Update etc

Just to let you and the internet gnats on the cyber space wall know.....this blog lives on. Yes much of the material has been dispersed, and nary a post since February, but I tell you the research does contine.

I have plans, waylaid by back issues last fall, to head back to the haunts and ghosts of Houseworth's past...Waldo and Millwood, Ohio. Fall is usually the best time for those trips...the colors are pretty nice about October 1st.

Back in March, my buddy Rick and I went to the Allen County Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana. This library has one of the top Genealogy resource centers in the US. Added to the fact that my Granddad and several of his brother and sisters lived, died, and are buried in Fort Wayne, make it a "must go" for me on occasion....the trip is about 60 miles each way from Celina, so once the weather turns wet and cooler, I will take another day, hook up with Pearson(who lives just north of FW), and spend another day digging up the family history that remains hidden from me so far.

In March I came up with a few items I thought were new, but they may be somewhere in the several thousand pages of information I have in desk and drawers.....putting all that stuff to computer just isn't in the cards.....I'm not inclined to do that much "computer sitting" to get the job done....sometimes the paper trail is best....at least that's what I tell myself.

I'll check back when I get some photos or other information that might be of interest to some or all.

back later>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>In the meantime I plan on posting historic photos from my and Houseworth's long gone....well at least historic photos to me. Look for new photos, documents, post cards, and letters at least once a week.

Today's collection are as follows.....(1) A drummer from the Ohio 26th OVI...the very same Civil War Regiment that Gilman Houseworth and his brother Henry served with.(2) Prokops Pups...my August 1968 Air Force Basic Sq, at Amarillo, AFB, Texas.(3) My first of many Soccer Coaching gigs....I had coached baseball since my post Air Force days, but the boys were interested in Soccer...so, that's me, top row left, Sam 2nd row, second from left, and Hal, front row 3rd from left, back in September 1990....the boys were 8 and 6 respectively.(4) A letter from Stan(my Dad) Houseworth to his sister Cecil from shortly after he arrived at Lowry Field in Denver for his Aircraft Mechanic training, in 1941, shortly before Pearl Harbor.