Like this concrete driveway with grass growing in the middle, my life is going in only one direction.
This is the driveway for my grandparent's house. I had forgotten about the grass growing in the center. It must have been a pain to take care of. With my driving ability, I would surely drive over it! I so hate driving.
Soon, I will be moving forward to the gate in the middle of this driveway. We start, tomorrow, by looking for a new place to live. We have our first house viewing appointment.
It has been a time of change here. We have made the arrangements for the rug to be replaced in our family room and had our entire lawn cleaned. The "junk" in the cellar is not cleaned out completely but it will be soon.
I have been missing my grandparents and parents as I go through the wast collection of Kodachrome slides and using my friends scanner to scan them. I imagine this driveway shot was taken before I was born.
Forward!
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Genealogist's Journal 18 April 2010
Genealogist's Journal 18 April 2010
Further Investigation of Peleg Everett Champlin (my aunt's grandfather)
Bob Champlin sent me a link to this newspaper article in The Day (a New London, CT newspaper that is still published) of 23 Nov 1915 about the murder that Peleg was sent to prison at the RI State Prison in the Howard section of Cranston, RI and subsequently murdered himself in a prison riot.
I am not well versed in searching for newpaper articles but I can see that I need to get better at it. I really think this is an exciting part of genealogy's relationship to family history.
Further Investigation of Peleg Everett Champlin (my aunt's grandfather)
Bob Champlin sent me a link to this newspaper article in The Day (a New London, CT newspaper that is still published) of 23 Nov 1915 about the murder that Peleg was sent to prison at the RI State Prison in the Howard section of Cranston, RI and subsequently murdered himself in a prison riot.
I am not well versed in searching for newpaper articles but I can see that I need to get better at it. I really think this is an exciting part of genealogy's relationship to family history.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Controller Buttons
Blog Post #4 on the ION Film2SD Scanner
On the top of the scanner are the controller buttons. The one marked Power is obviously how you power on the device,and you should do that without the slide/film carrier inserted. (notice the light glows)
Open the carrier, insert the film or slides according to the directions and shut the cover. Then, insert the carrier until the first slide/frame is in view. The first time the OK button is pushed you get the icons on the screen to control the choices of how the slide/frame is manipulated.
When you have that set, then you press the OK button again to scan it. When the red light on the screen goes on, you can gently slide the carrier to the next slide/frame.
I was so busy that I forgot to scan this slide! It is easy, once you get into the "groove" of scanning to miss scanning one slide/frame.
On the top of the scanner are the controller buttons. The one marked Power is obviously how you power on the device,and you should do that without the slide/film carrier inserted. (notice the light glows)
Open the carrier, insert the film or slides according to the directions and shut the cover. Then, insert the carrier until the first slide/frame is in view. The first time the OK button is pushed you get the icons on the screen to control the choices of how the slide/frame is manipulated.
When you have that set, then you press the OK button again to scan it. When the red light on the screen goes on, you can gently slide the carrier to the next slide/frame.
I was so busy that I forgot to scan this slide! It is easy, once you get into the "groove" of scanning to miss scanning one slide/frame.
Insert SD Card
Blog Post #3 on the ION Film2SD Scanner
Following the directions, first, you plug in the cable to the back of the scanner and then into the wall. Then, you insert an SD card, label side down and "gold fingers" in first. I used a 1 GB SD card. Each slide is about 900 KB in size so you will be able to get many slides scanned in one sitting.
All resulting files are in JPG format.
Following the directions, first, you plug in the cable to the back of the scanner and then into the wall. Then, you insert an SD card, label side down and "gold fingers" in first. I used a 1 GB SD card. Each slide is about 900 KB in size so you will be able to get many slides scanned in one sitting.
All resulting files are in JPG format.
The Screen
Blog Post #2 on the ION Film2SD Scanner.
Priced at about $100 [Amazon], this is a close up of the screen during the process of scanning Kodachrome slides.
Notice that the slide can be flipped onscreen if you didn't place it in the carrier correctly. The top icon is the one that saves what you see on the screen to the SD card.
Priced at about $100 [Amazon], this is a close up of the screen during the process of scanning Kodachrome slides.
Notice that the slide can be flipped onscreen if you didn't place it in the carrier correctly. The top icon is the one that saves what you see on the screen to the SD card.
ION Flim2SD Scanner
Blog Post #1 on the ION Film2SD Scanner
I know this may not look like a family heirloom but it is a remarkable piece of affordable technology that can help you scan Kodachrome slides and film negatives from your family collections.
ION Flim2SD Scanner is very easy to use and scans to an SD card. No computer is needed for this process. Included is a cable to hook this device to your TV for easy slide or film viewing.
My friend, an self-professed gadget queen, Kathy Schrock purchased this for her parents to use. She gave them a quick lesson and they scanned their whole family collections in stages. When they filled up the SD card, she took it to her house and archived them to her computer, emptied the SD card and brought it back to them.
This process went very smoothly. The resulting photos are just as good as the ones I have been scanning with my Epson Perfection V500 scanner and it is a much faster process. I took this photo of a slide on the screen on the ION so you could see what it looks like.
Next post will be a different view of the scanner.
I know this may not look like a family heirloom but it is a remarkable piece of affordable technology that can help you scan Kodachrome slides and film negatives from your family collections.
ION Flim2SD Scanner is very easy to use and scans to an SD card. No computer is needed for this process. Included is a cable to hook this device to your TV for easy slide or film viewing.
My friend, an self-professed gadget queen, Kathy Schrock purchased this for her parents to use. She gave them a quick lesson and they scanned their whole family collections in stages. When they filled up the SD card, she took it to her house and archived them to her computer, emptied the SD card and brought it back to them.
This process went very smoothly. The resulting photos are just as good as the ones I have been scanning with my Epson Perfection V500 scanner and it is a much faster process. I took this photo of a slide on the screen on the ION so you could see what it looks like.
Next post will be a different view of the scanner.
Friday, April 09, 2010
Hilltop Drive
I was blown away by finding this slide in the box that I "organized" when I was a young girl. My grandmother told me to take the slides I wanted to keep and put them aside in a box separate from their cruise and trip pictures.
How smart she was to let me do that! I put this box next to the small bureau I took from my parents house and I really thought it was lost until the spring rainstorm of 2010 this past month flooded my basement. I spied it on the floor and scooped it up.
I sat in a chair in the living room this week and with the non illuminated viewer, I took a look at each and every slide. Some of them I have prints of and some are ones (like this one) that I didn't know existed.
The house to the far left is the house my parents bought in the fall of 1947. I was born in December of 1947. I can't find any slides of my then very pregnant mother. I am not surprised. She was very figure and fashion conscious.
I knew the house was tan when they bought it but they must have painted it gray soon after I was born but it is hard to tell since all the snapshots in the photo box are black and white.
After a few mistakes, I learned to use the Epson Perfection V500 scanner with the slide attachment that I bought this past Christmas. The manual is online and is not very good. It relies on pictures to show users how to set up the scanner. At first, I didn't realize I was supposed to use the "Full Auto Mode" to get the scanner to stop and scan each of the color transparency slides. After figuring that out, I struggled to get the slide facing the correct way. I didn't want to spend my time flipping and rotating each slide.
After capturing them, posting them to my Flickr account, and backing them up to my external hard drive, I wondered how printing them to my Epson Stylus Photo R800 printer would work out. I am pleased to tell you that it was perfect. The colors are excellent for slides so very old.
I am going to mail a print to the folks who lived in the two houses next to my parents. They will be stunned to see their houses looking so new!
Next, I am going to borrow my friend's stand alone slide scanner to see if it is easier and faster than doing this 4 slides at a time. I will report on that process.
The car in the driveway is my mother's car a Ford Phaeton. A very snazzy car for its time. My father is the man standing next to it. The huge black Cadillac is my grandparent's car. My grandfather must be taking the picture. I know they moved in in September 1947 and I think this must be moving day!
If you like to use Google Maps or Google Earth, you can find these houses on Hilltop Drive in Cranston, Rhode Island. My house, which still stands is number 60.
How smart she was to let me do that! I put this box next to the small bureau I took from my parents house and I really thought it was lost until the spring rainstorm of 2010 this past month flooded my basement. I spied it on the floor and scooped it up.
I sat in a chair in the living room this week and with the non illuminated viewer, I took a look at each and every slide. Some of them I have prints of and some are ones (like this one) that I didn't know existed.
The house to the far left is the house my parents bought in the fall of 1947. I was born in December of 1947. I can't find any slides of my then very pregnant mother. I am not surprised. She was very figure and fashion conscious.
I knew the house was tan when they bought it but they must have painted it gray soon after I was born but it is hard to tell since all the snapshots in the photo box are black and white.
After a few mistakes, I learned to use the Epson Perfection V500 scanner with the slide attachment that I bought this past Christmas. The manual is online and is not very good. It relies on pictures to show users how to set up the scanner. At first, I didn't realize I was supposed to use the "Full Auto Mode" to get the scanner to stop and scan each of the color transparency slides. After figuring that out, I struggled to get the slide facing the correct way. I didn't want to spend my time flipping and rotating each slide.
After capturing them, posting them to my Flickr account, and backing them up to my external hard drive, I wondered how printing them to my Epson Stylus Photo R800 printer would work out. I am pleased to tell you that it was perfect. The colors are excellent for slides so very old.
I am going to mail a print to the folks who lived in the two houses next to my parents. They will be stunned to see their houses looking so new!
Next, I am going to borrow my friend's stand alone slide scanner to see if it is easier and faster than doing this 4 slides at a time. I will report on that process.
The car in the driveway is my mother's car a Ford Phaeton. A very snazzy car for its time. My father is the man standing next to it. The huge black Cadillac is my grandparent's car. My grandfather must be taking the picture. I know they moved in in September 1947 and I think this must be moving day!
If you like to use Google Maps or Google Earth, you can find these houses on Hilltop Drive in Cranston, Rhode Island. My house, which still stands is number 60.
Sunday, April 04, 2010
Actually Knowing Your Ancestors
Randy Seaver always has interesting "genealogy math/relationship" ideas for his Saturday night fun.
I (1947-) knew my maternal grandfather, Evans Stewart (1886-1955).
Evans Stewart knew his father Charles Stewart (1859-1937) and his father's mother Eliza Fish Denison (1833-1909), wife of Dudley Stewart.
Eliza Fish Denison knew her mother Levina Fish (1794-1890), wife of Isaac Dension, Jr. (1790-1855) who served in the Revolutionary War. In fact, Levina lived in the very house that he opened up to the troops returning from the Battle of Long Island (also called the Battle of Brooklyn) until she was very old. She was 95 years old when she died.
I (1947-) knew my maternal grandfather, Evans Stewart (1886-1955).
Evans Stewart knew his father Charles Stewart (1859-1937) and his father's mother Eliza Fish Denison (1833-1909), wife of Dudley Stewart.
Eliza Fish Denison knew her mother Levina Fish (1794-1890), wife of Isaac Dension, Jr. (1790-1855) who served in the Revolutionary War. In fact, Levina lived in the very house that he opened up to the troops returning from the Battle of Long Island (also called the Battle of Brooklyn) until she was very old. She was 95 years old when she died.
Friday, April 02, 2010
Genealogist's Jounal 2 April 2010
It has been a long week here in flood country. The awful rainstorm caused rivers and lakes to overflow and even my basement got flooded. We have never had a water problem before. My rug is ruined and I have had to move a lot of things to higher ground.
From Amy Coffin comes this good news, the Census 2010 may have realized that thousands or tens of thousands of census forms that were addressed to those of us with post office boxes have been returned. My local post office delivered the reminder postcard and not the original form. The postmaster here did not think my concern was warranted until I told her it was a Federal crime not to fill out the form. I refused to let her touch the postcard which was handwritten with my post office box number telling her it was the only legal proof I had that I did not receive the form. She still was not impressed. I am still tempted to call our local newspaper with the story. I can't wait to move from this town!
I saw this tweet from the US Census folks and thought I'd pass this on here:
"Form lost/missing? 1) Wait until 4/12; you may get mailed another, 2) On 4/12, call 866-872-6868 and request replacement."
I wonder what time they get up in the morning.
From Amy Coffin comes this good news, the Census 2010 may have realized that thousands or tens of thousands of census forms that were addressed to those of us with post office boxes have been returned. My local post office delivered the reminder postcard and not the original form. The postmaster here did not think my concern was warranted until I told her it was a Federal crime not to fill out the form. I refused to let her touch the postcard which was handwritten with my post office box number telling her it was the only legal proof I had that I did not receive the form. She still was not impressed. I am still tempted to call our local newspaper with the story. I can't wait to move from this town!
I saw this tweet from the US Census folks and thought I'd pass this on here:
"Form lost/missing? 1) Wait until 4/12; you may get mailed another, 2) On 4/12, call 866-872-6868 and request replacement."
I wonder what time they get up in the morning.
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