In my email messages this morning, an inquiry about possible family relationship. So I searched my Ancestry datbase and I didn’t have her relative. Almost two-thousand individuals with the Frantz surname (in my database) but I didn’t have Otto Adolf Frantz (1859-1945). So I started searching for his family and here I am seven hours later still in my pajamas (and no breakfast or lunch). It is a pleasant eighty degrees outdoors and indoors. I should be outdoors tackling projects!! I found Otto and documented his family. He/they are from a different “tree” but I am always eager to document everyone with the Frantz surname.

Searching for, and documenting individuals takes a lot of time.

The NBC Today show told the viewers details about the weather in southern California. It was a pleasant surprise to hear the name “Lancaster.” The TV weather report said “snow” but this Internet report lists the cold temperature. An expanded search produced this story, A White Thanksgiving in the High Desert and Palmdale sees rare amount of snow…. In bygone years, I experienced an occasional snow when I lived in the Antelope Valley.

Give Thanks

Not an original message. Duplicated here because (IMHO) well worth sharing. Unfortunately, the link to the original message no longer available.

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Dear Follower of my blog,

Praise the Lord! Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, for His steadfast love endures forever! Psalm 106:1

After George Washington authorized the first Thanksgiving Day in 1789, 74 years passed without another such day of thanks. Then, Abraham Lincoln established the holiday as an annual event in America. His Thanksgiving Proclamation is worth reading again today:

It is the duty of nations as well as of men to owe their dependence upon the overruling power of God; to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scripture and proven by all history, that those nations are blessed whose God is the Lord.

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

It has seemed to me fit and proper that God should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November as a day of Thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens.

President Lincoln authorized our annual Thanksgiving Day in 1863 – in the midst of the Civil War.

Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 1 Thessalonians 5:18

May we all remember during this season of Thanksgiving to express gratitude for all of His many blessings.

Giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Ephesians 5:20

Have a Blessed Thanksgiving!

Gratefully, at the urging of a friend, I went to the Thanksgiving dinner in the RV Park. Although I had signed up, on second thought, I didn’t plan to attend.

I have always heard if the Scripture mentions something once then we better pay attention, but if it mentions it twice then we better take heed. Scripture for your family to refer to during this Thanksgiving holiday:

Wednesday – “Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,” Ephesians 5:20 KJV.

Thursday – “O give thanks unto the Lord; for He is good; for His mercy endureth forever,” 1 Chronicles 16:34 KJV.

Friday – “In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you,” 1 Thessalonians 5:18 KJV.

Saturday – “Praise ye the Lord. O give thanks unto the Lord; for He is good: for His mercy endureth forever,” Psalm 106:1 KJV.

Sunday – “Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise: be thankful unto Him, and bless His name. For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting; and His truth endureth to all generations,” Psalm 100:4-5 KJV.

Have a Blessed Thanksgiving!

So well stated, I copied from an email message from Monica Cole of One Million Moms.

Yes, this old lady is “woebegone.”  She would prefer that woe be gone. Yesterday, without obvious reason, I was involuntarily crying while sleep-deprived and sitting in my easy chair. I didn’t even want to watch TV; I lack the desire to “climb the family tree.”  To ignore Ancestry.com is very, very unusual.

Reminder: This is my “journal.”  It’s important (to me) to document my day-to-day experiences. One year ago. Two years ago. Three years ago. Four years ago (long before I was evicted from the CARE Center). Sixty-seven years ago today, I married a man who later deserted the family and left me to raise three little boys alone. As I said in an earlier blog message “Not a ‘pity party’–just retrospect.”