My Mama passed away this spring. I wrote her obituary for the funeral home. Shee is buried in Brookside Memorial Park, Houston, Texas, next to Daddy. They share a lovely double memorial stone. Sally Lucille Irwin Buntyn, age 79, of Houston, Texas passed away April 10, 2022. Sally was born October 15, 1942 in Houston, […]
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Sally Lucille (Irwin) Buntyn (1942-2022)
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Joe Stanley Buntyn Jr. (1940-2021)
Posted November 4th 2022 by sbuntynMy Daddy passed away last summer. I wrote his obituary for the funeral home. He is buried in Brookside Memorial Park, Houston, Texas. Joe Stanley Buntyn, Jr., age 80, of Houston, Texas passed away June 15, 2021. Joe was born October 21, 1940 in Houston, the eldest child of Joe Stanley Buntyn and Alma Louise […]
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52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks – 2019 – #1 “First”
Posted January 6th 2019 by sbuntynI recently joined Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge. I’ll receive a prompt for each week to write and share something about an ancestor. This week’s prompt is “First” – it can be interpreted however I choose. I’m going to write about the first time I learned about family history and genealogy, in […]
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“Mimi and Dona”, or “Grace and Dorothy”
Posted December 23rd 2015 by sbuntynI watched a documentary on PBS tonight called “Mimi and Dona”. It is part of the Independent Lens documentary series. The film follows Mimi, the elderly mother and care-giver of Dona, her intellectually-disabled adult daughter. Mimi can no longer care for Dona and must find her a new home. I cried my way through this film. I had […]
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1940 Census, Buntyn Households
Posted June 19th 2015 by sbuntynI find so little time right now to work on my genealogy. Sometimes it seems like months go by without a chance to do any online research. And forget going to Clayton Library – I haven’t had a free afternoon to do that in a couple of years. But tonight I was looking at a […]
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Louisiana Death Records
Posted July 23rd 2009 by sbuntynI thought I’d test out the Louisiana Death Index (1850-1875; 1894-1954) available at pilot.familysearch.org. I entered the surname BUNTYN, pulled up 28 exact and close matches. The very first entry on the list was for Jenks CAUGHLIN, spouse Almeda BUNTYN. I have been looking for this Almeda/Almedia BUNTYN and her husband, “Mr. COUGHLIN” for a […]
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Age on records
Posted July 23rd 2009 by sbuntynI came across this quotation while doing an anacrostic in a puzzle magazine: “When…Bonaparte…met Josephine, she was thirty-two…. Her…grace, her clothes, her house…almost instantly subdued the rather raw young man, her junior by six years…and…they were married. On the certificate of marriage, he added two years to his age and she subtracted three from hers.” […]
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World War I Draft Registration
Posted September 4th 2007 by sbuntynToday, I’m searching the Ancestry.com database for World War I Draft Registration cards, 1917-1918. I’m looking for a lot of names, and I’ll use different search strategies for different names. For example, when I search for the surname BUNTYN, I usually search three ways: 1. I search for the exact name 2. I truncate the […]
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Evidence Explained by Mills
Posted September 4th 2007 by sbuntynI received Elizabeth Shown Mills’ Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace about two weeks ago. Wow, what a fantastic reference book! It contains 885 pages of everything a genealogist needs to know about citing sources. I have already flagged several sections with citation formats that I’ll use frequently. There are a few that I’ll […]