Sunday, November 30, 2008

Puppies for Christmas!!!

Look at this cute face!!

For more pictures, visit "Free Puppies to a Good Home" Blog

These Wonderful Puppies Need a Good Home! There are 10! Please open up your heart and take one (two or three) of these little wonders into your home. They all need human families.

The mother is a Border Collie and the Father is a Golden Retriever mix. The mother is so sweet and respectful. She is incredibly smart. I, myself am so in love with all of them, I slightly resent this task of trying to help them find new homes. The Father is just as sweet. You could not have a nicer mix of puppies.
Please Contact:
Mel Fisher @ 915-261-6660

THANKSGIVING IN TUCSON ARIZONA AND NEWS OF FLOY

The Gregory-Fisher families got together in the Tucson Estates Recreation Hall. There were 33 who attended for a Thanksgiving feast. Among those who attended from 'out-of-town' were Garry & Sharon Fisher who brought Floy from California to the home of her sister Alice Gregory. Dick and Sharon Gregory, their daughter and son-in-law Sheila & Marty Harriman, their daughter Alyssa and Michelle Chang from Taiwan who is an exchange student spending the school year in the Harriman home – they all came up from the Houston Texas area.

Floy will stay here in Tucson with Alice until springtime – then she will go back to Haigler.

THANKS HAIGLER FOR SHARING FLOY WITH US FOR THE WINTER!

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Thankfulness

 
I am thankful that Creator
knows me and loves me.
I am thankful for friends and
family.
I am thankful for the
love that is given to me daily.
I am thankful for the beauty 
that surrounds me.
I am thankful for the ancestors
and the heritage given to me from them.
From each and everyone of them.
I am thankful for the roof overhead
and the food provided to us.
I am thankful for the warriors that
have fought in the many wars of our history.
For the sacrifice of the many
generations.
I pray for love and peace for our lives.
For family and the love they have for me..I
am Thankful.
For the love The Creator shows to me each day...
I am Thankful.

Happy Birthday Cal Freehling

Cal's Birthday is Saturday, November 29. We hope you have a wonderful day!

Happy Thanksgiving from the Harfords

This is what sunrise looked like about an hour ago (6:45 a.m.) 12 miles north of Haigler. We are eating dinner at Gail's this noon.

Happy Thanksgiving!

--Karen Harford

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Happy Thanksgiving

The pies are baked - cooled - sitting in their containers in the refrigerator waiting to go to dinner at Sandi's house. We will be feeding about 25 people (14 kids) and spending time visiting between cooking, washing dishes and keeping the kids happy and watching football over our shoulder as we go about the day.


I hope you all have a wonderful time with your families.


Hey! How about asking for some stories from the older generation if you get a chance. I love hearing about your parents and grandparents and what it was like "In the good old days"...


Happy Thanksgiving,
Sherri

Genealogy

As some of you know, one of my favorite things to do is search for information about my ancestors. I have been working on the genealogy of my family ever since my mother, Alice Gregory, told me, about 30 years ago, that we have English Royalty in our distant past. Since I always thought I was a "princess," I became interested in helping prove it!! So, I must tell you that we not only have English royalty, but also French and German kings in our "family". (the more I look, the more mixed I become)

The methods of searching has changed through the years; from spending time in the back rooms of courthouses & libraries and tromping through remote cemeteries to staying up away too late searching the internet. Of course, spending time in those previous places was part of the fun - searching the bottom drawers in the huge library in Salt Lake City was tedious - but like a treasure hunt!

Another change from "the beginning of this hobby - which became an obsession" - is from recording our finds on paper charts and family sheets to entering the data into the computer. Our first software (as it is now called - we didn't even know that, then) was PAF - created by the LDS church and loaded on a floppy disk. You had to have the disk in one slot and a "data disk" in the other one. All the new data was saved on the second disk. You had to know alot of "DOS" terms to make that work. This was before "mouses" were invented.

We were so excited when we figured out how to "share" our data by creating a GEDCOM file. Which is basically a database created with the same fields in the same order so you could export the data from one persons records and import it into another's.

Through the years, I have spent alot of money purchasing upgrades and disks and CDs with huge amounts of information on them - only to sort through and find that ONE piece of data that fit into our family. It seemed like every time I "found" something that looked like it would fit, I had to pay out more money to discover if it was the right piece of information. I joined Ancestry.com, which propelled my search to a new level. Their Family Tree program has elevated the record keeping to a professional height that we could not have imagined a few years ago.

We have spent hours searching through information from 'Listserve' members. And that has been a very useful tool because you meet other people who are searching for the same information you are. One person I met in the way had information about my Gregory side of the family that broke through a "years long" brick wall. (what we call coming to the end of your rope - or not being able to find someone's father, so you can't go on)

The next step was logical: Share what we have found with others via Family Trees uploaded to the internet. This has uncovered more people looking for the same information with a connection to information that may or may not be backed up with "fact".

A recent direction I have taken is helping build information for others who may be searching for their family history. Last month I volunteered to become the host of Genealogy Trails History Group for Dundy County. I did this mainly because I seem to have more information in my computer than I can find on the internet so I decided to find a way of sharing what I have collected. I am finding this to be interesting, exciting and time consuming!! And I have met more people who have sent things to be posted.

Like the story on Genealogy Trails about Albert H. Nordyke. As far as most of us knew, he was only a gravestone in the Haigler Cemetery whom no one knew where he came from or who he was. One day this week I got an email from his great-grandaughter's husband asking for a picture of his headstone. I knew that Bill Hardwick, from Benkelman, had spent the time to take a picture of EVERY headstone in EVERY cemetery in Dundy County, so we were able to send him one. However, we also asked him what information he had about Albert, who was a Civil War Veteran. He sent the story posted on Genealogy Trails. AND of course, I still wonder what he was doing in Haigler, along with his family. Was he working for the railroad? or helping build the Pioneer Canal? or working on one of the ranches as a "wagonmaster"... or Cowboy?

If you have read this far in this "long story" (which is actually short)... then you might understand why you haven't heard from me for the last couple of weeks. AND maybe this will prompt you to send stories and pictures about your family. I love hearing from you.

Just send me an email: haiglerblogger@gmail.com

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

November 20 is Alice Gregory's Birthday

 
Alice will be 94 years old tomorrow.  She lives in her own home and is planning to enjoy Floy's company this winter.  I'm sure they will have some great chats and do some fun things together.
Happy Birthday, Momma!!!
Love, Sherri

If anyone would like to email Alice, her email address is agregory92 at hotmail dot com

Monday, November 17, 2008

November Birthdays

Happy November Birthday to Haiglerites born this month.

Eunice Tucker - November 6
Alice Gregory - November 20
Rodney Hoover - November 27
Cal Freehling - November 29

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Where have I been?

I bet you have been wondering where I went! or Why I haven't posted any new stuff lately?? I volunteered to help build a genealogy site for Dundy County and have been busy posting information over there.

The site is Genealogy Trails History Group. It is a bunch of people working together to help keep genealogy data FREE and readily available for anyone who is searching for information on their ancestors.

I hope you will take a look and maybe even send me things that will fit in over there. Alot of the information I've been posting on the blog would fit in nicely, but it is a more formal site than this blog; where we can talk back and forth and you can send me anything about Haigler that you want posted.

Here on the blog WE get to decide what is appropriate... Over there: I will be fitting the information into THEIR idea, so it will be more informational stuff.

Don't give up on me... I'm still around.. and want to hear from you.

Sherri G.

Monday, November 10, 2008

Doretta Trembly Yost

We were saddened to hear that Doretta (Trembly) Yost passed away this last week. Our sympathy goes to her family.

Penny Jo (Parker) Cranston

Penny Jo Cranston, daugher of Ivan and Patricia Wheaton Parker, was born in Wray, Colorado, on October 19, 1959, and died on October 30, 2008, at the age of 49 years and 11 days.

Penny was baptized in Zion Luthern Church in Haigler, Nebraska and confirmed in Trenton, Nebraska.  She was a member of Ascension Luthern Church, Witchita, Kansas, at the time of her death.

Penny was united in marriage to Dean Cranston on October 19, 1985, in Trinity Luthern Church in Colby, Kansas, and lived in Colby 9 years before moving to Witchita, Kansas.

Penny served her Lord through her local congregation during her years through helping with Bible study in Colby and recently joined L. W. M. L. Tabitha Circle at Ascension.

Surviving to morn her death are her husband Dean, parents Ivan & Patricia Parker, and her brother Rocky.
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Haiglerites 90+

Haiglerites 70+

Haiglerites 1 - 69 (Some of these have moved past the 70 mark!)

  • Aaron Irwin - May 7th
  • Bernice (Smith) Douglass - February 15
  • CD Samler - January 19
  • Cal Freehling - November 29
  • Claudine (Wiley) Sterner - June 8, 1940
  • Dan Leinen - September 10
  • Dick Gregory - May 29, 1946
  • Elaine (Adams) Corkle - July 29
  • Eunice (Gregory) Richard - December 14, 1951
  • George Sharp - March 27
  • Glenda Smith - December 31
  • Janice Irwin - December 27th
  • Jerry R. Sampson - August 17
  • Joanie Henderson - January 2
  • Joann (Adams) Webster - March 5
  • Joie Brown - December 4
  • Joyce (Tucker) Lovenburg - Sep. 17
  • Karen (White) Lindell - June 13, 1946
  • Karen Harford - May 20
  • LaVern Smith - January 12
  • LaVeta (Smith) Blecha - January 12
  • LeNeta Carlock - May 7
  • LeeAnn Steinbeck January 30
  • Leone (Gregory) Carlson - January 27, 1943
  • Lloyd Douglass - March 18
  • Marlin Crouse - May 7
  • Mel Fisher - August 8, 1946
  • Paul Freehling - May 23
  • Sally Leinen - March 25
  • Sharna Richardson - January 15, 1959
  • Sherri Gregory - January 20, 1945
  • Stanley Carlock - December 12
  • Tim Steinbeck January 31

GOC Observers

  • Alice Gregory
  • Barbara (Dexter) Platon
  • Claudine (Wiley) Sterner
  • Dallas Adams
  • Dick Gregory
  • Don Harford
  • Evoi (Billy) Clark
  • Gail Harford
  • Gladys Freehling
  • Glen Childers
  • Hazel Daniels
  • Karen Harford
  • Leah (Gregory) Brewer
  • Leone (Gregory) Carlson
  • Lillian Mahon
  • Lillie White
  • Linda (Harford) Jones
  • Lloyd Douglass
  • Melba Harford
  • Myrna Oster
  • Posts about GOC
  • Ray Harford
  • Richard Gregory
  • Sam Clegg
  • Sherri Gregory
  • Veda Douglass
  • Virginia Harford

Flying Haiglerites

Haigler Twins

  • Haigler Twins
  • Laurene Rohn & Larry Crabtree
  • Marilyn and Gerrald Logan
  • Gail & Galena Roach
  • Kyle & Kaleb Greenwood
  • Ryan Jean & Lucas Walker Mildenberger
  • LuAnn Green Wall and LuRue Green Krutsinger
  • Edgar and Edna Williams - b. 1895
  • William & Stanley Palmer
  • Frank & Frances Tiff - (Shauer)
  • Fernando & Mahala Trembly - (McBride)
  • Donna and Dennis Workman
  • Marlene and Darlene Workman
  • Rodney and Ronney Workman
  • Rusty and Randy Flamig
  • Robert and Richard Ambrosek
  • Chase & Seth Barron (Grandsons of Delford Trembly)
  • Robert & Delbert Tucker (Alvie's)
  • Ali and Alvie Tucker
  • Albert and Elva Enfield
  • Natalie and Nicole Harford
  • Sharon & Shirley Williams
  • Lloyd and Floyd Smith
  • Jami and Joni Pevler
  • Stella and Zella (Altman) Wall
  • Janice & Julia Relph
  • Pearline and Pauline Freehling
  • Sharon Ruth and Sheila Louise Rose
  • LaVerne & Laveta Smith
  • LaVoine & LaVonne Smith
  • Elois & Elaine Adams
  • Dorothy & Donnie Brown
  • Carolyn and Marilyn Samson
  • Galena & Gail Collicott
  • Grand-daughters of Rae White
  • John "Keefe" and Kiara Grace Schorzman