The Electric Slide!
This was a fabulous find that my father included in a slideshow he created for my grandmother’s funeral. I don’t remember ever seeing it but it’s from my oldest cousin’s wedding reception in January of 2007.
Happy hunting,
Jess
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February 6, 2013
Not Quite Wordless Wednesday
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January 30, 2013
Not Quite Wordless Wednesday
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We’ll miss you, Grandma!
Elnora (York) Trotter, 1926-2013
Mother, Grandmother, Great-Grandmother
Enjoy the time you have and ask questions while you can!
Jess
January 26, 2013
Snow Days: The Blizzard of 1978
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Today is the 35th anniversary of the Blizzard of 1978 which evidently I got to see. It dumped 19.3 inches of snow on Lansing, Michigan in two days after the region had already been hit by snow earlier in the week. The end result looked like this on our block.
Happy hunting,
Jess
January 23, 2013
Not Quite Wordless Wednesday
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The weather has been on my mind this week so bear with me… I believe this is my 2nd Great Aunt Grace (Packer) Elliott near her home in Grand Rapids, MI. This is one of the happiest expressions I’ve seen on her in the photographs Gran and Aunt June have… but her family seems to have been hell-bent on putting huge bows in her hair. She was my Great Grandmother Cora’s youngest sibling.
Happy hunting,
Jess
January 22, 2013
Tombstone Tuesday
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This is the headstone of Thomas William Horton Packer and his wives Mary Garbutt and Isobel Black. Thomas was the brother of my 2nd Great Grandfather, Cornelius and the 2nd son of Joseph of and Harriett (Vaughan) Packer. He was born in Gillingham, Kent, England in 1851 and named for one of Joseph’s older brothers. The family then moved 8 miles east to Sittingbourne.
When the family immigrated to Canada around 1870 he was already almost 20 and was only listed on the 1871 Census in Canada with his family in Hamilton, Ontario. Not too long after that the family moved to Woodstock, Ontario where on 01 December 1875 Thomas married Mary Garbutt, the 4th daughter of William and Martha (Ward) Garbutt.
On the 1881 Census Thomas reported working as a Sawyer and 1891 he was a Glass fitter and Mary’s nephew, William Rennick, was living with the couple and working as a photographer. In 1914 Mary died of Bright Disease.
In the summer of 1916 Thomas married Isobel Black, the daughter of John and Charlotte (Roberts) Black. Thomas died right around the new year of 1835-1836—a newspaper dated 31 Dec 1935 noted his death but the headstone reads 1936.
All three are buried at Hillview Cemetery on 5th Street, on the southeast side of Woodstock, Ontario.
Happy hunting,
Jess
January 18, 2013
Today is the 66th anniversary of my grandparents wedding. On January 18, 1947 they married at the home of my Great Aunt Rachel (York) Elliot in Palestine Township, Bradley Co., Arkansas.
This is a shot of their 25th Anniversary party at their home in Detroit, Michigan. They were married 41 years and raised 8 children before Grandpa died in 1988.
Happy hunting,
Jessica
January 16, 2013
Not Quite Wordless Wednesday
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I’ve been a bit bogged down with deadlines and the creeping ick that seems to be common this time of year… but I didn’t want to miss Wordless Wednesday. And Grandma Trotter has been on my mind lately.
These are my grandparents Elnora (York) and Levie Trotter enjoying the swings at a Trotter-Johnson picnic outside of Potter Park Zoo in Lansing, Michigan in 1980 or 1981. It’s a bit fuzzy but it brings back fond memories.
Happy hunting,
Jessica
January 9, 2013
Not Quite Wordless Wednesday
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I was going through pictures again and these two struck me as an interesting pair. The first is my mother and the second is me. I had more hair and teeth… and yes, I am rocking Oscar the Grouch on my dress. But, yeah, we’re related.
Happy Hunting,
Jess
January 2, 2013
Not Quite Wordless Wednesday
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I’ve been scrounging through photos lately and I keep coming back to this set. I don’t know who everyone in the pictures is but these were taken around my Great Aunt Rachel (York) Elliot’s funeral in 1971 and the majority of the men are York brothers and in-laws.
Can any Yorks/Trotters or other Bradley County folk recognize any of my unknowns? Or, for that matter, correct our identifications?
Happy hunting,
Jess
Between Dad & I, we think we have identified…
Picture 1 (L to R): Oscar York, Levie Trotter, Arverse York, Preston York, UNKNOWN, and 
Herman York
Picture 2 (L to R): Arverse York, Preston York, UNKNOWN, Herman York, Ernest York, UNKNOWN, and UNKNOWN
Picture 3 (L to R): Herman York, Ernest York, UNKNOWN, UNKNOWN, and UNKNOWN
December 26, 2012
Not Quite Wordless Wednesday
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Their first Christmas. These were the firstborn grandchildren for their generation. That’s Mom on the right and her cousin Susie on the left. This is taken in Kent County, MI, circa 1952.
Happy hunting and happy holidays,
Jess
Genie Road Trip 