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With the start of a new year, I’ve decided that for the first time in years I am setting in place a resolution or two for the new year. I started research on my family about 1976 – that’s 45 Continue reading My 2022 Resolution – Prove and Extend My Meitzler Lines
I’m guessing a few of my readers may be wondering what happened to me. For those who don’t know, I caught the Covid-19 Virus in January, and posted an update about it in February, thinking I was on the mend. Continue reading Covid-19 and the Long Haul
Since I last wrote, Patty and I got and survived Covid-19. My brother, Steve, also had a pretty bad case of it. I was in the hospital less than 24 hours, while Steve was there for three days. Patty was Continue reading Covid-19: Not Fun at All
It’s Mother’s Day and although I couldn’t go visit mom today, I certainly can I write a bit about her. This next week, May 18, mom would be 109 if she were still with us. May 18 was always an Continue reading Virginia Cornett-Feller Claussen Meitzler – Mom
First – I apologize for the fact that this entry is ALL personal. Maybe too personal. But I am sure that a least of few of my readers, including relatives, might be interested in what I am about to write. Continue reading It’s time that the cobbler’s kid gets some shoes
In looking back at RootsTech 2018, I’m coming away motivated to do something meaningful with my many pictures – and visuals in all forms. I am immediately setting about doing the following: Get my slides, film, and videos hi-res digitized. Continue reading I’m Motivated to Get My Stories+Pictures Available to My Family & Freinds
I haven’t blogged a lot since last fall, as we’ve been totally distracted with getting our “new” old building into shape for the next decade or more of living, working and yes… even gardening. You may remember that on the Continue reading What’s Up With Leland & Patty… And a Bit of Orting History
I apologize for not blogging for the last couple weeks. I’ve been distracted by personal and family issues and haven’t gotten to it. My sister passed away yesterday, Sunday, October 2, 2016. She passed on Rosh Hashanna – the Jewish Continue reading RIP Erma June Claussen-Meitzler-Lamb 1932-2016
I’ve been a GenealogyBank fan since before their conception (that’s another story). I absolutely love our access to online newspapers – and GenealogyBank does a great job with it. I got an email this morning with an announcement that GenealogyBank Continue reading GenealogyBank Adds “My Folder” with Search Saving Capability
After an absence of about 23 years, Patty and I are again living in Orting, Washington. We lived about 5 miles outside of Orting, in Pierce County, up until 1991. We then moved to the tiny community of Elbe (just Continue reading Back in the Great State of Washington
I apologize for being away from blogging, newsletter, and such for the last two months, But we had things that had to be done that could not wait. On the 10th of August, Patty and I went back to Utah, Continue reading We Are Selling our Home in Bountiful, Utah
Last spring we (the Meitzlers) made the decision to move home to Orting, Washington. As of July, we had been gone for 20 years, as it was in July of 1994 that we left Washington State and went on the Continue reading Family Roots Publishing & Meitzler Family Move Update
Tomorrow is thanksgiving and I find myself looking back at the Thanksgivings of my past. Born in Washington State and surrounded by most of my extended family, we always got together with the full family at Thanksgiving and Christmas. But Continue reading Thanksgiving and Family Drift
Goodness… How time does fly. This Sunday, September 1, 2013, will be the 45th Anniversary of the wedding of Patty Sue Daffern and Leland K. Meitzler. Yes. That’s us. And it’s really hard to believe that 45 years have gone Continue reading Looking Back – On Our 45th Wedding Anniversary – Sept. 1, 2013
On Sunday, September 1, Patty and are celebrating our 45th Wedding Anniversary along with our sons and their families. It just happens to also be Labor Day Weekend. In honor of this milestone anniversary, Patty and I are doing something Continue reading Take An Additional 20% Off All Products at the Family Roots Publishing Co. Website This Weekend