Showing posts with label The Project. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Project. Show all posts

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Finally, here's the project.

http://pix.kg/p/445030030508%3A462670833/sct

(I'm afraid I don't know how to just have viewers click on the line; it has to be copied and pasted.)

It's a kind of ancestor journal I made for my brother, Frank. I had done a similar one for my sister on our mutual birthday, but this includes more. I show some representative pages: our Irish and German antecedents first, then our parents' info, their marriage, etc., then Frank's birth (fourth child of six). Besides photos and a narrative, I included copies of documents, such as our great-grandfather's 1823 baptismal certificate from Alsace-Lorraine, with a translation, and our father's listing in an engineer's book, citing his bachelor's and master's degree. There are about forty pages in all, ending with Frank and his Marybeth. Anyway, he liked it a lot and so did his children.

The pictures are more easily seen if you make them full-screen--see bottom right.

THURSDAY

 Breakfast with Keith and Rambling On Ray sat down with us. After, I took my hour nap, then went down to wait for Rick to drive me to Von...