The Year Ahead – October 19

In the January/February 2024 issue of Family Tree Magazine, they have introduced The Year Ahead, 366 genealogy tips will make 2024 your best research year yet by Lisa A Alzo. Lisa mapped out a day-by-day research plan.

October 19 – Celebrate Sweetest Day by writing about a sweet moment in your or an ancestor’s life. (First kiss, prom date, or first time meeting a person.)

I think back onto my first kiss. I was with my Senior Girl Scout troop, helping to setup/open up a Girl Scout Camp in the northern section of our Girl Scout Council. There to assist in the project was a Camping Group, a group of families who camp together. We had to set up the big tents on platforms and move in cots and more.

Anyway, there was several families with children, and one family had two sons who were in our age group. At night, we all sat around the big campfire and he cozy up to me. We had smore’s and laugh and talked as a group. This campfire was a little distance from where my troop set up our campsite, thus he and his brother walked us back to our site. This is when I got my first kiss.  Even though he lived nearby my home, we never did get together again. Ironically, my husband had graduated from the same High School this young man was attending. My husband would have already been out of school when this sweet little first kiss happened.

Remember to have fun and Just do Genealogy!