Genealogy Tip; Interview Friends of the Family
Dad’s playing heydays were nearly over by the time I was born (I was the last kid). No longer having bands under his name, he would play solo gigs in restaurants, bars, or community events. When I was growing up I would hear “Are you Bill Geder’s kid? Boy, your dad could/can surely play that piano!” On Saturdays, Dad and I would go to his favorite watering hole. I was relegated to a side booth with comics and all the orange sodas I could stand. I thought Dad’s friends were cool, “Hey Georgie boy, you want a refill on that pop?” When I was old enough to belly-up to the bar with Dad, he would buy me a draft.
The genealogy tip is if you can’t get info on your peeps and ancestors, consider interviewing friends of the family. Often, they can give you tidbits and stories on your people.
Sometimes friends know more than siblings and relatives.
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16 March, 2008 at 1:36 pm
George, this is so true! When my grandfather died a little over a year ago, a friend of his who had worked for many, many years with him in the post office e-mailed his favorite memories of Grandpa to me. I will always treasure his friend’s words, because they gave me a perspective of my grandfather that I had not ever seen before!
16 March, 2008 at 1:55 pm
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22 March, 2008 at 2:55 am
George,
I can’t count the amount of times I have found info on my family by interviewing “friends of the family.” One instance is with my uncle’s childhood friend. This friend, Joseph, and my uncle met through school when they were six years old around 1950. Joseph is like a second son to my grandmother. He has recalled invaluable stories about my grandfather such as how he walked down the street carrying a crate of Pepsi soda bottles. (This is when sodas came in real glass bottles.) He also described how my grandfather would drink Pepsi’s real fast. Joseph’s memories would be from the 1950s to 1970s. I remember my grandfather from the 1970s. He was still drinking Pepsi’s then too. Maybe that’s why I prefer drinking Pepsi instead of Coke.