2009 OC Race for the Cure • Sept. 27, 2009 • Newport Beach Friday, September 25, 2009

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We are run/walking in OC at Fashion Island this year! Come out and join us!

Come celebrate 18 years of raising funds and awareness for the movement to end breast cancer forever. Join more than 30,000 participants coming together as a living testament to the power of individuals to impact the world.

You can run or walk the 5K route, or even sleep your way toward the cures. One of the best ways to impact the movement to end breast cancer forever is to fundraise for the Orange County Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure as part of your participation in the Race for the Cure.

75% of funds raised stay in Orange County to fund screening, treatment and education programs – including mammograms. 25% goes directly to the Komen Award and Research Grant Program to fund global grants to discover the cures.

Mailed Donations Should Be Sent To:

Time Management
Attn: 2009 Orange County Race for the Cure
P.O. Box 131314
Carlsbad,CA 92013

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Flying in a Fancy Plane Thursday, September 17, 2009

On Tuesday, I was at the Oakland airport ... and as typical, I was looking out the window, waiting for my plane to arrive at the gate. I was in for a real treat!

Instead of the usual beige Southwest 737 plane .... a really special airplane came up - the Illinois One - a plane painted with a rendition of the eagle from the Illinois state flag to honor that state.

Southwest Airlines unveiled this plane in April of 2008 to celebrate its relationship with Chicago and the State of Illinois since its first flight from Chicago Midway in 1985.

From the Southwest press release on April 14, 2008, "The newest aircraft in the Southwest Airlines fleet is truly a work of labor and art, requiring 26 people at the Boeing Company working three shifts over the course of six days to paint. Over 93 gallons of paint and 10 different colors make up Illinois One. "

"Illinois One joins twelve other 737s in Southwest's fleet that carry a unique paint scheme: Arizona One, California One, Lone Star One (Texas), Nevada One, New Mexico One, Maryland One, three Shamu aircraft (SeaWorld), Silver One (celebrating Southwest's 25th anniversary), Triple Crown One (recognizing Southwest's top rankings for ontime performance, baggage handling, and Customer satisfaction), and Slam Dunk One (tribute to the {SW}-NBA partnership)."

Here's a link to a 2 minute video showing the assembly, painting, and unveiling of the craft: video

Interestingly, Southwest also took delivery of Boeing's

5,000th

737 airplane in Renton, Washington in February 2006.

Guinness World Records has acknowledged the 737 as the most-produced large commercial jet airplane in aviation history.

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Ehretsmans from Alsace-Lorraine Monday, September 7, 2009

(photo of Colmar, Alsace, France)

Yesterday I had the privilege to review some documentation handed down in the Ehretsman Family. While the document had no date nor identified author, it was written by someone who was close to Ehretsman Family, both the generation born in the 1830s and that born in the 1850s. The document was typed and in blue ink (like those old pre-copier mimeograph copies). Was the document written in the 1970s?

In this document, the author detailed the birth and death dates of each family member, as well as place of birth and location of burial in the US!.... This document claimed that Barbara Ehretsman and many of the Ehretsman children were born in Kolmar, Alsace-Lorraine.

Today, Colmar is spelled with a "C" and is part of Alsace and the Haut-Rhin department of France.

It is really great news to find out the family is from this village as it was founded in the 9th Century ... so there may be records that date back to the 1500s that are easily traceable!

I had the good luck to visit Colmar in 1989. It is the wine capital of Alsace; its beautiful half-timber houses can be found on the famous Alsatian wine route that I have traveled many times. Colmar is connected to the Rhine River by a canal.

Colmar is also the location of a "Colmar Treasure" ... a cache of Jewish jewelery and coins that was hidden in a wall during the time of the Black Death and found in 1863. Today that treasure is housed in the Cluny Museum in Paris (my all time favorite museum!!!)

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Zieglers in PA versus Zieglers in WI Thursday, September 3, 2009

I read somewhere that men with German ancestry fall into one of the three majors Germanic groups/tribes labeled I1, R1, and R2 in the genealogical genetics world. (TBR) Which group do my ancestors fall into? One way to find out is to take a DNA test; which we did and have the results for now. I learned something interesting today while looking at our Ziegler surname page.....

My ancestors fall in the Haplogroup "I1" and they came to Wisconsin. We know there are also many Zieglers in Pennsylvania. From the limited number of samples to date, most of them fall in the Haplogroup "R1". From this, we can infer that there is no relationship between my ancestors and those who settled in Pennsylvania.

As more samples become available (aka more people take genealogical DNA tests)... this inference will have to be re-evaluated.

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