Call Me a Dreamer

I managed to announce this on most of my social networking sites, but not here. I was asked to do a guest blog post for a genealogy wiki, called WikiTree, and my first post went live on Tuesday. You can find Pamela's Perspective (Their name! I never thought to name it, somehow.) on the WikiTree blog. This is my first guest post for someone else's blog, so I was thrilled to be asked to participate.

You might also have seen my occasional mentions of posts on Searching for Roots and Branches. Searching for Roots and Branches is my journal of genealogical discovery, where I explore various aspects of genealogy, anything from a photo of an ancestor or other relative, to a biographical sketch, to a detailed examination of my research and proof process. This evening, instead of getting work done, I posted about a a sudden nostalgia I was feeling in An Unusual Lullaby: The Whiffenpoof Song. My husband tells me it's a weird post, but "in a good way." Go figure.

While I'm posting about blogging, perhaps I should mention that I also blog on Red Poulaine's Musings. This is a joint blog which my husband and I write. Red Poulaine's Musings started shortly after we opened an Etsy store, Red Poulaine, where we sell vintage postcards and photographs. In our item listings, we include a lot of historical information about the people featured in the images, the photographers who took the pictures, and other historical tidbits and trivia related to the paper ephemera we sell. (My genealogy work sometimes comes in handy when we're researching the people associated with the images, allowing us to share information not easily found elsewhere.) Our shop had readers! So, we decided to create a blog and give people who don't visit our shop a chance to read some of the historical work we do. Although almost every image we sell has a story associated with it, we don't manage to post as often to our blog as we post pictures in the shop. We wish we could, but there's only so much two busy people can manage. Still, we hope that the stories and history we share on our blog is interesting and fun for our readers.

I keep meaning to share my posts on my genealogy blog (which, however irregular, has been my most active blog for quite some time now) to my Dreamwidth and LiveJournal blogs. Usually, I forget. Or, maybe that should be, I always forget. Right now, I can't remember if I've ever shared.

But, I remembered today. So, here goes.

Today's post over on Searching for Roots and Branches is Wishful Wednesday: I Wish I'd Met Grandpa Lloyd. There are lots of blogging prompts for genealogy bloggers, and sometimes I respond to them. This is one of those times. This post is a response to the Wishful Wednesday blogging prompt from Geneabloggers.

On three separate occasions, two of them this past weekend, I've heard snatches of the This American Life episode: "The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar" (warning: this program takes about an hour to hear), the story of a boy who was lost in 1912, may or may not have been kidnapped, and the three families whose members' lives were changed forever as a result.

This is one of the most fascinating programs I've heard, an amazing tale of loss, love, confusion, and family identity.