Family History

Monday, February 24, 2025

It seems like Family History has been a big part of my life for the last month. Lisa is now the Relief Society Activities Chairperson and she planned an activity called “We All Have Something from Grandma”. As she prepared for this activity there were all these picture of her grandmothers floating around the house.

Last week she was in Idaho helping Melissa and Kristan go through Jackie and Ross’s old papers and organizing items that might have some family history value. So all last week there were pictures popping up on the family chat. Here are some of the pictures that I have seen in the last two weeks.

Lisa with her Grandma Kesler (Ashmead).

Grandma Kesler (Ashmead) with Alvin Kesler behind her and their scotty dog under the table.

Grandma Kesler (Ashmead) and a friend.

Lisa’s Granny Neidig

Morgan Lybbert is my mom’s first cousin

If I made one of these for my boys, it would have six generations of Leavitt men.

I loved this picture of my family in 1968.

I realized right away that this is the same picture that we did of my family. It is one last picture of the family how it was just before the oldest child left home. Greg went on his mission and Kira headed off to college.

What a cute little boy.

My dad while on his mission in New Zealand.

This isn’t family history, but this is the weather Lisa had while in Idaho. I think she shoveled that long walk three times while she was there.

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Hitler is partly responsible for the tradition that pink is for girls and blue is for boys. Gay men were imprisoned, and forced to wear a pink triangle to identify them as gay.

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