Earlene Rae Bagley McIntosh

My husband's Grandma McIntosh passed away last week, and my mother in law asked if I'd put together a photo slideshow for her viewing.  I've spent the last few days/nights collecting photos from relatives and compiling everything into a slideshow.  The most rewarding part of this project for me was seeing photos of Earlene as a child and young woman, since I had never before seen any photos of her from before her wedding day.  Anyway, here it is:

Family History Interview Videos

My Mom's Side of the Family:

Interview of Frances Olive Dick Monk, May 2002

(My maternal great grandmother).  Interviewed in the home of her daughter, Beverly Monk Spohr, in Lee's Summit, Missouri by her great granddaughter, Stephanie Chidester.

https://youtu.be/Dt8gYmU-tWo

Interview of Beverly Frances Monk Spohr 2008 -- full interview

(My maternal grandmother).  Interviewed in her home in Lee's Summit, Missouri by her granddaughter Stephanie Chidester Bradshaw

https://youtu.be/FsXncuCD17Y

(A few years ago I took portions of this interview and added photos from Beverly's life, and made a video of it as a gift for my mother.  But I wanted to preserve the complete interview here).  I'll include a copy of the edited interview video with the photos below too:

Interview of Beverly Frances Monk Spohr, 2008

(My maternal grandmother).

https://youtu.be/sY55xB9xRnY

Interview of Beverly Monk Spohr, 2014

(My maternal grandmother).  Interviewed in San Diego, California the home of her daughter, Amy Spohr Chidester.  Interviewed by two of her children, Amy Spohr Chidester & John Spohr.

https://youtu.be/xIBmbY0owwo

Interview of Carl Spohr Jr, May 2002

(My maternal grandfather).  Interviewed in his home in Lee's Summit, Missouri by his granddaughter, Stephanie Chidester.

https://youtu.be/cv7Uynlfggk

Interview of Carl John Spohr Jr

(My maternal grandfather).  [Date unknown].  The numbers referred to in this interview correlate to numbers written on the back of some old family photographs which are now in the possession of Amy Spohr Chidester.

https://youtu.be/ZeqJn3VFYLQ

Interview of Robert Wilson Monk & Frances Olive Dick Monk, 1982

(My maternal great grandparents).  Interviewed by their granddaughter Amy Spohr Chidester, & her husband Steven Chidester.

https://youtu.be/4huYm9q0D08

Carl Spohr & Beverly Monk's college graduation

(My maternal grandparents).  I thought I'd also include this old video recording here too.  My Uncle David found this old film reel of his parents' several years ago and had it digitized.

https://youtu.be/SF9eUVDfIG4

My Dad's Side of the Family:

Interview of Faun Moore Chidester, 2009

(My paternal grandmother).  Interviewed in her home in West Valley City, Utah by her granddaughter, Stephanie Chidester Bradshaw.

https://youtu.be/6u8WJ16IBJU

Christmas 1982

My first Christmas -- Stephanie Chidester with her parents, Amy & Steven Chidester, and her paternal grandparents, Faun & John Chidester.

https://youtu.be/5cRw3lMBIQ0

John Leo Chidester funeral slideshow

(My paternal grandfather).

https://youtu.be/7-lHD79FykE

My Husband's Family:

Lillie Anne Young Bradshaw's funeral slideshow

(My husband's paternal grandmother).

https://youtu.be/b86tAXDMCuo

I've spent a major amount of time over the last month or two trying to get all our family videos backed up & organized.  (This all started as a way to get everything organized as I've been doing the fun & lengthy project of making family video compilations, which I'm still actively working on now that I've finally gotten them all organized).  But another reason I wanted to get everything organized was to be able to share the videos that I have of family history interviews of my grandparents & great grandparents.  I had a variety of types of files -- a few audio recordings that were recorded on casette tapes years ago by my parents with their parents/grandparents, and others that were video recordings that I had done with my grandparents & one of my great grandmas a few years ago.  There's even one audio recording of Christmas morning in 1982 (my first Christmas), where you can hear my parents and my dad's parents talking on it (this happens to be the only one of these recordings that has my Grandpa John's voice on it, so that's nice to have).  And there's another old audio recording of my parents doing an interview of my mom's maternal grandparents, Mamaw & Bampaw (Bob & Frances Monk) -- unfortunately the audio quality gets really poor at parts of that recording, almost to the point of not being able to make out what was being said.  But I figured it was worth preserving it, even with the poor audio quality, in hopes that we might be able to listen carefully to figure out what they were saying or maybe that there is a way to improve the sound quality in the future to be able to understand it all.  The video recording I did with my my Grandpa Carl was relatively short and was all one one video file, but the ones I did with each of my grandmas and Mamaw (my great grandma) were made up of multiple short video clip files.  So I set out to get them all backed up and to preserve them in a way that could easily be shared with others.  I decided to save them so that the interviews that consisted of several shorter video clips were all saved together as one larger file, and to make video files of all of them (even the ones that were only audio recordings).  So I popped the files into iMovie and added titles.  On the audio recordings I added a handful of photos to each one too.  And I saved those.  So now I have a file for each recording, and they've all been backed up.  I decided to share them on FamilySearch.org, and of course they don't accept video files, but they accept audio files -- I converted them to audio files, then I did some youtube learning for how to adjust the output settings in iTunes in order to save these files at a small enough file size that FamilySearch would allow me to upload them to their website, and I was able to get them all saved as audio files and uploaded to that site.  And I wanted to share them all here too, so I uploaded them to youtube so I could share the video links here on my blog.  (Oh, and I also included the two video files I had of my Grandpa John's and Michael's Grandma Bradshaw's funeral slideshows that I made down below).  Now, the next step is to go back and type up transcripts of what was said in each of these interviews -- I believe I already went back and did that with the video interview of Grandpa Carl, and I know we've started to do it with a couple of the other interviews, but that takes time -- maybe I can get my boys involved with helping type up the transcriptions.

Video of Grandma Bev

I've been working on putting together this video of my Grandma Bev for a while now, and was pleased to get it done last week so I could give it to my mom for her birthday.

Kolby's Genealogy Class Project

My oldest son, Kolby, took a genealogy elective class at school several months ago.  As part of the project he did, he talked to my husband and me, and each of our parents, and wrote little biographies of each of us.  And he made an online "book" with family photos.  

"I [Kolby Michael Bradshaw] was born on October 31st, 2003, in Provo Utah, Utah Valley Hospital. I lived there for about 9 months. I then moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U. S. I lived in an apartment 4 years. During this time, three of my four younger brothers were born. Elijah, Camden, and Isaac. I then lived with my great-grandma Faun in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. My youngest brother, Courtland, was born. After that, My family and I moved to Fairport, New York, U. S. for three years in our first house ever. Then we lived with my mom’s parents in San Diego, California, U.S.A. for about 9 months. We then got a house across the street from Del Sur Elementary where I went for two years and Moved to D39C for a year. I then Moved to a bigger house across the canyon and have lived there since. I am in 6th grade and twelve years old. I want to become a great coder when I grow up. I have made it into a MathCounts program.

Stephanie Lynn Chidester was born on Jan. 10 1982 in the Utah Valley Hospital. She has also lived in San Diego, coronado, nashville tennessee, provo utah, oklahoma, and texas. She went to Bernardo Heights Middle School. For high school she went to Rancho Bernardo High school. She went to college at Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho and at BYU. She also had a semester in Nauvoo. She met Michael Blair Bradshaw in BYU and was married to him on Dec. 27, 2002 in the Mormon San Diego Temple.

Michael Blair Bradshaw was born on Aug. 9, 1980 in the St. Luke's hospital in Salt Lake City. He has also lived in Taylorsville Utah, South Jordan Utah, and Boise Idaho. He served a mormon mission in the Dominican Republic at age 18. He went to middle school at South Jordan Middle School. He went to highschool at Bingham High School and Centennial High School. He then attended college at BYU where he met Stephanie Lynn Chidester. He got married to her on Dec. 27, 2002 in the Mormon San Diego Temple. Michael became an eagle scout at age 14.

Amy Lynn Spohr was born on Sep. 1 1957 in the St. Elisabeth Hospital in Granite City, Illinois. She never lived in Granite City because while her mom was pregnant they moved to St. Louis, Denver, Colorado but kept going to the doctor in Granite City. She also lived in Prairie Village, Kansas and Hawaii. She went Indian Hills Middle School. For High School she went to Shawnee Mission East High school. She went to BYU for college. She got married to Steven John Chidester on May 7, 1980 in the Salt Lake City Utah Mormon Temple.

Steven John Chidester was born on May 9, 1957 in the Utah Valley Hospital in Provo Utah. He has also lived in Heber, Utah and Hawaii. Steven went to Middle School at Wasatch Jr. High School. He went to Wasatch High School for High School, and went to BYU for College. He served a mormon mission in Brussels Belgium when he was eighteen. He was married to Amy Lynn Spohr on May 7, 1980 in the Salt Lake City Utah Mormon Temple.

Debra Kae McIntosh was born on Aug 17, 1958 in the LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City. She has also lived in Falls Church Virginia, South Jordan Utah, and Boise Idaho. She went to Middle School at Clayton Jr. High. Her High School was East High School. She attended College at Ricks College. She was married to Dick Michael Bradshaw on March 13, 1979 in the Salt Lake City Mormon Temple.

Dick Michael Bradshaw was born on Oct. 29 1955. In the LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City. He has also lived in Taylorsville Utah, South Jordan Utah, Louisiana, and in Boise Idaho. He went to Hillside Jr. High for Middle School, Hillside High School for High School, and BYU, University of Utah, where he got his Bachelor's Degree, University of Phoenix to get his master’s Degree. He also went to Institute of Internal Auditors and got his Internal Audit Certificate. At age eighteen he served a mormon mission in San Antonio Texas. Was married to Debra Kae McIntosh on March 13, 1979 in the Salt Lake City Mormon Temple."

Grandma Faun's 80th

My Grandma Faun was here visiting this weekend for my son, Camden's, baptism, and her 80th birthday happened to be on Saturday, the same day Camden was baptized.  We ended up throwing her a little surprise party on Sunday, and I made a slideshow of photos I had collected of her with her family and friends from throughout her life.  The slideshow turned out quite nice, but unfortunately I've had some computer issues and haven't been able to post the slideshow online.  So I thought I'd share just a few of the photos from it:

Faun Moore

Faun & her older sister, Gwen

Faun & her younger brother, Guy

Faun Moore

Faun

Faun Moore & John Leo Chidester's wedding:
James Parker Chidester, Eliza Lucinda "Cindy" Smith Chidester, Jean Chidester, John Leo Chidester, Faun Moore Chidester, Gwen Moore Allen, Avagail Taylor Moore, & Ivan "J" Moore

Faun & John Chidester

Faun with her parents, Ivan & Avagail Moore

John, Steven, & Faun Chidester (Steven is my dad)

Faun & Steven Chidester, and Ivan Moore

Faun, Guy, Gwen, Ivan, & Avagail Moore

Faun, Steven, & John Chidester after Steve came home from his mission

John Leo Chidester, Faun Moore Chidester, & Steven John Chidester,
Amy Lynn Spohr Chidester, Beverly Monk Spohr, & Carl John Spohr Jr.

Faun Chidester

Faun & Avagail

Faun, Steve, Amy, & Avagail

Faun with her three granddaughters: Me, Jennifer, & Michelle

John, Jennifer, Steve, Amy, Stephanie, Michelle, & Faun Chidester

Grandma Faun

Me with Grandma Faun on our East Coast trip when I was 13

Faun Moore Chidester & her niece, Dorthy Allen Evans

Faun on her family history mission

Faun Chidester, Stephanie Bradshaw, Amy Chidester, & Kolby Bradshaw (Faun's first great grandchild)

Jennifer, Michelle, & Matthew Chidester, Michael & Stephanie Bradshaw, Aaron Chidester,
Faun, Steven, & Amy Chidester, and Kolby Bradshaw

Faun & her oldest grandson, Matthew Chidester

Faun and her second great grandchild, Elijah Carl Bradshaw

Michelle, Amy, Steven, Jennifer, & Faun Chidester when Jennifer went on her mission

Faun with Michelle Marie Chidester Conde & Jon Jacob "Jake" Conde

Faun and her third great grandchild, Camden James Bradshaw 

Faun and her fourth great grandchild, Isaac Steven Bradshaw

Aaron, Jenna, & Faun Chidester

Faun, Stephanie, Jenna, Amy, Matthew, Steven, & Aaron

Gwen Moore Allen, Faun Moore Chidester, & Dorthy Allen Evans

Faun and her sixth great grandchild, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Faun Conde

Faun and her seventh great grandchild, Mercedes "Sadie" Louise Conde

Faun & Steven Chidester

Faun, Aaron, Matthew, Amy, & Steven Chidester, when Matthew returned from his mission

Matthew, Steve, Faun, Aaron, Jenna, & Amy Chidester

Grandma Faun at the "Mud Caves," Anza Borego Desert, California

Jennifer, Steve, Aaron, & Faun Chidester reading our traditional family Christmas Eve stories at the cabin

Faun with her eighth great grandchild, Jon Robert "Robbie" Conde

Faun and her fifth great grandchild, Courtland Matthew Aaron Bradshaw

Faun with her youngest grandson, Aaron Jaimeson Chidester, at his high school graduation

Gwen & Faun

Faun & Michelle Marie Chidester Conde

Faun & Steve in Rome

Faun in Italy, 2013

Faun at Whitney Zacherson's wedding, with Guy & Gwen and their descendants

Faun & Jennifer Leigh Chidester

Grandma

Faun, Dorthy, & Gwen

Amy, Steven, & Faun Chidester in Italy