Chuckles - Geneabloggers Sentimental Sunday

 5 Chuckles, 5 Flavors, 5 Cents

I don't remember when he would do it, but on a regular basis my dad would buy a package of "Chuckles" candy and bring it home as a special treat.  We each had our own color.  Mine was red (cherry) and my brother Tom had black (licorice).  Paul, Suzy, and Michael  were orange, green, and yellow.  I'm not sure who had which color.  We each got our chuckle and that was that.  The custom probably ended around 1952 when Mary was old enough to want one too.  They only came in packages of 5!  The slogan I remember was "5 Chuckles, 5 Flavors, 5 Cents".

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Wordle Cloud Picture

Randy Seaver's challenge this week is to find something you have written and past the text into wordle.com to create a word cloud.  Then post a screen print on facebook, a blog post or on google+.  My attempts at a screen print did not work at all so I used my cell phone camera and uploaded these.

I used the words from yesterday's blog to create this wordle.

For this wordle I used the surnames from a 6 generation ancestry chart.

Soon I will be able to take a good screen shot.  I hope!

Making Genealogy Memories

I haven't been blogging often for the past month or so because I have been participating in the genealogy of the future.  By being part of my grandchildren's lives and activities, I am helping to create the memories I hope they will record in the future.

When they remember the years that they were in band contest, I want them to remember I was there helping whether by providing moral support or by working in the hospitality room serving lunch to the contest judges.
They will hopefully remember that I was there for Scouting events and as they received their sacraments.

I also want to be an example of volunteerism continuing the legacy of volunteering in our families.  There are many ways to serve the community we live in and I want them to follow in the footsteps of their ancestors.

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Latin / Norwegian Sayings

It's Saturday Night - time for some Genealogy Fun!!!

by Randy Seaver
Your mission, should you decide to accept it 

(come on, it's easy this week, and you'll laugh) is to:

1)  Find some of your favorite sayings, aphorisms,

 jokes, etc. They can be genealogy-related, or not.

2)  Translate them into Latin using Google Translate 

(http://translate.google.com/?hl=en&tab=wT).

3)  Share them with us in your own blog post, in a

 comment to this post, or  in a Facebook status line 

or Google Plus Stream post (impress your non-genealogy

 friends with your Latin skills!).

4)  Of course, you could translate the Latin you read 

back (on my blog, or the blogs of others) into English 

(or your native language) using Google Translate too

 to see who was really funny, or mean, or romantic  

If you want to be really fancy, you could translate your 

sayings into any other language that uses Google Translate

 and really confuse all of us.  

I decided to take Randy's sayings and translate them into
Norwegian and back to English.


Venit mi, ut i tibi mea genealogia spelunca
     Han kom til meg, som jeg registrert med dere min hule
            He came to me, as I registered with you my cave


Ostende mihi si tibi ostendam tibi ahnentafel
      Vis meg, hvis du vil vise deg Generasjonsliste
         Show me, if you will show you the ahnentafel


 Genealogia est non amat, suus an nimiam
       Slekten er ikke kjærlighet, det er en overdreven
          The genealogy is not love, it's an excessive


Communio domus mea tergo insignia - quod rectum
      Nattverd på baksiden av huset mitt - hva er rett
            Communion on the back of my house - what is right


Ego non adhæsit, sum antecessor provocatus
      Jeg ble ikke sittende fast, utfordret jeg forgjengeren
            I was not stuck, I challenged the predecessor


I am not sure how accurate the Norwegian translations are, 
but the English appears to leave something to be desired.
I think the first one might refer to Randy's genea-cave.  Thanks 
for the fun Randy.