+Genealogy+Trading+Card.jpg) |
| Created at: Big Huge Labs |
I present to you a Genealogy Trading Card for my fearless great-grandmother whom I've yet to feature in this inspirational series inspired by +Lisa Alzo's, The Accidental Genealogist. The main reason I neglected Mollie Bogdanow is that I know very little about her. She was born in 1886 in Austria-Hungary. According to her death certificate, she died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Houston, Texas on February 23, 1952. My mother was less than four years old at the time and has little recollection of her grandmother. Mollie immigrated to the US sometime around 1900-1902 (1920 and 1930 US Census respectively). She married my great-grandfather Abe Bogdanow in 1911 in New York. He was an upholster. The lived in the city at least until 1915, where they appear on the State Census living on Amsterdam Avenue. In 1920 they relocated their young family to Jersey City, New Jersey. They parented two children, Gwen and Morris (my grandfather). They moved to Texas around 1943, I assume to be closer to their children and grandchildren. Mollie's native language was German. She spoke English with a strong accent, but read and wrote English well. She had a reputation of being an excellent cook. According to my uncle Larry she went away from home at a young age to study to be a chef.
This is a nice card. It is amazing to me how much these little tidbits of life can mean to us.
ReplyDeleteSo true! It amazes me how for so long, many of these details do not mean much or we take them for granted and often when we come to appreciate, they remain so hidden, almost lost. I love the process of going from so little, to discovering a much larger part of the story!
DeleteI see four people in the photo, two of them reflected in the tabletop. Which one is Mollie? I'm guessing the one on the far right, just from the ages of the people. This isn't the first great cook in your family, is it? There was a Minnie Crane . . . was she the one with the great coffee cake??
ReplyDeleteI probably should have been clearer, this is a photo of Abe and Mollie with their two children, Morris and Gwen. I don't have a better photo of Mollie and none of her alone. I have a few of her much older but they are of very poor resolution and they are group photos as well.
DeleteMollie is my maternal grandfather's mother. Minnie was my maternal grandmother's mother. They were in-laws and clearly knew each other. Mollie moved to Houston around the time Minnie lost her first husband. She is not the cook I mentioned in the earlier post from the coffee cake recipe. You have a great memory Mariann!
"Liquid gold" - what a fantastic description of a much-loved recipe. You say you don't know much about Mollie, but I'd argue you know a lot! The QUALITY of details more than makes up for the number of facts.
ReplyDeleteIt's true Wendy, there is a lot of quality detail there about Mollie.When I said I don't know much, I was comparing to how much I know about my other great-grandmother whom I knew well personally and in addition I discovered her memoirs years later. I remain "hungry" for information about Mollie and for her chicken soup!
Delete