Comments on: Gee, Mom, How’d You Get So Smart? http://stephendanko.com/blog/2008/05/15/gee-mom-howd-you-get-so-smart/ Documenting the Search for My Family History Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:59:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Wendy Littrell http://stephendanko.com/blog/2008/05/15/gee-mom-howd-you-get-so-smart/#comment-71164 Mon, 19 May 2008 12:32:29 +0000 http://stephendanko.com/blog/2008/05/15/gee-mom-howd-you-get-so-smart/#comment-71164 That's so cool reading about your mom working as clerk, keypunch operator, and computer operator! It would be interesting to read more about this if you find out exactly what type of business and job your mom had! That’s so cool reading about your mom working as clerk, keypunch operator, and computer operator! It would be interesting to read more about this if you find out exactly what type of business and job your mom had!

]]> by: Administrator http://stephendanko.com/blog/2008/05/15/gee-mom-howd-you-get-so-smart/#comment-70910 Sun, 18 May 2008 05:05:32 +0000 http://stephendanko.com/blog/2008/05/15/gee-mom-howd-you-get-so-smart/#comment-70910 Barbara, thanks for the suggestion. I'd like to get to Worcester this summer and, if I do, I'll put the American Antiquarian Society on my agenda. I have lots of questions about my ancestors' occupations and schooling that they may be able to help me answer. Jasia, I suspect the computers my Mom worked with were more like tabulating machines. Punch cards and tabulators were used to process the 1890 US Federal Census and continued to be used for many decades. Steve Barbara, thanks for the suggestion. I’d like to get to Worcester this summer and, if I do, I’ll put the American Antiquarian Society on my agenda. I have lots of questions about my ancestors’ occupations and schooling that they may be able to help me answer.

Jasia, I suspect the computers my Mom worked with were more like tabulating machines. Punch cards and tabulators were used to process the 1890 US Federal Census and continued to be used for many decades.

Steve

]]> by: Jasia http://stephendanko.com/blog/2008/05/15/gee-mom-howd-you-get-so-smart/#comment-70883 Sat, 17 May 2008 23:49:46 +0000 http://stephendanko.com/blog/2008/05/15/gee-mom-howd-you-get-so-smart/#comment-70883 Is that cool or what? Your mom working on computers back in the 1940s... amazing! I didn't even know they had computers back then. Great photos! Is that cool or what? Your mom working on computers back in the 1940s… amazing! I didn’t even know they had computers back then.

Great photos!

]]> by: Barbara P. http://stephendanko.com/blog/2008/05/15/gee-mom-howd-you-get-so-smart/#comment-70715 Sat, 17 May 2008 01:57:35 +0000 http://stephendanko.com/blog/2008/05/15/gee-mom-howd-you-get-so-smart/#comment-70715 Hi Steve, Have you thought to contact the American Antiquarian Society? It is a great place to do research. Have you been there? Anyway, I would think somebody there would know about Graton & Knight Company. Good luck. Hi Steve,
Have you thought to contact the American Antiquarian Society? It is a great place to do research. Have you been there? Anyway, I would think somebody there would know about Graton & Knight Company. Good luck.

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