tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034998384799920884.post7447038827740181117..comments2024-03-26T12:01:39.690-07:00Comments on A Family Tapestry: Energized by ConnectionsJacqi Stevenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03471698670217119444noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034998384799920884.post-39052052457081175912014-03-24T20:06:07.357-07:002014-03-24T20:06:07.357-07:00Thank you, Far Side! I enjoy helping out when I ca...Thank you, Far Side! I enjoy helping out when I can. I really love it when you are able to send a photo home to a family member. Iggy does really work wonders on making that happen!Jacqi Stevenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03471698670217119444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034998384799920884.post-70960706163074420652014-03-21T17:25:49.744-07:002014-03-21T17:25:49.744-07:00I would have given up on researching the photos lo...I would have given up on researching the photos long ago if it weren't for Iggy and the Full Circles...and your help too Jacgi. I appreciate your help!! :) Far Side of Fiftyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07995757632158408442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034998384799920884.post-53430592233502775872014-03-21T14:01:04.050-07:002014-03-21T14:01:04.050-07:00Tenuous? No problem, Iggy. You know me and rabbit ...Tenuous? No problem, Iggy. You know me and rabbit trails ;)<br /><br />I think your boat-on-the-lakes theory is quite possible. Remember, in the late 1930s, Lydia Melnitchenko had listed her husband's location as on a yacht in Cannes...if that is the kind of "large" boat you had in mind...<br /><br />I had also thought of the Great Lakes possibility when I saw how far west Forest County is in Pennsylvania. I happen to know of a ship builder located in that general area--coincidentally, the owner's surname being Stevens--whose location at first had puzzled me, until I realized the company had access to the Great Lakes. It's so easy to forget that little tab of land popping up to reach that lakefront shore.<br /><br />I'll be thinking of you when you make your way to Southhold on May 12--my mother's birthday, by the way. You'll be very close to my old stomping grounds there.Jacqi Stevenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03471698670217119444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034998384799920884.post-23904849877533332802014-03-21T07:48:15.896-07:002014-03-21T07:48:15.896-07:00It's a rather tenuous thing - but remember Per...It's a rather tenuous thing - but remember Perry R. Smith of West Hickory? Turns out his wife was a "Horton" - of Southhold, Long Island fame - and the lighthouse there... well, Barnabas Horton parents were a neighbor of my 5-6 great grandfathers - back in jolly Old England. Perry's son, Harry Horton Smith had a son named Perry (ugh!) and he was running the tannery in the 1940s. What I suspect, but can't confirm, is that the Smith family had a (large) boat on one of the lakes (Great, Finger, or just a lake) and had someone named Melnitchenko operate it for them. In any event, in a distant way, your family tapestry, interweaves with mine. I will be in Southhold on May 12.<br /><br />I think it would be cool if we (all your readers) could find a link, no matter how "loose" or "vague" to each other!Intense Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08441598926026727682noreply@blogger.com