{"id":15626,"date":"2017-09-24T10:26:20","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T17:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2017\/09\/24\/15626.html"},"modified":"2023-08-13T23:41:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T06:41:46","slug":"more-great-family-history-mate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2017\/09\/24\/more-great-family-history-mate\/","title":{"rendered":"More great family-history material"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Last night, I had dinner with family, and audio-recorded some family stories, and received <em>two<\/em> amazing troves of family documents:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>My brother gave me a box of stuff that came originally from our father's parents (George & Helen). It includes letters that my brother and I wrote to G&H (at all ages, from too-young-to-write to post-college), letters that Marcy wrote to G&H, a story titled &#8220;Project Warlock&#8221; that I wrote (probably around 4th grade), some materials relating to Marcy's death, and 50+ old photos, most of which I had never seen before.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Our cousins gave us a box of stuff related to Marcy. It include's Marcy's father's military decorations (Marine paratrooper), and war ration books, and another 50+ old photos, most of which I had never seen before, including two amazing ones that are apparently from Marcy's parents' wedding, though I'm a little uncertain about that.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>And the best part of that second great collection of stuff is that our cousins gave us a couple of DVDs containing converted-from-film video of my mother and my brother from visits in the 1970s and 1980s.<\/p>\r\n<p>And one of those DVDs includes the very best thing of all:<\/p>\r\n<p>Video of my mother when she was a kid, taken during an Atlantic City beach trip, probably sometime in the early 1950s.<\/p>\r\n<p>I think this material is the only video footage we have of Marcy. It's a remarkable gift.<\/p>\r\n<p>I'll post some of the video at some point, but might take a while.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, I had dinner with family, and audio-recorded some family stories, and received two amazing troves of family documents:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-familyhistory"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20428,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15626\/revisions\/20428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}