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Wordless Wednesday: Cart near Awassa, Ethiopia

bodhipaksa — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:52:49 +0000

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Wordless Wednesday: Techno-Maia

bodhipaksa — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:21:11 +0000

Maia takes after her parents (except that dad has enormous resistance to speaking on the phone).

Wordless Wednesday: Dolphins in Portsmouth, New Hampshire

bodhipaksa — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:11:25 +0000

Wordless Wednesday: Flower in Addis

bodhipaksa — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:28:48 +0000

A reminder of a warmer, gentler season.

Wordless Wednesday: Baboons in Ethiopia

bodhipaksa — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:33:45 +0000

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Wordless Wednesday: Meet Edward and Jane

bodhipaksa — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:26:01 +0000

OK, not entirely wordless this week. These are my great-grandparents, Edward Tragheim (1881 – 1971) and Jane Ann Waddell (1879 – 1973). They are my mother’s father’s parents.

I’ve been doing some intensive genealogical research recently and Edward was the son of Edward Tragheim (1861-1939), who was the son of Samuel Tragheim (1834 – ????), who was the son of Mendel Tragheim, from Hasenpoth (Aizpute), in Courland, Latvia, which was at that time part of Russia. Mendel and Samuel were certainly Jewish, but Samuel married in church and no one in my family had any notion of a Jewish connection until last week. They’re taking it well

I’d really like to figure out where and when Samuel died. He appears to have left his family in Scotland to move to London, where he made at least two patent applications. He then moved to Manhattan where he remarried a Johanna Lesser in 1877. There’s also a marriage in 1875 between a Samuel Tragheim and an Ann Smith in St. Louis, Missouri. Could that be the same Samuel? What an interesting possibility!

Wordless Wednesday: Blue-eyed Jesus

bodhipaksa — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:34:39 +0000

Wordless wednesday: Adam, Eve, a Lion, and the usual strategically placed foliage

bodhipaksa — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:00:27 +0000

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Wordless Wednesday — Boy on an Ethiopian Street

bodhipaksa — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:59:00 +0000

Wordless Wednesday: The Lion of Judah

bodhipaksa — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:45:24 +0000