that if they should be there and you can not find them... it might be that the name is spelled a lot differently than you normally search for.
- Written by JGWest

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

From the FIRST MATE's
PHOTO ALBUM...

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Early Christmas with our grandchildren in Cincinnati 19 Dec 2009.
Evan West (4) is playing with the battery operated drum sticks that was surprisingly a very big hit!
Halle West (7 in Jan.) loves to read books and she liked this one on the planets of our solar system.



It is such a joy to see them enjoy some of the more basic things of life: music & books!



- Photos taken & submitted by JGWest

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

From the FIRST MATE's
PHOTO ALBUM...

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My grand daughter's version of patriotism...

Halle West of Cincinnati drew this bust of the Statue of Liberty with the U.S. flag as background at school this year. Halle is six years old.

- Submitted by JJ West

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

From the FIRST MATE's
PHOTO ALBUM...

A few Halloween photos that came in too late for the TSGS Halloween Photo Contest, that I decided to post for today.

My wife Becky works with these two kids' (Brian & Allison) mother at the Little Sisters of the Poor St. John's Home for the Aging (nursing home). Photos taken by Jenny Morphew


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These photos are of my grandkids... Evan & Halle. Photos taken by JJ & Christie West.
Red Power Ranger and Dorothy of the "Wizard of Oz"





Sunday, November 1, 2009

"Halloween Photo Contest - Late Entries"

More Halloween Photos...

"Very Cool Lighted Pumpkin" - Photo taken & submitted by Janel Jett (pumpkin carved by Janel!)
"Blog Master's Choice" Chef Don trying to bury his soup bones!
- Submitted by Don Counts

"Chef Don's Living Hotdog Sandwich" - Submitted by Don Counts


"Chef Don with Construction Worker" - Submitted by Don Counts

"The JibJab Counts Family 2009" - Submitted by Don Counts
"Best Clown" - Submitted by "Mysterious Doc"


"Best Adults" - Submitted by "Mysterious Doc"

"Best Bunny" - Submitted by "Mysterious Doc"

" Best Princess" - Submitted on behalf of Cincinnati O. West (Halle's 4th. Great Grandmother)

"Best Witch" - Submitted by Carol Stepp Wallace

"Man Breaking into Boarded-Up House" - Submitted by Igor Balanski

- Submitted by Perry Chute

"Sparky & Kids" - Photo taken & submitted by Linda Young-Niemeier



Thanks to all who participated in this contest... sorry that we could not publish more of the photos submitted. We can post a few more if they are exceptional. - JGWest


Saturday, October 31, 2009

"Winners - TSGS Halloween Photo Contest"

Here is the best costume for 2009! Jazz is a true winner! - Photo taken by Linda Young-Niemeier

Halloween Photos...

We did not get very many submissions, but here are some of the best sent in and from some of my photos (click on photos to enlarge it). I will continue to post any entries that I get today, so there is still time to get your photo in!!!

Got some new photos submitted by my buddy Noah Stine. Some of you may know him by his first name Frankie (he prefers his middle name). He took these pictures of the West Family "Deadend Cemetery" 2009 edition.

- submitted by Frank N. Stine
- Submitted by Frank N. Stine

- Submitted by Frank N. Stine

Halle... somewhere near Cincinnati.
- Submitted by JGWest






- Submitted by JGWest

- Photo submitted by the "Mysterious Doc"


- Photo submitted by the "Mysterious Doc"


This little tiger knows the other two are not kids!!!
- Photo submitted by the "Mysterious Doc"



One big ugly purple spider.
- Submitted by Pelly Cann



Dracula or Harry Potter?
- Submitted by Perry Chute


- Submitted by JGWest

- Submitted by JGWest



- Submitted by Richard Cory


- Submitted by Igor Balanski

- Submitted by JGWest