I purchased this image online thinking it was a postcard but no, the reverse side was truly just gray cardboard.

But I am still pleased with my purchase.

The transfer of information for my 8th Grandfather Capt. Matthew Beckwith Sr didn’t work. What next?

I could copy the information manually.. I think I’ll try that.

Capt Matthew Beckwith Sr

1610-1680

8th Great Grandfather

Birth Sept 22, 1680 Pontefract, Yorkshire England Parents Thomas Firth Gillian Beckworth and Anne Dynley

Arrival 1635 Old Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut

Marriage 1637 Hartford Connecticut to Elizabeth Mary Lyne

Birth of daughter Elizabeth 1647 Elizabeth Beckwith 1647-1722

Death October 20,1680 in New London Connecticut when he was 70 years old. He died in an accident. A jury decided “He came to his death by mistaking his way in a dark night, and falling from a clift of rocks”

His occupation was Ship Owner and Planter

I am trying to transfer some genealogy information to my word press blog. I have information from Ancestry.com on Capt Matthew Beckwith Sr my 8th Great Grandfather.

https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/81770598/person/300042084032/story

Now we’ll see if the above reference works.

I found an old photo today. A photo of my grandparents house in Minneapolis Minnesota (on Hennepin), when their family was young and there were diapers on the clothes line. I recognize my grandfather’s handwriting on the reverse side of the photo. When they were newly married my grandparents lived there in Minneapolis, on Hennepin Avenue. The house looks large, to accommodate the young couple, Auntie my grandfather’s sister, and their growing family – twin daughters and 2 additional daughters.

I like my grandfather’s note – “Please excuse the diapers hanging on the clothesline.”

Note: the family moved to Omaha Nebraska a year or 2 later

I didn’t like what I saw today. I was a pedestrian walking along a suburban road. It was a complicated 5 way intersection that I was trying to negotiate. Along came a happy driver – no problems for her – she had her little dog in her lap – I suspected the dog was driving. That would have freed the woman to talk and text as well!

I was early out in the garden today ready to be greeted by the birds and the cat. Where were they? Definitely missing. I waited for a while, did some weeding, a bird or two came for a drink in the water I put out but apart from that – zilch. And I was all ready just to sit and meditate and enjoy the unfolding of the day. It’s actually my neighbor who puts out food for the birds but I guess they ate it all yesterday. I must set up a feeding station in my yard!

Like the stamp also.

Working in my garden this morning, I spent a fair bit of time just standing still, watching and listening to the small birds coming and going in trees. I even saw a hummingbird taking a drink from a small dish, meant for the birds.