Recent Posts Tagged With 'strong'

• Bling! Bling! My Garnet Ring

  Posted on Sunday August 9th, 2009 at 04:00 in strong, hoekstra, i smile for the camera carnival

  This garnet ring once belonged to my maternal grandmother, Ruth Lillian HOEKSTRA VALK DeVRIES. It's probably not extraordinarily valuable, although it does have four genuine garnets and is made of 14K gold. Garnets are not my birthstones; aquamarines...

• Fire!

  Posted on Saturday August 1st, 2009 at 16:27 in wright, strong, carnival of genealogy

  In the Family Record Book of my maternal great-grandparents, John Martin HOEKSTRA and Lillian Fern STRONG, my great-grandmother writes:In 1907, Ma, Pa, [siblings] Frank, Ethel, Ed and I went [from Western Michigan] to live on a company ranch in Orego...

• Friday Findings: A Potluck of Goodies

  Posted on Friday July 10th, 2009 at 18:52 in strong, robbins, hoekstra, friday findings

  This week brought a hodgepodge of different genealogical goodies my way!The Photo AlbumI've been reviewing and analyzing the contents of a photograph album/scrapbook that my maternal great-grandmother kept (one of the items my uncle brought out to us...