When graduation has a pandemic, they thought this up!

On FaceBook, social media tries to make up for the lack of ceremonies and celebrations in the last 2 years...

This [FaceBook] group was created to honor the Class of 2022 at Olentangy Liberty High School in Powell, OH! As you know, the tradition started with the class of 2020 and continued last year due to the global Covid Pandemic causing them to miss many priceless experiences!! It has become a valued tradition in the community and we would like to see it continue for many years to come.

The whole community is invited to show their support to the seniors at OLHS by signing up to "Adopt-a-Senior"! Those who choose to adopt a senior are committing to sending a letter, card, small gift, balloons, gift card, snacks, etc. to help their adoptee celebrate their accomplishments and give them something FUN to look forward to during these difficult times!! How big or how small the gesture is not the point, we just want to show them we care!!

HOW TO ADOPT: Scroll through the group posts and look for the 💙NOT ADOPTED💙 note to see the seniors who need to be adopted, COMMENT "ADOPTED" on the post, then message the parent to learn more about the senior & coordinate drop off. Our goal is to have all 504 seniors adopted at least once, so your help is much appreciated!!

Please note: All negative comments will be deleted and offenders blocked. Please keep this a positive place to honor our seniors!!

ATTENTION PARENTS OF 2022 LIBERTY SENIORS:

See the announcement post for instructions to add your senior to the adoption list. Please help us spread the word about this project with your fellow senior parents who might not be on Facebook. Thanks! 

My grad for 2022!

 OLHS Class of 2022 Adopt a Senior

 Olentangy Liberty High School in Powell, OH!

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Adopted

This is our senior, Caroline Nicole Heym. Caroline is an incredibly creative and hard working girl who puts 110% into everything she’s passionate about, her friends especially. She is graduating Summa Cum Laude and will attend George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs in Washington, DC to study International Relations in the Fall. She has always has a passion for history and geography embracing German at Liberty through the rigors of AP. Caroline swam all 4 years of high school after swimming competitively since she was very young, spanning three states. Caroline was Vice President of Memory Makers, a service club supporting individuals with Alzheimer’s disease. Caroline loves art and photography and will be featured in the Governor’s show later this month. She is excited to study abroad and we are thrilled to see where her studies take her. We are so proud of her! Congratulations to the entire class of 2022!

Finding anyone in the 1950 Census

 The people at Ancestry just posted that they're indexing different states of the 1950 Census, so search first for your state before looking for individuals.

Nope.

I like Amy Johnson Crowe's method...which has worked for me in at least 2 states. It doesn't mean going right bang into the census. It uses a kind of sideways method of another internet source.

Go look at this YouTube video, it's not long. I took some notes for her instruction after looking at it again. Then I just did what she suggested!

I hope you have an interest in finding maybe parents, grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, or like me, yourself!

1950 Census

 Several screen shots give the 1950 page which includes my family and myself.

I tried the save function from the site I'd found it on, but it was blurry. Though we are on pg. 21 of Enumeration District 163-695, there had also been some kind of inventory page for the microfilms, so it's pg. 22 of the films.

Though my family did have the sample lines, it didn't have anything that added information for me. I think my mother probably gave the answers. 

I finally found me

 Lots of people (around my age) are having a good time (I was going to say fun, but it's more the emotion of satisfaction) finding themselves in the 1950 Census, which has recently been published.

I thank Amy Johnson Crow for publishing some YouTube videos giving great short cuts to finding one's ancestry in the 1950 Census. I would never have known to use Stevemorse.org to find information about it. I just made notes from the video, and followed them step by step.

This is because Ancestry doesn't have the 1950 Census linked to our various relations yet.

So I started out assuming I'd be in St. Louis, because that's the year we moved there. I even remembered our address, so that helped. And lots of people were not at home on that street. As well as our house number which I remembered wasn't listed. Drat.

Then I thought of my grandparents in Houston TX, who lived most of their lives on Brockton...and I didn't remember the number. After finding that street on the enumerator district (ED) I searched and searched for them, to no avail.

Another day, I finally thought of my friend down the street who I used to roller skate with, Katherine Hodnutt. Don't ask me why I knew her name, but I also remembered living on Cumberland in Houston before moving. Then I put two and twelve together and realized we moved after school was out, and the census was taken everywhere in April.

And so I found Cumberland, looked on Google Maps to see cross streets, and then found the ED for where we lived. Fortunately it was a pretty short street. And as I looked through the many pages for that ED, I was grateful that the census taker had listed the street names in tiny letters on each page.

I first found the Hodnutts, and there was Katherine, age 10! Wow, I didn't remember she was older than me.

And two houses down were the Rogers. It was a simple entry for the four person household. Dad worked and mom was at home with two kids.

There may be special questions that were asked of Mom, who I assume was giving info for the family. I don't know for sure which answers below referred to our family, because the numbering system is vague.

Sorry the saved page ended up blurred. I can try a screen save the next time I chase it down again!

Combining the three

 Big trees all, my family trees of three roots. But now I am working to combine them. I start out by saying I hope I don't lose any details, especially the wonderful photos I've collected for so many ancestors.

I've discovered many more ancestors for some of the lines, by again looking at the wives' trees. So the Pulsifers, for instance, now go back much further, by just following the line of one wife. They were on the Swasey family tree before.

But with April 1, 2022 publishing the Census of 1950, I will have many more details to add to the postings about the ancestors, including myself, who were alive at that time.

So my primary tree is called George Elmore Rogers Genealogy.BR. No spaces for the Ancestry tree. And it's not searchable by others at this time, meaning it's a private tree. That's my father's name, but it includes now my children and grandchildren (all living at this time) as well as my three sons' three wives and their family trees.

As of today, April 3, 2022, I have 5977, and still 4000 more hints on just the ones already counted onto the tree. I have lots more ancestors to add for the 3 wives of my sons, as well as I keep finding new branches to add.

I am thrilled to find these real people, who once lived, loved and died (most of them it must be admitted.)