Maybe its the cloudy skies. I don't feel like doing much of anything. Well. Maybe that's not exactly true. I'd love to be working on some filing and genealogy - I have loads of old photos and am gathering as many facts as I can and weaving it into a story to put into an album. Did you know back in the day you could order an entire house from Sears Roebuck Catalog?? That was the beginning of the farm house on my maternal great grandparents side. I think they added on to it in later years.
I'm fascinated with old facts and histories, and have stumbled across strange information from time to time as I peruse old Census data. It's amazing what you can discover, even though the information jumps every 10 years. You can see how families change, move around, although back in those days, once you built up on a farm, most didn't move from place to place often! And maybe I've written it here before, but there's a mystery as to my maternal Great Grandmother. My great grandpa kept things to himself, and after many many years, I discovered I could order a copy of his marriage certificate. It's always been a mystery as to the real last name of his wife.
We've been told many things, but the marriage certificate says something altogether different from what we've been told! After more reading of historical data, in their town, little houses of prostitution were commonplace - afterall, farmers living on the outskirts by themselves.... well. *ahem* I suppose crazier things have happened. I found that in one of these places, a woman named Ida was in residence because a census was taken that year and listed each of the women. Was she the prim and proper type? Or the more relaxed, loose, smiling type?
Do you suppose...... ??? It makes me wonder, considering all the secrecy around her life and her background. Anything coulda happened!
Ahh history, fascinating stuff!
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