Linda’s Monday Morning Moaning’s
I have decided to start my blogging adventure with stories and research information that I have gathered along the way in my book writing journey these last couple of years.
After an innocent question about genealogy at the local library. I was told if I was interested in anything for history (yes) or genealogy (yes) that I should go into Romeo and see what the Kezar Library had to offer. One of the best moves I could have made.
I met Stacie and Julie the librarians, archivists at the library, they opened my world in ways I hadn’t thought possible. I was asked if I would be interested in volunteering to do some genealogy work on the original owners of the Romeo historical homes when they were first built. After spending over 25 years on my own family history stories, I wasn’t sure how interesting researching people that had no connection to my own family would be. Nothing could have been further from the truth!
My starting point for most of the work came from a ‘A Tour of Historic Romeo’ by Richard M Daugherty, a wonderful brochure/booklet that first came out in 1970, a very through work on these beautiful homes. I would compile files for each of the homes I worked on and gathered what ever information that was available including vintage pictures and also current images (photography being a past employment part of my life and now a hobby orientated part). I was given access to their treasury of Romeo Observer Newspapers and their archive of books, photographic images and various collections from Romeo and surrounding areas. While often looking through the Observers for the wonderfully written obituaries of many of the founding settlers of the surrounding areas, I would find myself getting lost in the lovely stories and articles of the long ago past, and having to pull myself back to present.
While I was able to do quite a bit of work from my own home, my knowledge of Romeo and its interesting founding pioneers was just the beginning of this new experience.
On that ‘wee’ note, till next week.
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Linda Osborne Cynowa 
Nicely done!
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Congratulations and the best of luck to you Linda on your new blogging venture!
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So nice to hear that you enjoyed volunteering at the Romeo Community Archives and we are thankful for your valuable research. Your books are well researched and have so many interesting photographs and stories, our communities are very fortunate to have your books available. Can’t wait for the next one!
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It’s truly been my pleasure, to have made so many lovely and great friends through my time there, and not to speak of the ‘crochet girls’ who so kindly excepted this ‘one stitch, rectangular’ crocheter into their group! ❤️
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Linda, your blog is great. I read backwards from today’s post on WordPress. Not sure if you’ve found it but there is “reader” area where you can see all the new posts. It’s at the top next to “your site” … I have found one way to get people reading my blog is to read through some of these and make comments. Just a tip. I imagine there is wonderful community of history writers on WordPress.
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