Gingerbread

This month's Garden Club meeting was a celebration of the different cultures that make up this country and each of us demonstrated that by bringing a dish representing our heritage. As you can imagine, there was plenty of food. I made a Scottish gingerbread that was delicious. Considering there was a stick and a half of butter in the one-loaf recipe, I'm sure you can understand. I even got up early to make it and brought it in piping hot and without any dog hair. Big accomplishments around here.

Sue told the story of her father's arrival in New York from Italy. All three times. He ran away to America twice, and was followed and brought home by his father twice, before marrying Sue's mother and sailing here a third and final time. Sue was able to find the scanned image of the ship's manifest from that final trip on ellisisland.org. If you know the names of your ancestors who may have come through that port of entry, go to the site and look 'em up. I am amazed at the amount of work that must have taken to get up and running. A wonderful resource for genealogy buffs. Let me know if you find anything about your family and I'll do the same. Happy hunting!