[FRIAM] New Mexico Legacy

[Barry MacKichan]

In one of life’s surprises, one of our daughters sent us something she 
found through Google (but not ancestor.com), a document about 75 pages 
long, author currently unknown, that tells stories of my wife’s 
ancestors back to the late 18th century and ends with her grandparents 
and their siblings (so we have a chance of reconstructing who the author 
is). In those cases where its stories coincide with what my wife heard 
from her grandmother, it seems very accurate.

The document has been OCRed, and parts of it look like it was OCRed from 
handwritten copy. It is a challenge to figure out some of the words, but 
fortunately they are consistent and become a new vocabulary (almost all 
‘m’s become ‘!v’).

--Barry

On 25 Apr 2019, at 19:16, Pamela McCorduck wrote:

> Your kids, and especially your grandchildren, will so appreciate this 
> kind of memoir. Often, local historical societies welcome a copy too, 
> because the memoir is fine-grained enough to appeal to somebody doing 
> local history, even if it isn’t a big piece of national history.
>
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>> On Apr 25, 2019, at 12:20 PM, Jochen Fromm <jofr at cas-group.net> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> Today the book from Frank arrived, after I ordered it at Amazon 
>> recently, and I have read it in the evening. When I read the name 
>> "Kayser" of the grandparents I thought they must have a German 
>> background, since "Kaiser" is the German word for emperor. (One of my 
>> German colleagues is named Kaiser too). And a few pages later I read 
>> that they are indeed descendants of German immigrants. Fascinating. 
>> It was also interesting to read about the USS Baltimore. I like the 
>> idea of writing down the story of the own family to preserve it for 
>> future generations. The digital world is so short-lived and 
>> temporary.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jochen
>>
>>
>>
>>
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