The Lazy blogger is back,

It's allmost midsummer, and much colder than it should be this time of the year, today we reached 12C, forecast for tomorrow is 15C. Hopefully it'll be warmer on midsummer.
This year most of the Velhos will spend the midsummer in the archipelago of Uusikaupunki on the westcoast of Finland.
Velho is planing for the upcoming roof job, yes our old roof will get a makeup, this year the south side, and next year the north side. Either the first or the second weekend in july, there is a so called "talkoo" at Velhola, when the roof restauration takes place, so lets hope for a weekend without rain.

Yours truly,

The Lazy Blogger.

Visiting the Porvoo Museum

Dear readers,

On april 16 yours truly, Velho was visiting the Porvoo museum to have a look at their exhebition about what happend in 1809 when Finland and Sweden separated, and Finland became a Great Dutchy of Russia, which later was resulting in the independency of Finland.
The museum had an impressive collection of things and information on the event.

Today Velho also made some small updates to the Holms pages concerning our connection to the Calamnius family, these can be found on the descendants page of our family site.

Your lazy blogger

New chairman at www.bsbf.net

As I wrote previously:

::>Borgånejdens Släkt- och Bygdeforskare rf. Since two years ago I've been the chairman of this ::>association, hoping to pass it over to someone new and fresh tomorrow, lets see...

I could retire from the chairman post, and we got a new chairman Ulli Gabrielsson on the 26th of march, I'm happy to pass over the Assiciation to her.

The Lazy Blogger.

Hello all my readers,

I know your not many, because my lazyness to write more frequently, but anyway, here is the latest news.
I've been having genealogy as one of my hobbies for the last +-40 years. For the last eight years I've been a member of the Borgånejdens Släkt- och Bygdeforskare rf. Since two years ago I've been the chairman of this association, hoping to pass it over to someone new and fresh tomorrow, lets see...
Since the beginning of this year I am also involved in the Genealogical Society of Finland, as a deputy member of the board, and also as a member of the Work-Group and the IT Group. This gives me an more broad inside view of what's going on within the field in our country. I can see that there is a lot to do, to satisfy our members, but hopefully we can meet their exceptations, there is lots of work to do.
Adding to this, I'm also a special member of the Calamnius Family board since 2007. Now we're starting to plan for the upcoming Family reunion in 2010 when the Family Association celebrates its 60th anniversary. At the same time the Genealogical Society of Finland celebrates the 350th year of genealogical research in Finland.
All this ends up in lots of thinking, planning and acting to achive all goals for the year 2010 wich is special for both societies in many ways.
The national socities and the Calamnius socities main events will take place in the Helsinki area in the summer of 2010, stay tuned.

Your Lazy Blogger.

2009 started a while ago

Hi fellow readers,

As all can see, I'm really the lazy blogger. We're already into february, and it's my first post this year.

It's vinter, dark and cold (cold means belowe +15 C for me), a good reason to stay inside and concentrate on genealogy.

During the last few weeks I've got a whole bunch of new members collected into the Holm family on the Franck branch, this wouldn't have been possible without the forum of the Genealogical Society in Finland.
I posted a query, and voilá, got answers, and hints where to continue searching. As a result I now have a few generations more on that branch, have a look at the descendants of Anna Maria Holm

Because of the winter time, I've also done some research on a possible vacation trip south to warm and sun. Nothing specific yet, but target is either the south of Hungary next september, or Sorrento in Italy. Let's see what I can come up with.

Lasse

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all.

Middleage! or Old?

Today I was watching the World Music Award on the TV, it's been a few years since I last saw the program.

I have to admire the artists for their perfomances, and talents.

But what's amazing me, is the change in how they classifie music today, compared to, about five decades ago. Can you imagine that just in the midle of the sixties R&B was synonymous to The Rolling Stones, and now the Worls Music Award in the same class goes to Alicia Keys??
Ok! I know that the world is changing, and faster that I can hang on with.

I remember when in the middle of the sixties, my favourite piece of music was the House of the Rising Sun with The Animales, later on this was to become one of the songs I collected, every version that I could find with any band in the world. The Animals was introduced into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. But it took fourteen more years before my favourite band was introduced, The Ventures, that made numerous different versions of that traditional masterpiece.


The theme of the song is marvelous, I can easily make an halfhour jamsession around the theme, and I often do with my old Hagstrom II guitar from the sixties, now even more often after the restoration of the guitar. I managed to find allmost all parts in orginal, last spring when I restuarated the guitar as near to orginal as possible.
The Hagstrom II guitar is absolutely the most easy and the fastest guitar to play, I have tried all the other big brands also.

I personally bought my Hagstrom II from the Hagstrom store in Stockholm, Sweden in 1971, and was informed that the one I bought was the last one of the production year 1965 that was on sale. Here is a picture before the restauration in 2008, 43 years after the production.

The Hagstrom Guitar has been reborn, but havn't had the opportunity to try one yet.

These are thoughts and memories from my lifetime and love to music.

Your Lazy Blogger wishes all of you,

a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Lasse