Monday, February 23, 2015

AMANUENSIS MONDAY - TRANSCRIBING MY GRANDMOTHER'S JOURNAL - BIRTH & DEATH DATES - DECEMBER


What does Amanuensis mean anyway?
To put it simply, it means a “person employed to write what another dictates or copy what has been written by another.”

As many of you know from reading previous posts on my blog, my maternal grandmother left a spiral notebook, which I call her journal.  In it she left recipes, a list of 183 family members and their birth dates and some death dates, a list of anniversaries and other various lists or things that were important to her.  It’s a treasure that I cherish.

Today I’m going to be transcribing her list of names & dates from December.  I’m sad to come to the end of my grandmother’s journal posts for birth and death dates.  However, there is much more in her journal and I will keep on posting other transcriptions. 

For the previous posts transcribing January through October, please click on these links.
Amanuensis Monday - Transcribing my grandmother's journal - January
Amanuensis Monday - Transcribing my grandmother's journal – February
Amanuensis Monday - Transcribing my grandmother's journal – March
Amanuensis Monday - Transcribing my grandmother's journal – April
Amanuensis Monday - Transcribing my grandmother's journal – May
Amanuensis Monday - Transcribing my grandmother's journal – June
Amaneunsis Monday - Transcribing my grandmother's journal – July
Amanuensis Monday - Transcribing my grandmother's journal – August
Amanuensis Monday - Transcribing my grandmother's journal – September 
Amanuensis Monday - Transcribing my grandmother's journal – October
Amanuensis Monday - Transcribing my grandmother's journal - November 

Here is the page from her journal.  This journal was begun when my grandmother, Florence L. Bowden, married my grandfather, Joseph A. Milne, in 1906.  She was just 18 years old at the time.  This journal is very old and falling apart.  I have digitized all the pages and have the original stored in a safe, archival box.

(CLICK ON ANY IMAGE TO ENLARGE IT)
December_redacted
Here is my transcription of this page, with some annotations.  I have indicated the family connection in brackets, even thought it’s not part of the document.  I thought you’d like to know who these people are to me.  And, for any cousins out there reading this, maybe you’ll find it helpful.

I’ve added whatever photos I have of the family members named in this list. (See below)


ADDITIONAL NOTE:  I REDACT TH YEAR OF BIRTH & PART OF THE NAMES OF PEOPLE WHO I’M AWARE OF, THAT ARE STILL LIVING, FOR THEIR PROTECTION.

DECEMBER
 
* CAROL LENNEBACKER  Dec 6 
NANCY     Dec 8  [2nd cousin]
KATHLEEN   Dec 12 [3rd cousin]
KATHLEEN  Dec 15  Duplicate name
LYDA TUFTS SEIGLE  Dec 14  ‘88  [wife of 1st cousin twice removed]
ED HOGUE  Dec 16  ‘06  died Sep 11  ‘73  [husband of 1st cousin once removed]
ALLAN MACNICHOL  Dec 25  ‘91  died July 4  ‘61?  [husband of grand aunt]
*  Nelson’s girl  BREHMER  Dec 18  ‘31 
CORNELIA KING   Dec 7  ‘14  [2nd cousin once removed]
NORMAN GOULD   Dec 31  ‘12 [my Dad]
JOAN ESTHER MILNE  Dec 20  ‘15  [my maternal aunt]
*  PAUL PLATZ  Dec 20  ‘19 
JAMES MORRISON  Dec 19   Aug 27  ‘58 [aunt’s husband’s father]
EDNA MORRISON  Dec 28   Mar 1  ;67  [aunt’s husband’s mother]
*   GRACE SEARLS  Dec 23  ‘90  Dec 12, 1960
NORMAN HAROLD GOULD  Dec 31  ‘12  Duplicate
CHAS LINDOW
*  SYLVIA PASKE  DEC 31  ‘15 
CHAS.  KING  Dec 31  ‘87 [1st cousin twice removed]

That’s a total of 19 names.  I am very fortunate to have this kind of list from my grandmother.
I have placed an asterisk * next to the names I have not yet connected to our family.
FIVE of the names are still waiting for me to find their connections.  I have them in my Legacy database as unlinked individuals.  Were they friends of my grandmother & grandfather, neighbors, or are they all family?  Two of the names appear to be duplicates and one name is crossed out.

In the lists from the other 11 months of the year, there are also names that aren’t yet connected.  I keep looking from time to time and link them as I identify them.

This month I have photographs of five of the people on the list.



 
Left to right they are, Lyda Tufts Seigle, Allan McNichol, Joan Milne Morrison and Chas. King

   TUFTS_Lida_headshot cropped from pic of her and Arthur_1916   MacNICHOL_Allan_headshot cropped from newspaper article_fixed & cropped  Milne_Joan_circa unknown  
And the fifth person is my Dad.  I have many photos of him through the years.  Here are a few of them.
Dad with his mother on the steps_circa 1914
My Dad with his mother, Marie - 1914
Gould Family around dining table_probably 1924
The Gould family - 1924
H. Norman Gould-1933-cropped
Dad in 1933 - age 21
GOULD_Patricia & Harry_Norman_bringing Diane home from hospital_Mar 1950_DetroitWayneMichigan
My parents bringing me home
GOULD_Norm_Marie_Diane & Norm II_on the day we left Pompano_May 1965_PomBchFlorida_cropped
Dad, his mother, me & my brother Norm - 1965
GOULD_H Norman with his daught Norlaine & Virginia at airport_1981_DetroitMichigan
Dad reunites with his daughters Norlaine & Virginia - 1981
And here’s my favorite picture of me and my Dad on my birthday in 1981.
GOULD_Diane with her Dad Harry Norman Gould on her birthday in 1981
Happy hunting,
A_michigan girl

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