November is Natl' Gratitude Month!

HO slept 12 hrs?

I did! I couldn't believe that but sure did..When I awoke I had been dreaming, and I could not move when I opened my eyes...I was  paralysed...which is what your body does when you're dreaming so I've heard, it's to protect you from hurting yourself in your sleep.  When I was younger I used to sleep walk! I actually went outside, my mom heard the front door open and she went out to find me on the porch and she grabbed me and put me back in bed.  

I did enjoy my Halloween thriller, it was very well done for the year 1943...Im not a huge fan of computer generated monsters, I'd rather see make up and believable villains. 

Tonight Im trying to do some Ancestry research but Im getting nowhere...The best way to find a long ago baby daddy is to find a boy or girl who is about the same age or with a boy a little older who lived in the proximity to each other as back in say the early 20's the main way of transportation for farm kids was by foot!! 

I have found Census reports perfect for this as they went house to house so you can see who was living close by...tonight I thought I had found the family I was looking for but in the 10 year period of the most reproductive years the family had moved to AZ, and then onto California when the Father died at age 33 in 1913, the mother remarried.  So in researching that family I found out 3 of their sons ended up in San Quentin...One for Manslaughter, did 10 yrs, and then when he got out he was 36, he died at age 48 and his two brothers were in for Burglary and they all died very young...One of TB.  He was in prison for 3 yrs got out in 1929  got married, and died in 1932 and his 22 yr old wife also.  Tragic!! Their older brother was in Prison also maybe this is why they went to CA to visit their brother in jail and ended up there themselves.  

Well Im sort of glad they were not the family I was searching for...but I bet a cousin! So I have more to checkout.  My mom was pretty good about passing on old family history but she keep the family secrets pretty much buried we had to pull those out and she only provided enough for us to use as leads...we have traced our tree back 8 generations, my sister is the real historian in our family, but I sort of got her into using the web to do much of the leg work...she used to call libraries, and state records offices and it would take days to get anywhere...so now she used the web, Ancestry, Find a Grave, Family Search and Roots Web....just to name a few.  

Somehow the Mormons have taken control of our Histories tho...so now we have to pay them to see our records...They even have the prison records on there now!  I will be happy when some more Census records open up for sure.  

Well 2 days till all HELL breaks loose in the USA..I know Trump is going to try and use the courts to PUT him in office if the numbers are too to rig and too real to steal!  I think it's going to be a landslide I have never seen so many Black voters in line as I've seen on the TV news in our neighboring towns, my County is always RED YUKKK but many of the neighboring counties are NOT...I doubt this state would turn Blue...but we sure are trying. 

It is possible GA will turn Blue, and PA, and AZ.  That's another reason I'd like to move out of this county but I've been on this old place for almost 44 yrs...that's a lot of history to walk away from. I went to visit Mom's grave today...and I cried for only an hour this time...:o(

I know it makes no sense but I stand there and I talk to her tell her about my day what's going on in my mind and I remind her of just how much I still love her.  

In 11 days it will be one year, one long miserable year without her. 

I must remember to move my clocks back I didn't bother I did do the one in my van, but I have only one clock in the main area and one in my bedroom....that's it. Ive changed my post time to midnight...