FAMILY RECIPE FRIDAY - HOW TO MAKE SHAMPOO

FAMILY RECIPE FRIDAY

My grandmother, Florence Bowden Milne left us a spiral bound notebook, which I refer to has her journal.  The entire notebook is written in her hand.  In it she left a treasure chest of family information and wonderful clues to life back in the early 1900's. 

My Grandmother at age 18 - when she began her notebook

A recipe doesn't necessarily have to be something that is for cooking.  With that in mind I will be sharing various types of recipes, both for cooking and for other things from my grandmother's journal.  These items range from recipes for shampoo (featured today), to curling fluids for your hair to cures for blackheads or acne, chocolate fudge and how to tell if your wood-burning stove is the correct temperature.  You'll see them all here as the weeks continue.  So, please come back often.

TODAY'S FEATURED RECIPE

SHAMPOO

How to make shampoo
Please enlarge the picture above if you want to see it more clearly

Many of the items used in my grandmother's recipes aren't even available to us any more.  But, what fun it is to look at them.

Have we ever thought of our ancestor's lives without all of our modern conveniences?  Even something as common as shampoo had to be made by hand.

Can you find any old recipes from your family?

Happy hunting,

Michigan Girl 

Copyright ©  2013   Diane Gould Hall

SURNAME SATURDAY - BOGGS & LUNSFORD

SURNAME SATURDAY

William Allen BOGGS and Nancy Delilah LUNSFORD

 

William Allen BOGGS and Nancy Delilah LUNSFORD are my 3rd Great Grandparents.  The unexpected pictures of them came from a cousin.  One of those cousins I found through my research who has provided several good family photos and some information.  There's that cousin connection I spoke about in my earlier posts.  William & Nancy were married 11 Apr 1839 in Lawrence County, Ohio.  

This family has connections in Kentucky, West Virginia and Ohio.  Their daughter Susan Caroline BOGGS married James Gillen HUNTER on 29 Aug 1859 in Lawrence Co., Ohio.  They had 9 children, seven girls and two boys.  The first five children were born in Ohio, in, I believe, Lawrence County.  Sadly he died in 1884, when several of their children were still living in the home. His widow, Susan, married two more times.  

If anyone reading this has any connection to the BOGGS or HUNTER family, please contact me.  I have never found out where James Gillen HUNTER died or where he is buried.  It's probable that  he died in Kentucky, since the family was living there in the 1880 census.  

CREATING PHOTO BACKGROUNDS FOR YOUR FAMILY TREES

SATURDAY FUN

 

How about creating some family trees with various backgrounds?  I don't spend enough time doing this and I probably should.  I need to create some fun things for our grandchildren and other family members.  Then they can just look at the picture on the wall and say "that's my great grandfather or great grandmother."  

It's important to teach them about family.  And doing these kinds of things is fun for us.  I created these in Legacy Family Tree by going to "Reports" and then to "Family Picture Tree Report."  You can change the backgrounds and use any picture from your hard drive, or one of the pictures they provide.

 

CREATING FAMILY TREES WITH VARIOUS BACKGROUNDS

SATURDAY FUN

To stay with the Surname Saturday theme.

How many surnames are in your family tree?

Yup, that's right, let's count those surnames.

I won't have to manually count mine because my Legacy database will do it for me.  Here's how.......

 First click on the "Reports" menu

If you don't have the Reports icon on your top menu you can find it on the text menu across the top of your page

             
Second - once the small window opens, click on the "Books/Other" tab and select "Surname Summary"

Next you'll see a box pop-up that is titled "Surname Summary."  Click on the "preview" box.  

NOTE:  Be sure you have selected "screen/printer" as your report destination (at the bottom).

     Once you've selected "preview," Legacy will immediately    generate a report. Mine was 18 pages long. Showing every surname, how many times the surname appears in my database and the date range for the names.

HOW COOL IS THAT?

 So, how many surnames do I have in my database?

987

Do this in your database and tell me how many you have.

Happy Counting,

Michigan Girl