Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Nov 19, 2009, 11:41 am
I leave for a couple of weeks and come home to find I have been presented with an award! What a wonderful surprise! I have received the Kreativ Blogger Award not once, but twice while I was away! I wi...
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Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Nov 18, 2009, 1:59 pm
Heredia, Costa Rica, November 2009. Digital Image. Held by Cheryl California. 2009
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Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Oct 30, 2009, 8:18 pm
Have to tell you, things have been crazy busy this week! Hoped to get some posts done, but that didn't happen. Anyway, I will be leaving in less than two hours to Costa Rica. I am so ready for thi...
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Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Oct 26, 2009, 11:30 pm
Father and Mother Fleming. Don't you just love it? I know who this memorial belongs to though, Thomas and Elizabeth (Downey) Fleming. They were my gggrandparents. Thomas was born in Kilkenny, Ire...
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Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Oct 23, 2009, 1:39 pm
Today my mother, Annette Neva Harding would have celebrated her 73rd birthday had she been alive. She was born October 23, 1936, in Oakland, Alameda, California. She wasn't very happy about many o...
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Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Oct 22, 2009, 4:00 pm
This is a scan of a postcard. I found it on E-bay a couple of years ago. I was searching for something, or maybe nothing, when I ran across this item. I knew I would be bidding. The postcard is of Oa...
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Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Oct 21, 2009, 2:48 pm
Harry John Harding. May 3, 1893-Nov. 9, 1967. Scanned image. Held by Cheryl California. 2009
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Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Oct 16, 2009, 7:20 am
Mary C. Fleming was born to Thomas and Elizabeth (Downey) Fleming about 1857 in Bruce County, Ontario, Canada. Thomas was a native of Kilkenny, Ireland, while Elizabeth was born in Canada. Mary C. Fl...
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Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Oct 15, 2009, 6:00 am
This place, Bucca de Beppo, is an Italian style restaurant that my family went to for my father's retirement in April 2002. The one we dined in was in Sacramento. There are several of these restau...
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Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Oct 14, 2009, 11:51 am
Hazel McGuire and Lois Helman. Scanned copy. Original held by Richard Larry Fleming. Thanks for stopping by! Wishing you success in all of your genealogical treasure hunts!
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Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Oct 14, 2009, 12:12 am
... this book together and published it. I am ready to read this one again, to remind me more vividly what these families went through, very good book. Finally, which earthquakes, tornadoes, hurrica...
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Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Oct 11, 2009, 7:22 pm
Event -Blog Your Genealogy: hosted by the California Genealogical Society. October 10, 2009. Oakland, California. Digital image taken by Tim Cox. Photo held by Cheryl Palmer California. 2009. The Cal...
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Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Oct 10, 2009, 12:45 am
The Family Curator, Denise Levenick has created a new "project." As with everything Denise ventures into, this is as impressive as all others! Talent! I was going to tell you that you can download a c...
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Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Oct 10, 2009, 12:03 am
Tomorrow is the day! I am really looking forward to this special genealogy blog workshop which The California Genealogical Society is presenting. Guest speakers and program: Thomas MacEntee 1:00 -...
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Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Oct 9, 2009, 6:21 am
(Remember to vote - as many times as you'd like - for your favorite blogs by Nov. 5th, here-there is also a wonderful explanation of the catagories) Some time ago I met one of my mother's cou...
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Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Oct 9, 2009, 12:19 am
Many thanks to Vickie at "Be Not Forgot" for making this wonderful "Nomination Wordle Cloud" that she is sharing with all of the nominees. Awesome job Vickie! Time and talent...I need more of this! Th...
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Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Oct 8, 2009, 7:34 am
When I first got acquainted (as an adult) with a first cousin of my mother's a few years ago, I remember some of the stories this cousin told me. One was of the church back where the Harding famil...
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Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Oct 7, 2009, 10:36 am

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Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Oct 6, 2009, 9:07 pm
This headstone is that of my father in law. I never had the opportunity to meet him. I have been told he was a very great man. From many of the stories I have heard, I KNOW he was a very great man. I ...
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Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Oct 5, 2009, 9:44 pm
What a surprise when I read Family Tree Magazines nominees for the top 40 genealogy blogs! There are at least 600 genealogy related blogs, yet Heritage Happens made it as a nominee! My blog is listed ...
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Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Sep 16, 2009, 11:13 am
Jennifer and Anthony Lagorio. San Leandro, California. December 18, 1983. Scanned image. Held by Cheryl California. 2009. Thanks for stopping by! Wishing you success in all of your genealogical trea...
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Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Sep 14, 2009, 1:57 am
What great fun Sheri Finley has started! Randy Seaver added to the fun by making this a "Saturday Night Fun" item. I am a bit late for Saturday night fun, so I am doing this for Sunday night fun! Here...
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Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Sep 10, 2009, 4:39 pm
Family Tree Magazine is asking you to vote on your favorite Genealogy Blogs! Questions have risen regarding the voting procedure. Over at footnoteMaven's blog, you can read the questions she propo...
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Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Sep 10, 2009, 10:16 am
This is where I went to middle school, Bohannon Middle School in San Lorenzo, California. One of the neighbor friends and I walked to school together. I remember it seemed so far away back then. Looki...
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Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Sep 9, 2009, 11:09 am
Thanks for stopping by! Wishing you success in all of your genealogical treasure hunts!
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Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Sep 7, 2009, 6:49 pm
It is the end of summer and I am wondering why I am so busy all of a sudden? I was concerned about being so busy during summer, but lately, wow! Time...there isn't enough....there isn't enough...
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Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Sep 3, 2009, 3:53 pm
This is a scanned photo of the ship my father lived on while he was in the Navy. I know this is a "place" he will never forget! He was injured while in the Navy and spent nine months in hospitals. He ...
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Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Sep 1, 2009, 11:57 pm
A week has just blown past me and I have no idea how that even happened. We have had some hot weather this week, which always tends to wipe me out. I have been rather busy with my normal routine but t...
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Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Aug 26, 2009, 8:09 pm
The "newest family member" who has made contact with me is T. She surprised me with a phone call last week! We are both very ecstatic to have found one another. T actually would be a second cousin to...
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Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Aug 26, 2009, 2:28 am
National Archives Pacific Region in San Francisco, California. May 22, 2009. Digital image. Held by Cheryl California. 2009 Thanks for stopping by! Wishing you success in all of your genealogical tr...
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Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Aug 25, 2009, 2:05 am
Happy Blogiversary to me! Today marks one full year since I started this blog. To think I was worried I wouldn't have enough to write about for a few months let alone a year. I have to say that ...
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Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Aug 23, 2009, 7:58 pm
Have you heard of this backup system, CloudBerry? Nadya, one of my readers, left me a message on my previous post letting me know that CloudBerry Explorer Pro Online Backup was in beta testing right n...
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Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Aug 22, 2009, 12:58 am
Do you have pictures burned to CD's for backup purposes? I do. I have several of them. At least I thought I had CD backups...but more on that as this post continues. I decided it was well past tim...
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Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Aug 20, 2009, 11:57 am
Thank you to Thomas MacEntee for posting directions and information on the GeneaBloggers site about the contact button you see to the left. In the past week or two there have been a couple of people w...
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Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Aug 20, 2009, 10:44 am
One of the most difficult pictures I was trying to get was when I lived in San Leandro with my ex-in laws. Initially I thought I knew where to find this house but I drove the area over and over and ke...
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Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Aug 19, 2009, 11:06 am
Grandparents Headstone. August 14, 2009. Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, California. Digital Image. Held by Cheryl California. 2009 Thanks for stopping by! Wishing you success in all of your geneal...
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Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Aug 18, 2009, 11:32 am
Lois Helman was born in Yale, Payne, Oklahoma, and her final resting place is in Yale, Payne, Oklahoma. She was born "Lois Marie McGuire" on her grandparents farm. Had she been alive today, August 6 w...
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Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Aug 17, 2009, 9:55 am
Have you checked out the Fujitsu scanners ... one of the scanners can scan 200 pages into a computer in ONE minute! Amazing ... Here is another new smaller, incredible scanner, it does both sides ...
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Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Aug 16, 2009, 8:00 am
Over the past few months some of my friends on Facebook have made comments, either in front of or to my husband, that they know what I am doing all of the time, because I post often on Facebook. How m...
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Cheryl P. posted an article on Heritage Happens - Aug 15, 2009, 8:03 am
It has been a week since I visited Mountain View Cemetery. If you read my post following that visit, you will remember that I found upon returning home from the cemetery, that my camera was missing. W...
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