Taralyn Parker

Spent the evening deep diving into the Wurttemberg, Germany family tables on Ancestry. I was able to add quite a few family members to my #familytree on #FamilySearch after cross-referencing with other records. What has been your favorite record database lately? Any discoveries?

@Smogzilla @Hotmomofive That would be so magical!

@Hotmomofive @KeepMovingTara I could see the Disneyland fireworks from my auntie’s house

What’s one tiny detail about your grandparents’ house you still remember vividly? Mine is in the comments #memories #nostalgia

@ScanmyphotosC So true!

One of the most relaxing things you can do tonight? Open an old photo album. Not for nostalgia alone. Your brain gets a break from alerts, headlines & doomscrolling. Old photos slow you down. They remind you life wasn’t always rushing. And somehow, for a few mins, you stop rushing too. #ScanMyPhotos

@BlueBelle7142 I totally get this. I inherited my great-grandparents' dresser (which was in my childhood room, but always had my grandma's stuff in it). When I open it, it still smells the same. I am scared it will lose that same nostalgic smell after my own clothes have been in there a while!

@KeepMovingTara The smell in a good way

@tweetannylee Now that sounds AMAZING! Reminds me of Lark Rise to Candleford.

@KeepMovingTara Their home had a post office and phone exchange in it. And red phone booth out the front.

@Kithurst_Close Love this! My paternal grandpa grew our Halloween pumpkins for a few years. Gardening definitely brings back memories. What were their favorite things to grow?

@KeepMovingTara When you walked out of my grandmother's kitchen screen door, you walked directly into her backyard vegetable garden. There was about two feet between the outer walls of the house to the garden boundary. Best veggies ever!

@MuttleyMuse Heavenly indeed! What a legacy. I think flute lessons at 70 are wonderful.

My grandmother played organ in the same Church for 61 years! There was an organ of course. But they had a piano, xylophone, violin, electric guitars, ukelele, accoustic guitars, vibraharp, banjo, accordian, drums, and my grandfather had a recording studio on the side where he recorded all of us kids playing and singing over the years. :) We had a ball as a family for holidays. My grandfather had soundproofed the room so we could make all the noise we wanted. They lived in the country so there were no neighbors to bother. And he had built seating completely around the room with cabinets underneath to store all the instruments. My Jewish grandfather lived next door to them (if in the country your nearest neighbor can be referred to as next door) after my Jewish grandmother passed and the two grandfathers would get together one playing piano and one playing the organ for hours as they aged. They both also played the guitar. They also went fishing together. We were surrounded by family, love, music and lots of good food. I often say heaven for me will be when I top the hill going to grandma's and find everyone home. My Jewish grandfather made sure all his grandchildren had piano lessons and he bought us all pianos. He worked very hard to make that provision for us all. Today all of us play multiple instruments. But I don't think he would have ever dreamed I would be taking flute lessons at age 70. LOL

@MuttleyMuse I bet the sound as well! We lived with my grandparents. My grandmother played the organ. I woke up to the lovely sound of the organ every Sunday. I wish I had thought to record it! What instruments did your grandparents have in their music room?

@KeepMovingTara The music room.....every tiny detail.

@CharmingLadyDes Oh I love that! What a wonderful host.

@KeepMovingTara Bathroom: the wonderful gas heater in the wall & my grandfather labeled every towel space w/a name, including “guest”! lol!

@maggiegeewriter Absolutely enchanting!

Tonight our house in bridal bloom

@Debbie7452 That would be a sight to see! How lovely.

@KeepMovingTara My grandparents had a window with open shelves that had rows of glass containers full of different colored water. It was so pretty.

@pannmcadoo Now that is fun!

@KeepMovingTara My grandmother raised parakeets and had a big birdhouse in her backyard.

@sloodles I vaguely remember a button box, too. What a delightful memory along with the lacy white curtains. I'm so sorry you lost them so young.

@KeepMovingTara Two things. Lacy white curtains in the front windows like so many people had back then. And a big tin "button box" that I loved to open and look at all the buttons one by one. Probably a couple hundred of them. They were both dead by the time I was 7.

@jbec570 What a wonderful talent/profession. I hope you have pictures!

@KeepMovingTara My maternal grandma’s indoor bathroom after many summers of only having an outhouse. My father and his father built a one-bedroom apartment onto our house. I remember their cabinets built by Grandpa, who was a finish carpenter. They were beautiful.

@Atbooks1 They've always intrigued me.

@KeepMovingTara the claw foot bath, I found it a bit scary

@pepperpotmary I've always loved claw tubs.

@KeepMovingTara Mothballs, a claw tub and doors connecting bedrooms upstairs

@HamishMcgeorge Ah yes! That and Reader's Digest.

@KeepMovingTara Stacks of National Geographic magazines going back decades. I loved digging through them. Always interested in geography.

@brendafactor2 That sounds amazing!

@KeepMovingTara The smell of wood combined with Sea air! Priceless unless you live at the beach.

@Hotmomofive That is AMAZING! What a fun memory. I remember loving to go to Knott's in the 80s and early 90s!

@KeepMovingTara I could see the fireworks from Knott’s from their home as a kid they did fireworks more often at the park

@MissDefibaugh Yes! I just helped pack up my grandpa's bookcase. So many memories.

@KeepMovingTara There was a bookcase upstairs packed with old books. I loved looking at them