Sonoita Singer Listening Center
September 22, 2006
For any of you who have checked out Suzanne’s Sonoita Singer blog site, just passing along that we have uploaded the first mp3′s of her singing to the Listening Center there.
If you head on over there, you can check out her singing a few songs from one of her shows. Those were the first trys at recording mp3′s. We will probably redo some of them as we have a better understanding of the process now. They are still good, but we can do better.
I hope to add to the Listening Center soon some statistical information that will show number of plays for each song and also the number of votes for each song. The recent release of America’s Army 2.7 has been occupying a bunch of my time so I havent gotten around to it yet.
And of course, this is Ryder Cup Golf Weekend, so a fair amount of time will be spent in front of the tube watching that. As usual, the USA is down again (5 – 3) after day 1. They seem to like to go for heroics in the Sunday singles but it usually fails.
Back to the Genealogy
September 11, 2006
I think I now have a pretty stable setup on the website that I run. Lots of upgrades and tweaks behind me in this latest round of changes. It’s time to get back to some family history research.
It’s been a while since I have done any kind of significant research on our family history. Last night, I updated the genealogy website with a few tidbits that I had gathered from Suzanne’s Dad. I have a few more and then its back to combing the net on any history I can find. Sometimes, all it takes is one little name to pave the way to a major breakthrough.
I wish I could find more history on the Klasen family name, but I keep running into dead ends. It doesnt help that no one short of my Mother is really alive on that side of the family. My Grandmother was adopted and never knew her Mother, so that’s a difficult one. I currently have no leads past my Grandfather, Fred Klasen, either. He died when I was very young, so I never knew anyone from his family.
I have quite a few leads to follow on my Mother’s side and her Mother (my Grandma) is still alive so, hopefully, I can get a few more leads. I really expect to make some big discoveries on Suzanne’s side of the family. Her dad has lots of info and wants to participate in research. He has boxes of stuff to go through. He also recently retired and is taking a genealogy class at the local community college. He also has lots of stories and tidbits in his memory that I want to capture. It should be fun.
I have sent emails to a few folks on my side of the family trying to round up some researchers and such but not sure anyone will bite.
Be sure to periodically check the genealogy pages of Mr Papa’s World for updates and let me know if you can contribute anything to the family history.
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