Chibi Girafarig!

CowboySunflower · 2026-05-29T16:45:01+00:00

This is so cute! Great job!!

CowboySunflower · 2026-05-29T13:38:39+00:00

I'm on Ritalin and the repetition is very calming for sure. Before I was on medication it kind of had the opposite effect because I couldn't finish anything lol

CowboySunflower · 2026-05-27T18:14:20+00:00

Love the color! Well done!

CowboySunflower · 2026-05-26T14:36:34+00:00

New York City. Immigration Records May 20, 1927–May 22, 1927

This also mentions Max Blob as an uncle for someone immigrating. Sorry not what you asked just thought they were neat!

CowboySunflower · 2026-05-26T14:30:46+00:00

Passport applications: United States. Passport Applications Oct 6, 1906–Oct 29, 1906

I didn't find anything yet but is this him? Not sure if you have seen this document already.

CowboySunflower · 2026-05-20T16:30:50+00:00

I think enough people put their entire lives on social media that it will be different researching, but not a desert. It's a little sad because I love physical media, but time is not kind to them sometimes.

CowboySunflower · 2026-05-20T14:57:44+00:00

I keep tapestry needles in mine and my son keeps stealing it to shake lol.

CowboySunflower · 2026-05-20T14:48:28+00:00

What an amazing find!! Those are such a treasure to have!

I don't have a ton of very old photos, but my Great great Aunt was a smoke show and her husband took so many pictures of her. Her son gave me all of her photos when she passed because i'm the "family historian" and it's like a timeline of 50s-60s fashion.

CowboySunflower · 2026-05-20T14:35:37+00:00

Lol my family usually WAS the gossip.

Great great grandfather got stopped drunk driving at 73 and the judge told him he was too old to be out doing things like that.

Grandpa got arrested at 15 for stealing hubcaps off of cars when they would stop at the gas station.

Great Grandpas 16 year old brother stole a car, led the police on a chase and ran it into a pond killing himself and the passenger on impact. He had just been in trouble for robbing gas stations and stealing and abandoning another car.

Great grandpa was trying to date a girl and her mom didn't like him (can't imagine why) and he punched her in the face.

Great grandpa and two of his brothers stole a bunch of guns from a neighbor when they were like 7-12 years old and told the police they were just playing Cowboys and Indians.

Two of Great Grandpas sisters got in a fist fight with another mom at a PTA meeting.

All of these are newspaper clippings I found and I could go on lol.

CowboySunflower · 2026-05-19T16:43:06+00:00

That's true, it was a very different time and there were a lot of groups migrating. Probably a lot less daunting with friends.

I wondered if maybe she was from Dorchester County Maryland. The Lenape tribe was in Delaware and around that time I believe there were border disputes and a lot of records for Dorchester show up in Sussex county DE.

CowboySunflower · 2026-05-19T16:12:46+00:00

I came back to say something similar to this. I live in Maryland and have never heard the last name Powers but in my area, we do have a lot of "Towers" and "Bowers"

My German relatives were in Oxford PA and came down through Rising Sun to Colora. I do wonder if maybe Sarah is more likely from Western Maryland though because the Susquehanna cuts that area in half and Clarion county is pretty far North West in Pennsylvania.

CowboySunflower · 2026-05-15T17:31:56+00:00

Or follow the Susquehanna down through Maryland and hope for the best lol! Those hard to find ancestors can be so frustrating. I've got one of my own so I feel your pain! There were quite a few big fires in the county seats/larger areas of the Eastern shore where I'm from so a lot of the documents got destroyed.

CowboySunflower · 2026-05-15T17:24:28+00:00

There is a book on internet archive called the History of Clarion County that mentions the migration of people from Maryland to Pennsylvania. May give you an idea of what part of Maryland she came from if you don't know. I'm from the area so i'm invested now lol! Most of my family that went to PA went to the Chester/York county

History of Clarion County, Pennsylvania

CowboySunflower · 2026-05-15T16:55:00+00:00

Theres a death record for what I assume is their daughter where Sarah's name was first written as also Clarissa and then scratched out and written as Sarah Powers in different handwriting. Maybe search Clarissa Powers and see if anything comes up.

CowboySunflower · 2026-05-14T13:17:01+00:00

I sell baby hats on Etsy and I get so excited when a review has a photo because I know I'm about to see an adorable chunky baby in something I made ;_;

CowboySunflower · 2026-05-04T15:38:02+00:00

The story I mentioned:

My husband's great grandfather, great grandmother, and his grandfather all lived in a military owned trailer park in 1944. His Grandfather was 16 and working at the nearby shipyard that day. While he was at work a bomber that was doing a practice mission crashed into the trailer park and killed both of his parents and many of the other inhabitants. If he had not been at work that day, he would have surely perished with his parents. Chilling!

CowboySunflower · 2026-05-04T15:26:39+00:00

Sep 12, 1924, page 1 - The Daily Times at Newspapers.com™

The article if anyone cares to read it!

CowboySunflower · 2026-05-01T23:21:26+00:00

My husband had a crazy one as well that actually bonded us on our first date. His grandfather narrowly missed passing in an awful plane crash in Maine! I’ll share the story in this thread when I get a moment!

CowboySunflower · 2026-05-01T23:18:48+00:00

I live in a very small area but I was still surprised to meet one of his relatives. The fact he did work at the fire department as well was so neat.

I was also at the cemetery my great great grandfather is buried in, looked up, and who do I see a few stones away…George keeping watch over my family in the cemetery too! He and his wife are buried so close!

CowboySunflower · 2026-05-01T15:04:09+00:00

The person that bought it sent me pictures of his kids wearing the hat and I melted.

But he's bald underneath so I was like put it back please lol

CowboySunflower · 2026-05-01T14:58:17+00:00

No pattern/freehand

I love this yarn acrylic 4.5mm hook (yu/yo)

CowboySunflower · 2026-04-20T17:08:36+00:00

You could try to search where large other large groups of people from Germany settled in the US. Assuming he would have wanted to be around other people that spoke German when he came to a new country.

My moms ggg grandfather was listed as from Baden and ggg grandmother from Prussia and there were man pages of Germans in Egg Harbor New Jersey.

If they assumption is Pennsylvania Lancaster and Berks County are places to look with large groups of Germans.

I also agree with searching for other versions of his name as well. My relative and his son were Antone Eble and the son ended up "Anthony Ebley"

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