{"id":3026,"date":"2013-03-05T16:12:19","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T16:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=3026"},"modified":"2013-03-05T16:12:19","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T16:12:19","slug":"record-your-family-stories-how-did-your-parents-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/record-your-family-stories-how-did-your-parents-meet.html","title":{"rendered":"Record Your Family Stories: How Did Your Parents Meet?"},"content":{"rendered":"

How did your parents meet? My Dad told me recently how he met Mom over 70 years ago\u00a0at the University of New Hampshire.<\/p>\n

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Tom Kemp’s parents Bill and Ellie. Photo from the author’s collection.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The students were going to Thanksgiving dinner. Since it was a special occasion, they had the men and women eat together. They each filed in separately, sat down\u2014and there she was, his bride-to-be, seated across the table from him! It happened again the next month. For Christmas the same process took place and in they filed, separately: men on one side and the women on the other. And there she was again, seated directly across from him! Given their series of serendipitous encounters they knew their love was meant to be and a courtship began. When the nation was attacked at Pearl Harbor, my Dad enlisted. Following World War II they married\u2014and a few weeks ago they celebrated their 68th wedding anniversary.<\/p>\n

Newspapers have preserved the stories of our lives\u2014including Bill Nye\u2019s interesting story of when he first met his parents.<\/p>\n

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Jackson Citizen Patriot (Jackson, Michigan), 12 June 1885, page 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mid-1800s American humorist and newspaper columnist Edgar Wilson Nye, aka Bill Nye, remembered the day when he first met his parents\u2014\u201ca casual meeting\u201d that over the years forged itself into a \u201cpowerful bond\u201d between his parents and himself. Read his poignant and humorous account here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/12wNaMx<\/a><\/p>\n

Bill Nye was having fun with his audience, but it does raise the question: how did you meet the family members you love? And how did they meet? How did your parents meet?<\/p>\n

Record your family stories, and pass them on to the rising generation.<\/p>\n

And share your family stories with us. Tell us how your parents or grandparents met, or when you first met your parents, in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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