The Geni Family Tree

If you aren't already a member of Geni, I highly recommend you join.  The free site already has nearly 200 of our family members connected!  It's a great way to see everyone and remind you of just how many of us there are!!!

Here's a direct link to my Geni profile which will let you join.

June and Carl from the "Bach-Kieber-Pearson" collection

Tuesday
May252010

Welcome Family and Friends.

Hi and welcome to my blog.  In case you don't already know, we've moved yet again.  This time we left Brooklyn and moved to South Carolina.  Plus we're engaged!!  If you're trying to get a hold of me, click the contact section above.  You can call me, text, IM, etc all from the page.

Please take a few moments to look around my blog as there are quite a few articles and interesting pictures.  I have more photo albums that I'll be adding soon, but the site has many of the papers and articles I've published over the last 10 years or so.  

This section most likely won't be of interest to you unless you're related to the Kieber/Bach family.  However, I highly recommend everyone take the time to get the stories recorded.

Monday
May242010

The Nanny Tapes 

Sometime in 2002 I was working for Anadarko Petroleum in the suburbs of Houston, Texas.  At the time I had a great apartment in NYC that I would not give up, so I was commuting from NYC to Houston Monday to Friday.  Basically I'd fly home on the weekends.

During that time I had the idea to buy Nanny a simple tape recorder with a microphone.  The idea was to give her a medium to easily record all her stories and family history so we'd never lose them.  She ended up recording a little over 100 minutes worth of audio in three sessions.

For a variety of reasons I just now managed to convert the audio tapes to MP3 files, the first recording links are below.  Over the next few weeks I'll remaster the files, remove as much of the audio hiss and crackling as possible without degrading her voice, and repost the new versions.

In the meantime, these are links of Nanny telling some of the family history:

Click the below buttons to stream the nanny tapes:

Tape 1

Tape 2

Tape 3

Click these links to download the MP3s and save them locally.  

Nanny Tape 1 - Ancestry

Nanny Tape 2 - Heritage

Nanny Tape 3 - Short