When you go about putting together your family history and you take out all of the memoirs and photographs and any other memorabilia that belongs to your family, all of it together paints a pretty average portrait.
Until you start digging. That’s where the good stuff is. You will find out that your family isn’t exactly [...]
Entries from April 2008
April 23, 2008
The side of the family we don’t talk about
April 23, 2008
Miley Cyrus writes her memoirs…
Making the decision to write one’s memiors is sometimes a difficult one because some believe that they don’t want to write their memiors too early.
Apparently that’s not a problem for Miley Cyrus.
Hannah Montana herself is letting the world know of her experiences as a young girl in a forthcoming publication from Disney/Hyperion books. The press [...]
April 22, 2008
Photo Restoration Made Easy
Right now on familytimemachine.com, you can have an old photo restored via the internet – and the photo doesn’t have to leave your home.
All you need to do is follow these simple steps and we’ll restore the photo for you.
1. Scan the photo at 300 dpi resolution and save it with a name that has [...]
April 19, 2008
Alive before what???
Edna Parker will turn 115 years old on Sunday – she is the oldest living person alive on earth right now. We should all be so lucky. Parker was born in 1893 and is part of a demographic of people called “supercentarians” or people who live over the age of 110. The only negatives about [...]
April 17, 2008
The British side of 13 Days…
Remember the Kevin Costner film “13 Days” – the epic journey of 13 days in October of 1962 that was later termed the Cuban Missle Crisis? It’s a very good film if you’d like to check it out someday at your local video store or movie service.
One of the most critical times in the history [...]
April 12, 2008
The old icebreaker…
If your home caught on fire and you had enough time to run in and get one thing before the fire enveloped the home, what would it be?
If your answer is a two dimensional object – like a picture or a collection of pictures such as a baby book, wedding book, scrapbook or other memorabilia [...]
April 8, 2008
An Edsel….worth $1.76 million???
Edsel Ford, the lone son of automobile maker Henry Ford, had it right all along: an Edsel can sell.
At least one of them can.
The personal automobile of Edsel Ford, the 1934 Ford Model 40 Speedster concept car was found in a garage in Florida not too many years ago. It was then shipped to Tennessee [...]
April 6, 2008
Charlton Heston…
News outlets all over the world today rang out the news that one of Hollywood’s greatest actors has died. Charlton Heston was indeed a great actor and a very influencial person especially later in his political life with the NRA.
DId you catch all of those video editorials and eulogies to the man that played Moses, [...]
April 5, 2008
Tip Two – When interviewing your parents…
Today, many people celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. A civil rights pioneer, a man who questioned the world he lived in and a man who brought about change in the most dramatic of ways when he and several thousand Americans decended on the Lincoln Memorial for one of the most defining [...]
