Thinking back in time!
A summer spent with her Grandmother sparked a lifelong search into her Betty's family story.
Grandpa died in 1949, so it was not long after that, that I stayed with Grandma a couple weeks out of the summer vacation. She would put me to work. Shining silver or cleaning her venetian blinds. It wasn’t all work, she taught me how to embroider and to quilt, and a lot of conversation.
Henry L. Jobe
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Being from a small town in Oklahoma, New York was big time.
That’s when I started an interest in genealogy. She told me her mother was from New York! Being from a small town in Oklahoma, New York was big time. I listened to her stories, about her brothers and sisters. About the trip that she and Grandpa made when they came to California. She wrote the name, dates, and birth place of both my Great Grandparents on a scrap piece of paper and I still have that scrap of paper.
Needless to say, I really didn’t think about it much when I thought I was too old to go to Grandma’s. That is until I was married and had two little ones. I didn’t get too far then because you had to write for information and wait for it to come back. I had my hands full with the two little boys so that was the end of that, for a while.
Then there were computers! My daughter talked me into buying one and that was about the same time that Ancestry started. First time I saw my grandpa’s name on that screen I sat and cried. Then I got myself to the library and took classes, and the Church and took a class. I enjoyed it so much I joined the Society and was then talked into volunteering and have enjoyed every minute of it. I have made friends that I would have never met and learned so many things about genealogy and about my family that I would probably never have known.
Grandpa Henry Lafayette Jobe and Betty's Dad, Henry "Dee" Devere
