11 August 2006

Liberty!

A photo journal of Sue and my trip to Liberty State Park last Saturday...



Sue in the old train station at the Park, where immigrants from Ellis Island, and Castle Gardens before Ellis Island was used, moved on to other parts of NJ and the rest of the US.


The inside of the station... Neat!


The inside of the station, with me!


Sue!!!!


Outside the train station, on the Hudson, with the most phallic building in Jersey City standing in the background...


Looking across at NYC...


Part of the view across the Hudson. Some old docks in the foreground, where ferries from NYC or Ellis Island would tie up.


Ellis Island, at a distance...

08 August 2006

Idea!

Brian had a great idea about some edited Battlestar Galactica, with Seinfeld bass music cues in it. I'd enjoy seeing that, and am smiling just thinking about it. Quite funny...

Everyone Loves Baltar would be a good show also, although perhaps not as much as Everyone Loves Hypnotoad.

Had a good chat on the phone tonight with Don Lord, who's a cousin of my grandfather. He's in his early 70's, and is really interested in the genealogy work I've been doing. Don's a real talker, so it's fun to just listen to him go on about a variety of things with the family, his early memories and all that. He's on e-mail now, so I may be able to just shoot him some questions to get him to think about old relatives, see if anything jogs his memory.

In other news, I got an e-mail from Ancestry.com's "Connection Service," from someone who is descended from a G3-Great Aunt of mine. Elizabeth Lang, this person's G2-grandmother, was the sister to Jane Lang, my G3-grandmother. I wrote back through the Ancestry interface on Thursday, but have heard nothing back yet. It makes me nervous, that perhaps the person didn't get my e-mail. I'll have to try again, and hopefully the person will write back soon. I don't like sitting on these things...

NP: Frank Zappa - Fine Girl (6 July 1982)