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| My brother telling me to shut up |
It came to me over the weekend that I hadn't looked through the city directories at the library to try and find my parents. Plus, I would have all of our previous addresses. Why hadn't I thought of this before? Mom and Dad had a moving spree (mostly Dad wanting to move) early on in their marriage. One year, I found them in two city directories in different states. Several times they moved back and forth between Indiana and Tennessee.
My head was spinning just trying to find them in a directory somewhere. I still cannot find them from 1960-1963 and 1970-1971. I believe that they were living in a small city that may not have had a directory. I love the research, it is challenging, it is fulfilling...ah genealogy.
During spells of nostalgia I love to search on Google Earth for places that I lived while growing up. Some of the homes no longer exist, and one tiny village is overgrown with bushes and weeds. The first school I attended is no longer there nor the town, most of the homes were relocated with the help of the Federal Government after two floods within a month, and the old town was used as part of a movie that was filmed there and downtown was burned to the ground. Sad for me I would have loved to have gone back.
ReplyDeleteI went on Google Earth too,to look at the house that we used to live in. It faintly looks the way that I remember it. There is still the chain link fence and the staircase up to the second floor apartment, but everything else has changed. When I lived in Chattanooga, I looked and looked for the address, but didn't find it.
ReplyDeleteIt is sad that the whole town is gone where you grew up. I hope that you have lots of pictures from there.