In the process, I’ve been learning my way around Roots Magic and source citations. Scanning the notebooks is slower, but it has allowed me to check and update source documentation as I go. I switched from scanning my file folders to scanning my family notebooks. Scanning, scanning and more scanning! My ‘paperless’ project and my ‘genealogy do-over’ projects merged this week. Posted in genealogy | Tagged #52ancestors Do-Over Week Three The poem, God Hath Not Promised, was on her funeral card and sums up her attitude toward life: Winnie’s life of challenges actually began at the age of 10 when her mother died. Before the age of 60, Winnie would bury her third child, L.R., who died suddenly while in college. Winnie and Leon managed to struggle thru the dust bowl and depression of the 30’s even with my grandfather being laid off of work for about a year. My dad was born just a couple of years before the start of the great depression. About a month before her 18th birthday, she watched her first born child, Betty Jean, die within a day of birth. She married my grandfather, Leon Crawford, at age 16. As a wife and mother, my grandmother, Winnie Crawford, had more than her share of challenges.
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