tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24066635.post2335598070677472406..comments2024-02-29T06:03:35.483-05:00Comments on Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections: Tools of the TradeJDRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06471656063812824731noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24066635.post-54414427067524335232016-03-26T23:00:55.517-04:002016-03-26T23:00:55.517-04:00One of my great-grandfathers and several of his so...One of my great-grandfathers and several of his sons were tailors. I have in my sewing tools now a couple of their thimbles and a bone folder with one of the great-uncles' initials carved into it.Jeannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24066635.post-24284775443729342202016-03-26T11:46:52.631-04:002016-03-26T11:46:52.631-04:00I saw your image and thought "that's a re...I saw your image and thought "that's a really extensive but strange looking family tree."<br /><br />A slide rule was my constant companion from 8th grade through college, when I learned to program in FORTRAN. Then we got a scientific calculator in 1970 or so and the slide rule sits in my desk drawer hidden from prying eyes, a treasure to be found by the daughter who cleans out my Randy Seaverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17477703429102065294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24066635.post-32136568106393440272016-03-26T11:04:22.883-04:002016-03-26T11:04:22.883-04:00I have two coffin plates from a great grandfather&...I have two coffin plates from a great grandfather's coffin --one a Rest In Peace manufactured one, quite slick, and the other, bounded by black velvet or fine cloth, more crudely done in that is gives his name 'James Geddes' in fine script, 'died' in less great script, then age, in a rather more pedestrian hand, with age and date, and then quite crudely 'drowned'. It Gail Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03786397886314480515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24066635.post-89588281568471991762016-03-26T08:46:56.067-04:002016-03-26T08:46:56.067-04:00My uncle was in the US Merchant Marine during Worl...My uncle was in the US Merchant Marine during World War II. I have his US Navy Cookbook, published 1942 - it would come in handy the next time I need to prepare beans or some other "gourmet" dish for 500!<br />I think likely he acquired it AFTER his ship was sunk off of Brisbane, Australia. As a child, hearing him talk of "losing my ship", I wondered how one could lose Nancy in Kingstonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16674874811723495287noreply@blogger.com