For me, 2013 was a year of fractures and surgeries ... but also a year of many memories and fine visits with cousins. I now lose my cane enough that I must be making a lot of progress! Or is it just a (dys)function of memory?
In August, we left our mountain cabin outside Yellowstone, and traveled to Seattle and back. After visiting Alice's five first cousins in Seattle, we visited Liz Tyler Norton in Olympia, WA and Melanie Tyler Kanz in Idaho. Melanie lives in Seattle
Melanie and family were at the Gregerson family cabin in McCall, Idaho, which had been built by Melanie's grandfather Rudolph (Rud) Gregerson
Rud was the son of Inger Tomine 'Minnie'Thygesen Gregerson, daughter of Elling and Anne Thygesen.
It was a very nice opportunity for fourth cousins to get together after a very long time in which the Knud line and the Elling line had drifted far apart
After leaving Melanie, we visited my first cousin, Nancy Nelson Goodrum and her husband in Boise. Nancy is one of my four remaining cousins of the Knud Thygesen Naas line, via his eldest daughter, Mariken.
But our cousin visiting was not yet complete. After leaving western cousins, we flew to our son and family in Connecticut.
There we had a nice visit with my second cousin Nancy Rey Kerrigan, granddaughter of my GM's sister Nelia ... and ...my father's second cousins, Dorothy Ritzen and Doreen Anderson, granddaughters of my gr GM Mariken's youngest sister, Olette Knudsdatter Ottestad.
I would be happy to receive and publish stories and pictures of the experiences and thoughts of any of the members of our 'virtual reunion'. A virtual reunion is a pale image of a real reunion, and as the photos suggest, some of us are no longer so young. I'd welcome ideas about how we might figure out how to do the real thing. I'm not sure how many are seeing this site, but the number of 'members' has been stuck on 30, and I am certainly eager to add more. I keep sending out the web address, and presumably some of those folks are looking if not joining.
I feel as though I have quite a bit of new information that I'd like to share, but I'm reluctant to do it without the participation, or at least the permission, of the members of those families. Advice will be welcome. In the meantime, have a wonderful Christmas and a great New Year!
In August, we left our mountain cabin outside Yellowstone, and traveled to Seattle and back. After visiting Alice's five first cousins in Seattle, we visited Liz Tyler Norton in Olympia, WA and Melanie Tyler Kanz in Idaho. Melanie lives in Seattle
Melanie and family were at the Gregerson family cabin in McCall, Idaho, which had been built by Melanie's grandfather Rudolph (Rud) Gregerson
Rud was the son of Inger Tomine 'Minnie'Thygesen Gregerson, daughter of Elling and Anne Thygesen.
It was a very nice opportunity for fourth cousins to get together after a very long time in which the Knud line and the Elling line had drifted far apart
After leaving Melanie, we visited my first cousin, Nancy Nelson Goodrum and her husband in Boise. Nancy is one of my four remaining cousins of the Knud Thygesen Naas line, via his eldest daughter, Mariken.
But our cousin visiting was not yet complete. After leaving western cousins, we flew to our son and family in Connecticut.
There we had a nice visit with my second cousin Nancy Rey Kerrigan, granddaughter of my GM's sister Nelia ... and ...my father's second cousins, Dorothy Ritzen and Doreen Anderson, granddaughters of my gr GM Mariken's youngest sister, Olette Knudsdatter Ottestad.
I would be happy to receive and publish stories and pictures of the experiences and thoughts of any of the members of our 'virtual reunion'. A virtual reunion is a pale image of a real reunion, and as the photos suggest, some of us are no longer so young. I'd welcome ideas about how we might figure out how to do the real thing. I'm not sure how many are seeing this site, but the number of 'members' has been stuck on 30, and I am certainly eager to add more. I keep sending out the web address, and presumably some of those folks are looking if not joining.
I feel as though I have quite a bit of new information that I'd like to share, but I'm reluctant to do it without the participation, or at least the permission, of the members of those families. Advice will be welcome. In the meantime, have a wonderful Christmas and a great New Year!
No comments:
Post a Comment