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Skriven 2015-02-03 21:14:04 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 23614 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
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Hi Nancy,

 NB>  NB>> I've seen that lots of places we've been...  Richard has only
 NB> lived in  NB>> NYS, although in various parts thereof... :)

 RH> Did he ever live in the Catskills?

 NB> No... he was born in Elmira, and the family moved to North Syracuse
 NB> when he was young.  He spent a lot of summer days up in the
 NB> Adirondacks,
 NB> either at boy scout camp (Massaweepie [(sp?) only mostly heard it
 NB> said, not seen it written]) or at the Pond...

Probably Don would know of it; he's an inspector for Boy Scout camps and
has mentioned doing one in the Adarondacks.

 NB> had  NB>> the experience of living in totally different parts of the
 NB> country  NB>> growing up..  East, West, Central, South and North...
 NB> :)

 RH> Did your parents ever acquire a taste for local foods and add them to
 RH> their home cooking or did you wait until you got out on your own to
 RH> try new foods?

 NB> There was always some trying out of local foods... after all, that's
 NB> how we discovered that we ALL (even Daddy) hated hominy, no matter how
 NB> Mommy tried to fix it... ;)

OTOH, my parents pretty much stayed with old familiar things, even when
they traveled. In Germany, a lot of the cooking there was close enough
to what Mom did (meat and potatoes) that it was familiar. When we were
in the southwest, they didn't want to try the local Mexican or Tex-Mex
cooking.

 NB> went  NB>> along...  made it easy to assimilate from friends and
 NB> acquaintances  NB>> later on, and from whatever I was exposed to...
 NB> ;)

 RH> We assimilated parts--some words have entered our vocabulary that we
 RH> picked up in various assignments. Also, as you know, various local
 RH> foods are now part of our regular eating. I don't think Steve picked up
 RH> any sort of accent but I have more of a southern one. I didn't realise
 RH> how much of one I had until we were in HI and I was questioned about
 RH> it. (G)

 NB> THe whole four years we lived in Mississippi, we were teased about our
 NB> Yankee accents... we moved up to Philly, and were immediately teased
 NB> about our southern accents...  ;)   One just can't win...  (G)

But how long did it take you to shed the accent? (G) We'd not lived in
NC for 18 years when we moved to HI.

 NB> with Mom...  NB>> we could put our heads together to solve the genie
 NB> puzzles, too...

 RH> That must have been fun as you were working on the same family for the
 RH> most part. I presume you did some research on your birth family while
 RH> on some of the trips with your MIL, but mostly they were Backus family
 RH> research?

 NB> Mostly she was along on my trips, helping me find my family info.
 NB> She'd done most of her family already by the time we were doing our
 NB> trips
 NB> together, and the Backus genealogy had been done by a distant cousin
 NB> who got info from as many Backus descendants as he could, including
 NB> Richard's Grampa... :)  Mom did do some on Grams' family, but again, I
 NB> think that was mostly done by the time we went on our trips.  There

Along for the ride and any incidental information she could come across.


 NB> was some searching for cemetaries for her people when we were up at
 NB> the
 NB> Pond, as one branch of hers was up in St. Lawrence County...  If there
 NB> happened to be some research she could do on her family when we were
 NB> in an area for mine, of course we'd work on that together, too... :)
 NB> The
 NB> first trip we did together, she decided that she wanted to teach me
 NB> how to do on-site research, so off we went to central PA, to
 NB> courthouses,
 NB> cemetaries, libraries, churches and all... and she did a one-on-one
 NB> workshop, basically...  ;)

Where in central PA? Must have been fun learning about the family that
way.


 RH> We can usually find some place we can agree on for meals, and
 RH> sometimes even figure we want to split a certain meal. Other times we
 RH> agree on where to go, but both want a different meal.(G)

 NB> Sounds pretty normal...  :)

Yes, entirely so.

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