Category Archives: Family history

Jack’s first marriage: John Millard Hess b. 25 Aug 1916 Married 27 Jan 1951 Widowed 19 Nov 1961 Esther Josephine O’Riordan b. 29 Jan 1929 d. 19 Nov 1961, London, England Jack’s first wife, Jo, was born in the Bronx. Her son Greg shared a story of how, as an infant, her family took aContinueContinue reading “Jack Hess Family (Grandma’s Second Husband)”

Comments, corrections and additional stories welcome! Use the “Leave a Comment” link at the bottom of this post. Greg was born in Munich, Germany while his father was stationed there. Greg’s mother Jo (Esther Josephine O’Riordan), Jack’s first wife, died in an accident when their family was stationed in London; Greg had just turned four.ContinueContinue reading “Greg Hess Family”

    The proofs are back and they look great!!!!! I noticed one typo (in a person’s name unfortunately) and a few scanned pages that aren’t quite right, but we are going forward.

“Chakra is a concept referring to wheel-like vortices which, according to traditional Indian medicine, are believed to exist in the surface of the etheric double of man.[2] The Chakras are said to be “force centers” or whorls of energy permeating, from a point on the physical body, the layers of the subtle bodies in anContinueContinue reading “Of Chakras and Marinara Sauce”

The writing, editing, formatting and compiling of the family history is done. The pages have been numbered and the table of contents is complete. It’s one big PDF now, not to  be unraveled for a misspelled word, or, horrors, a left-out comma. I’ve even chosen the color plates (we budgeted for 30). I’m ready toContinueContinue reading “It’s Done”

Today I put in only seven hours on family history. For the past few month’s I’ve dedicate one weekend day to the family history project each weekend and put in about 9 hours on that day. But I’m at a good stopping point so I’m going to put it down for now although there areContinueContinue reading “Total Slacker”