A Festival of Postcards – Upcoming Topics (2009)
A F e s t i v a l o f P o s t c a r d s
Upcoming Topics (2009)
Main Street – June 2009 see link below
Signs – July 2009
Water – August 2009
Four-legged Animals - September 2009
Lights - October 2009
Maps – November 2009
White – December 2009
A FESTIVAL OF POSTCARDS – Headquarters
Carnival of Central and Eastern Genealogy – Traditional Dishes
Time Capsule - circa 1960s
Last Spring I was rummaging through some cardboard boxes at a used bookstore in Ste-Catherine (Quebec) where I’ve bought many books throughout the years. Unfortunately, on that day it was having a Going Out of Business Sale. Anyways, I spied an old hardcover copy of The Joy of Cooking by Erma Bombeck (ca.mid 1960s). Ah! – I thought, just the book to add to my daughter’s new cooking library. I could see that the previous owner had lovingly covered it with what looked like plastic shelf liner(the old-fashioned non-adhesive kind) and I’ve always been attracted to “previously-loved” books. Imagine my surprise when I got home and began to flip through the pages and a flurry of papers fell out into my lap. It was a collection of handwritten recipes (in French), newspaper clippings (from La Presse & the now defunc Montreal Star) and little product recipe booklets from American companies. It really was a little time capsule of Quebec food tastes in the 1960s.
The 1960s were a time of great change in Quebec eating habits – at least in the middle-class neighborhood where I lived. In the 1950s our family had eaten pretty much the same diet as our Acadian and French Canadian ancestors but in the 1960s there was a new influence on our diet – American television. Through American television we were exposed to American chefs such as Bombeck, but also American-style T.V. dinners and interesting recipes based on foods like Cheez Whiz and Jello.
How does all this connect to the Carnival of Central and Eastern Genealogy? Well, if I were eating anything from Central European cuisine during my childhood, it would have been something my mother got out of one of these little booklets, so today I’m sharing Heinz Ketchup’s version of the famous Russian dish – Beef Strogonoff.
Enjoy, and never forget to use your
Heinz – everything goes with it!
Carnival Headquarters
Jessica’s Genejournal
http://jessicagenejournal.blogspot.com/
Do Gooders! Postcardy, footnoteMaven, Marie Reed, Thomas MacEntee
For information about A Festival of Postcards and links to past issues go to:
A FESTIVAL OF POSTCARDS – Headquarters
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Blogging is about community – talking and listening to each other, learning and teaching, helping where we can. Today, in the middle of organizing my first Festival of Postcards, I’d like to take a moment to thank everyone for their support – whether in the form of encouraging words, publicity or entries. I’d also like to recognize four bloggers who really typify community building.
The first is Lynne at Postcardy. As you can guess from her blog name, she’s a Postcard Blogger. Lynne’s was one of the first Festival entries and if you scroll down to the foot of her post you”ll notice that she’s turned my Festival title into a logo and she says anyone is free to use it. Lynn doesn’t see what she did as a big deal but for me it is a very big deal because I don’t yet know how to make badges – so thank you very much, Lynn!
Well they say that it never rains, that it pours. A few days later footnoteMaven let me know that she had designed an original Festival logo which she’s also graciously offered to share with all of us! footNoteMaven needs no introduction in the Geneablogging community where she’s well known as the host of the carnival Smile for the Camera! but I would like to encourage Postcard Bloggers who are unfamiliar with her work, to visit her site Shades of the Departed where footnoteMaven blogs about the collection and study of photographs and other topics related to Visual Literacy in general.
Marie Reed, on the other hand, needs no introduction to Postcard Bloggers where she has built up a community of postcard lovers around her weekly Postcard Friendship Friday Although her site isn’t about genealogy, I do encourage Geneabloggers to visit Marie’s blog where she combines postcards, videos and other paper ephemera with historical tidbits, to create a fresh and whimsical blogging style. Believe me – you don’t know quirky till you’ve visited Cpahil Vintage Postcards!
I’ve left Thomas MacEntee for last because without him the Festival of Postcards just wouldn’t be happening. Thomas is the driving force behind GeneaBloggers - a sort of virtual agora where both professional and amateur genealogists and family historians can come together and share their experiences. My blog would not have grown so rapidly in just under five months without the different support structures that Thomas has put into place as well as his unsung behind-the-scenes technical help. In conclusion, I think that Thomas is the glue that helps us all stick together (maybe Krazy Glue but that’s a story for another day!)
For information about A Festival of Postcards and links to past issues go to:
A FESTIVAL OF POSTCARDS – Headquarters
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Genealogy TV for Canadians: The Lost Royals (British Monarchy)
One hour special on twice today (mid afternoon and late evening) on some PBS stations (e.g. WCFE, Quebec cable) – The Lost Royals.
British genealogists Stephen Thomas and Anthony Adolph accompany Jennie Bond (Royal Correspondent) and track down illegitimate descendants of British royalty to inform them of their noble ancestors. Read more »
A Festival of Postcards – Wheels
This coloured vintage postcard depicts a traditional French-Canadian family sitting on their porch with what was undoubtedly one of the most important wheels in pioneer times – the spinning wheel. In Quebec – as in much of North America – early pioneer families wore mostly homemade clothes which they made out of their own homespun cloth.
We know this was a pioneer family because of the text on the front of the card – “Une Famille de colons, Quebec, Canada” which translates as “A Family of Quebec Colonists”. Some readers may not know this but northern Quebec – and especially the Gaspe – was still considered a new area of colonization in the early twentieth century.
Size of postcard: approx. 13.5 c.m x 8.5 cm.
Front Text: Country Family, Quebec, Canada. Une famille de Colons, Quebec, Canada 60-7
Description: Traditional house, clothing, furniture, spinning wheel, chairs, clothing, family
Publisher: The Postcard & Greeting Card Co. Ltd., Toronto
Back: Postcard, Canada Series, Made in Canada, s….s is a gurantee of Canadian Manufacturing
A F e s t i v a l o f P o s t c a r d s
A “Wheel-y” Great Start to A Festival of Postcards!
The first submissions for the Premiere Issue of
A F e s t i v a l o f P o s t c a r d s
have been rolling in and I can’t wait to share them with everyone!
For those of you planning to join us, you have until
Wednesday, May 20th
to post a Wheel-y nice postcard!
Evelyn in Montreal: Michaud m. Lagace (Van Buren, 1851)
Down in the comments section of another post, Beth said:
Hi,
I’m trying to find if Jean Michaud and Rose Lagace (married Aug 4 1851) had a son Joseph who grew up to marry a Sophie St. Pierre. Please let me know if you have any info ? Beth
Answer:
I’m sorry, Beth, I don’t have this couple’s offspring. Although they are French Canadians I`m presuming they settled down in the USA? Perhaps one of our American readers with access to American sources will be able to help you.
Here is the information I do have in my database:
Jean-Marie Michaud m. Rose Lagace (Mignier) on 4 Aug 1851 in Van Buren (Aroostook ME USA). Jean-Marie’s parents were Jean Baptiste Michaud and Elisabeth Langlais. Rose was the daughter of Germain Lagace and Marie Leclerc.
Source: BMS2000
SEE COMMENT BOXES BELOW FOR FURTHER INFORMATION FROM
PETER LAGASSE
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Index: Quebec & New Brunswick Cemeteries
Chateauguay Quebec Headstones Coming Online Mar/Apr
Index: Native Americans of Quebec & Ontario
Updating Native American Marriages
Index: Early French Canadian Pioneers
Index: Theriaults | France – Acadie – NB – QC
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