{"id":10,"date":"2011-11-18T10:04:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T15:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ancestorcentral.com\/?p=10"},"modified":"2011-11-18T10:38:11","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T15:38:11","slug":"why-i-do-what-i-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ancestorcentral.com\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"Why I Do What I Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ancestorcentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.ancestorcentral.com\/2011\/11\/Faye-in-Chair.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11\" title=\"Faye-in-Chair\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ancestorcentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.ancestorcentral.com\/2011\/11\/Faye-in-Chair-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ancestorcentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.ancestorcentral.com\/2011\/11\/Faye-in-Chair-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/blog.ancestorcentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.ancestorcentral.com\/2011\/11\/Faye-in-Chair.jpg 323w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meet my grandma, Fayette Winona Madeline Driscoll Dolan.\u00a0 I was enormously privileged to grow up in the house with my grandparents, as she had with hers.\u00a0 My grandma was an interesting woman.\u00a0 When I heard children at school talking of being Irish or Italian, I came home and asked, &#8220;Grandma, what are we?&#8221;\u00a0 She did not hesitate to answer, &#8220;Yankees.&#8221;\u00a0 When I asked her where we were from, I got a matter of fact answer.\u00a0 &#8220;Here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, that solves everything!\u00a0 We&#8217;re from here.\u00a0 End of story.\u00a0 Right?\u00a0 Not so much!<\/p>\n<p>A few more years passed by and Thanksgiving time was rolling around, just as it is now.\u00a0 Grandma casually remarked, &#8220;Our people came over on that boat.&#8221;\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t sure whether she was serious or whether she was starting to crack up but she seemed serious enough.\u00a0 Years later I know that she couldn&#8217;t have been more serious and was absolutely right.<\/p>\n<p>Many years later I have come to acquire the collections of newspapers, photographs, deeds, and bills that my grandmother and generations before her had hoarded.\u00a0 I have a favorite quote about that and sadly, the woman who wrote it passed away on October 28th of this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Blessed are the great-grandmothers, who hoarded newspaper clippings and old letters, for they tell the story of their time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>-Beatitudes of a Family Genealogist by Wilma Mauk (1922-2011)<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet my grandma, Fayette Winona Madeline Driscoll Dolan.\u00a0 I was enormously privileged to grow up in the house with my grandparents, as she had with hers.\u00a0 My grandma was an interesting woman.\u00a0 When I heard children at school talking of being Irish or Italian, I came home and asked, &#8220;Grandma, what are we?&#8221;\u00a0 She did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ancestorcentral.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ancestorcentral.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ancestorcentral.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ancestorcentral.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ancestorcentral.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ancestorcentral.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ancestorcentral.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ancestorcentral.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ancestorcentral.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ancestorcentral.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}