I have now scanned over 7000 of my dad's (Stanley Muller) slides from roughly 372 rolls of film. I believe I am done scanning his slides. When I started this project, I didn't know how many there were, but I guessed around 4000.
Along the way, I've had fun discovering lots of stuff I remember from my childhood, as well as a large number of slides, both old and "recent" that I had never seen before at all.
Probably the most pleasant surprise of my entire scanning experience: I found a set of slides that I had given up for lost. The subject was a 1959 automobile ferryboat trip from San Francisco to Oakland and back. I remember this trip, when I was 4, and I remember seeing slides from this trip when I was a very young child in the early 60s during slide shows that my dad would put on periodically.
Other jewels I have uncovered in recent days: A set of pictures from a trip my family made to Fairyland in Oakland in 1958. I was 3. I have pictures of me meeting Skipper Sedley and King Fuddle. Skipper Sedley had a TV show on KRON channel 4 in the Bay Area that I used to watch.
I am going to be scanning around 100 or so slides of the work portfolio of my dad's long-time employer, Cornelius Sampson. He inherited these slides when Sampson died. He didn't know what to do them, other than preserve them, and both he and Sampson's wife couldn't bear to throw them away.
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Monday, November 3, 2008
Friday, October 3, 2008
What's here and what's coming
The framework and part of the repository for my genealogy research is the GEDCOM database maintained on Rootsweb.
Living people have been removed to protect privacy.
In addition to the GEDCOM data, there is a relatively small amount of textual information, including evidence from various censuses to support the basic facts, a few obituaries and wedding announcements.
Not included in the database, and generally not anywhere on the Internet at the moment are:
Living people have been removed to protect privacy.
In addition to the GEDCOM data, there is a relatively small amount of textual information, including evidence from various censuses to support the basic facts, a few obituaries and wedding announcements.
Not included in the database, and generally not anywhere on the Internet at the moment are:
- Biographical sketches
- I've written one of Marcus M. Thompson, and posted it here. I have a dozen or so others in mind. These are meant to provide a minimal narrative of the basic facts of a person's life, to suggest research opportunities and provide an overview, and in Thompson's case, to attempt to correct somewhat misleading family stories.
- Letters
- I have a few letters. A transcription of one is posted here. Others are images only. My goal is to eventually post images and transcriptions of all of them.
- Audio
- My dad conducted audio interviews with several people. Eventually, both audio files and transcripts will be posted. Also, my grandfather recorded several events on wax 78s in the 1930s. There are also some other audio files, made by others.
- Video
- My grandfather also made some home movies -- in the 1920s, '30s and '40s. This is currently all on 16mm film. (He had some of it converted from early 9mm to 16mm!)
- Photographs
- My dad (Stanley Muller) took thousands of photographs (primarily 35mm b/w and color film) over 75 years, in all environments of lots of people and landscapes. He's upgraded to digital now, with my support. I have scanned most of them, but have a few more thousand to go. One of my goals is to organize them and put them on the Internet somewhere.
Monday, January 15, 2007
The Writings of Edith Gaylord Muller
In the late 1980s through the early 2000s , my mother, Edith Gaylord Muller (1919-2003) wrote a series of articles for various purposes, including publishing reminiscences in the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner, and creating a book for my daughter Halina. She took a writing class at the college of Marin to improve her skills and marketability.
She published one copy of the book for Halina in two installments, in 1995 and 1996. More installments were clearly intended. but never gathered together with the line art she did to illustrate the book. It is obvious to me that the memory problems which plagued her later in her life (from 1997 onward) were already at work, affecting the second installment in 1996.
As far as I know, most of the articles are factual reporting of events and people that she remembered. There are several poems, at least one of which is through her own eyes as a child. I have not found any fiction.
I believe that most, if not all, of the articles were written on several personal computers. The earliest was probably a CPM machine running WordStar, which my dad had gotten from his sister June Bogard. Later my mom migrated (with the assistance of my father Stanley) to Windows 3.1 (still using WordStar) and finally Windows 98 (now using MS Word).
In January, 2007, I decided to look for these files on the long unused computer. I found them, and to my surprise, there were many more than I expected, and almost all of them have answered genealogical and historical questions that I have been regretting not askin
g my mom before she died.
I have since copied the files to multiple, more modern computers, and have worked to convert them from WordStar format into MS Word. It's not hard, just tedious.
It was my desire to publish them immediately, so I began this blog to do so.
It was not until after she died that I began to grasp how talented my mother was. I just took it for granted.
This is for you, mom, and thanks for answering some questions that I didn't possess the wit to ask you when you were alive.
She published one copy of the book for Halina in two installments, in 1995 and 1996. More installments were clearly intended. but never gathered together with the line art she did to illustrate the book. It is obvious to me that the memory problems which plagued her later in her life (from 1997 onward) were already at work, affecting the second installment in 1996.As far as I know, most of the articles are factual reporting of events and people that she remembered. There are several poems, at least one of which is through her own eyes as a child. I have not found any fiction.
I believe that most, if not all, of the articles were written on several personal computers. The earliest was probably a CPM machine running WordStar, which my dad had gotten from his sister June Bogard. Later my mom migrated (with the assistance of my father Stanley) to Windows 3.1 (still using WordStar) and finally Windows 98 (now using MS Word).
In January, 2007, I decided to look for these files on the long unused computer. I found them, and to my surprise, there were many more than I expected, and almost all of them have answered genealogical and historical questions that I have been regretting not askin
g my mom before she died.I have since copied the files to multiple, more modern computers, and have worked to convert them from WordStar format into MS Word. It's not hard, just tedious.
It was my desire to publish them immediately, so I began this blog to do so.
It was not until after she died that I began to grasp how talented my mother was. I just took it for granted.
This is for you, mom, and thanks for answering some questions that I didn't possess the wit to ask you when you were alive.
Welcome to the Gaylord Tree
This blog focuses on various family names I am researching, including
(Living people have been removed from this database to protect their privacy.)
The name of this blog comes from a tree that lived in the yard of the house on Spring Mountain Road in St. Helena, California. My mother, Edith (Gaylord) Muller (1919-2003), an artist and teacher, spent much of her youth growing up on this property, and eventually made an illustration of this tree, which was widely used in various projects she undertook.
I took this version from a book that she made for my daughter Halina in 1995.
Permission is granted to use anything on this blog for private purposes. For re-publishing of any kind, please contact me.
I wish to thank and acknowledge my mother for writing the invaluable stories that provided the initial stimulus for this blog. I am grateful to my father, Stanley Muller, for providing me all the information about his German and Chilean ancestors, and for preserving the heritage handed down to him by his parents, and for providing the infrastructure which enabled my mother easily and conveniently to do her writing.
I also wish to thank and acknowledge William L. Gaylord, brother of my mother, for the vast amount of information and documents he has provided me, and for his support, help, encouragement, humor, ideas, suggestions, grace, patience and endurance under the non-stop barrage of my questions about the Gaylord family.
On the Joy side, I am most grateful to Marion Joy (Morgan) (Woodward) Mangahas (1914-2003) for all her genealogical research and family contacts she maintained over many years on the Joy family and to Dorothea (Davis) Harrington for organizing it and sending much of it to me after Marion's passing.
Randy Muller, January 15, 2007
randygmuller@gmail.com
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~randygmuller
- Adam Dulski (b. 1860 in Poland, d. MA, USA)
- Horace D Gaylord (1801-1877; CT)
- Christian Olaf Jonstad (b. 1849 Sunnfjord, Norway)
- William H. Joy (1819-1876; NY-IA)
- Georg Muller (1860-1957; Russia-CA)
- John Hunt Painter (1819-1891; OH-CA)
- Rosario Sisterna (1817-1885; Chile-CA)
- Jacob Vaughan (1803-1890; MA)
(Living people have been removed from this database to protect their privacy.)
The name of this blog comes from a tree that lived in the yard of the house on Spring Mountain Road in St. Helena, California. My mother, Edith (Gaylord) Muller (1919-2003), an artist and teacher, spent much of her youth growing up on this property, and eventually made an illustration of this tree, which was widely used in various projects she undertook.I took this version from a book that she made for my daughter Halina in 1995.
Permission is granted to use anything on this blog for private purposes. For re-publishing of any kind, please contact me.
I wish to thank and acknowledge my mother for writing the invaluable stories that provided the initial stimulus for this blog. I am grateful to my father, Stanley Muller, for providing me all the information about his German and Chilean ancestors, and for preserving the heritage handed down to him by his parents, and for providing the infrastructure which enabled my mother easily and conveniently to do her writing.
I also wish to thank and acknowledge William L. Gaylord, brother of my mother, for the vast amount of information and documents he has provided me, and for his support, help, encouragement, humor, ideas, suggestions, grace, patience and endurance under the non-stop barrage of my questions about the Gaylord family.
On the Joy side, I am most grateful to Marion Joy (Morgan) (Woodward) Mangahas (1914-2003) for all her genealogical research and family contacts she maintained over many years on the Joy family and to Dorothea (Davis) Harrington for organizing it and sending much of it to me after Marion's passing.
Randy Muller, January 15, 2007
randygmuller@gmail.com
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~randygmuller
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