Announcement: Winner of Flashback to the 60s Contest

Congratulations to Cindy Brennan, whose Memory of the 60s was selected at random as the winning submission for our Flashback to the 60s contest. Cindy wins a free registration to the 2015 Southern California Genealogy Jamboree. Congratulations!!!

Cindy Brennan
Top 10 List of why the 1960's are Forever Etched in my Memory

1. Measles, Mumps and Chicken Pox. We all had them as there were no vaccines. At least we didn't get polio since we were the first generation to take the vaccine on a sugar cube.

2. Sneaking out of my home while wearing these forbidden fashions: neon pink fishnet stockings, white Go-Go Boots and a miniskirt!

3. Meeting my lifelong best friend Leslie - while competing in the talent contest at the Butler County Fair. She won the grand prize, but I got a best friend for life.

4. Singing Beatles songs really loudly as I swung on my swing set. I was certain they could hear me in Liverpool!

5. Watching Neil Armstrong (who was from my Mom's hometown of Wapakoneta) walk on the Moon. It still gives me Goosebumps to this day!

6. The civil rights movement and the racial riots going on in the town next to me. We couldn't go to church a few times because of this. I didn't understand it then, but I sure do as an adult.

7. Christmas Eve, after church, at my Grandma and Grandpa B's - where we crammed 25 people into a 700 square foot space. Some of the best times of my life.

8. Living in Atlantic City, N.J. during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I remember my Mom and Dad staying up all night because they felt we were in jeopardy because of where we lived. Hiding under our desks in school to practice for Bomb Raids that fortunately never came.

9. Our silver aluminum Christmas tree with red ornaments. You don't find those in 2014!

10. Having both parents, all 4 Grandparents and 1 Great Grandparent alive during most of that decade. If only I had grasped the enormity of how precious that was at the time.

Jamboree Photo Contest Winners

As we mentioned in this blog in early April, 1000memories.com sponsored a photo contest for Jamboree. Photos were submitted for three categories:

• Pre-1900 Ancestor Photo
• Most Humorous Ancestor Photo
• Best-Dressed Ancestor Photo

 The winner in each category wins $220 worth of professional scanning provided by 1000memories and their business partner ScanCafe.
A total of 40 people participated in the event, including those who submitted and voted on 102 photos, which will be saved indefinitely in the Internet Archive. All photos can be viewed here.

The winning photos are shown below. It's easy to see why they are winners! Comments are as provided by the photo owner

Pre-1900 Ancestor Photo, submitted by Connie Wills. "Taken in 1862 in Strasbourg area, Alsace, France, before Dec. 1842 with The Bieth Family. Margaretha Bieth, standing behind her parents and brother and sister, was my great-great grandmother just before her marriage. This is a copy; the original was a Daguerrotype, a process which had just gone public in 1839."

Most Humorous Ancestor Photo was submitted by DeeDee, "Taken in the 1920s in Venice Beach with My Great Aunts Katherine, Jean, and Lillian. The 3 girls my great-aunts, are barely balancing on the pillar, they told the family that you can see that there were "sharks" in the water around them."

Best-Dressed Ancestor Photo, submitted by Katherine Zollman. "Taken in 1893 in Mt. Pulaski, Illinois with Franklin Benjamin Snyder."









Thanks to 1000memories for sponsoring this fun activity and for the contributors for submitting their family photos!

Congratulations to our Big Winners!

You may remember that Alice Fairhurst and her fantastic team of treasure hunters turned up over $17,000 worth of door prizes. Here are the names of the very luckiest of the many winners.

I'm going to talk to Paul Traynor and find out his secret to winning! What a lucky guy.

Our sincere thanks go out to all of the wonderful sponsors and door prize donors for this year. We couldn't have had such a successful event without their support.

Congratulations to all!


Grand Prize - Judy Freund
Ancestry Seekers Research Trip and Six Nights at the Salt Lake City Plaza Hotel

Donna Wilson
Seven Nights at the Salt Lake City Plaza Hotel and $200 for Expenses from SCGS

Madeline Yanov
Nine Course Online Genealogy Study from National Institute for Genealogical Studies
(University of Toronto)

Greg Gazda
Nine Course Online Genealogy Study from National Institute for Genealogical Studies
(University of Toronto)

Robyn Dowd
Nine Course Online Genealogy Study from National Institute for Genealogical Studies
(University of Toronto)

Paul Traynor
Seven Hours Research from Record Click

Carol Satterthwaite
Three Night Stay Crystal Inn, Salt Lake City

Paul Traynor
Two-night stay at Strawberry Creek Inn, Idyllwild, California

Marsha Barnet
Family Portrait Sitting by Harvey Branman, Photography as Art

Carrie L Rogers
Personal Genome Serv.& T-shirt from 23andMe.com

Wendy Fisher
1 Year World Explorer Membership from Ancestry

Laura Higby
1 Year World Explorer Membership from Ancestry

Lynn Rhodes
1 Year World Explorer Membership from Ancestry