Memorial Day

Last Friday Alison asked me if Kris's grandpa was in the service.  I asked why and she said she wanted to put a flag on a grave for Memorial Day.  I told her that, no, Kris's grandpa wasn't but mine was, and if she wanted to, we could drive up the West Bend and stick a little American flag in the ground next to his headstone.  I think the boy scouts usually put flags on all the veterans graves, but I told her it didn't matter, we still had a little hand flag left over from the 4th of July last year and we could still do it.

So on the drive up I told her all about my grandpa, at least what I knew from what I as told and from what I read in the letters he wrote home to his parents.  I am sure there are stories my dad could tell her, but at least in the car I had a captive audience.

When we were done she wanted to take a quick drive past their old house.  Sarah was along too, but I think she more wanted to just get out of the house.  At least Alison seemed interested in the stories I was telling as we drove around West Bend.

I have to ask though, why do we put flags on veterans graves on Memorial Day?  Memorial Day is supposed to be for honoring those who gave the ultimate sacrifice.  My grandpa, and many others in that cemetery came home.  Veteran's Day is the day to honor them.  I'm just sayin'.

Lost Documents

Yesterday my dad called to see if I knew when my grandmother was naturalized since I have the majority of the Hahn family tree records.  I told him I might have something in the stack of photo copies I got from my aunt, but I didn't have it recorded in Family Tree Maker.  But it reminded me that I wanted to grab all those documents and read through them and input all the information.  I remember seeing a photo copy of my grandparents' wedding announcement that listed all the attendants, etc. and I wanted to record all of that. 

At one time I had it all in a 6 folder, spiral book.  But the spiral had gotten hooked on something and was pulled out at the bottom.  I had gone through everything and took it out of the spiral folders and put them in, what I thought, was a new folder.  Well now I can't find it.  It isn't in the other bins of folders where I have all my other folders of school stuff stored.  It isn't in the file cabinet, and it isn't in Kris's hope chest.  I went though drawers, and cabinets, but I can't seem to locate it.  If I have lost all those papers, I am going to be really mad.

More Family Tree Stuff

I have once again started up my hobby, researching my family tree. I have already emailed a couple of distant cousins. One lives in Hawaii and was related to my grandmother who was from Canada. I am slowly completing things based off of information found on ancestry.com and it is coming along slowly. Right now in my Family Tree Maker I have a little over 400 people entered. The tree I am making on ancestry.com has 130 or so. It gets hard when you are trying to input info such as birth dates and death dates because I forget which date goes with what person. I think what I need to do is start some files with all the information so I can organize it. What I did find however is that there is a relation who was married to the daughter of McDonalds founder Ray Kroc. I found the obituary for her on ancestry.com with all the names and dates needed. So that is sort of cool.