Posts Tagged geneology

So the other day my mother emails me a link to this document. At first glance It looks like a boring old work men’s handbook from 1918.  But as my mother explained to me, this was written by my great-grandfather, Clarence Westgate Cook, from my mother’s side of the family.  I honestly don’t know my mother’s side so well. We lived in the mid-west they lived in California.  My Uncles and my Aunt would visit from time to time but hardly often enough to be able to sit and talk about such things.

I must say when I found this link I was flabbergasted. Not only was it a revelation to me to see what my great grandfather did, it was also astonishing to me that anyone would scan in such a book, and make it available online in such a portable format.  I quickly started searching for other references of my grandfather’s name and found these few links and he’s named here, here, here and here. I even found his name listed in a 1920 USC Year Book as a professor of social engineering.

It’s simply amazing that such rather mundane objects from that era would be scanned and digitally archived.  Who would have figured anyone would want to see these books let alone want to digitize them. I also found it quite astonishing to find such a person in my ancestry of whom I had rather little information about. I think I need to find out more information about this.