Sunday, June 8, 2008

No Place Else by Floyd Wesley Brosman

Floyd Wesley Brosman has written a sensitive and moving memoir "told in short stories and based on true events" about growing up in the cotton fields and labor camps of southern California during the 1930s and 1940s, a hard life for any child but for a skinny little boy whose severe hearing loss was at times ignored and other times ridiculed this life was terribly painful. Wes has described these years with humor and irony, the same attitude which helped him survive and eventually thrive. Today he lives in Washington state and devotes much of his time to being an activist and advocate for the handicapped.

Since this is a genealogy website I should explain Wes's relationship to the rest of us. He is the third-born child of Ola Mae Smith Brosman and Virgil Wesley Brosman. Ola was a daughter of Thomas Alvin Smith and a granddaughter of William Franklin Smith.

To order this book contact Wes Brosman at wesbro@olynet.com "No Place Else" retails for $18.00 - ISBN: 978-0-9815220-0-5

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

The Smith Family Curse



"THE SMITH FAMILY CURSE"


by Mary R. Simms


143 YEARS & SIX GENERATIONS OF DOCUMENTED

HEREDITARY HEARING LOSS

1865---2008



ONE COMMON ANCESTOR AND HIS

270+ DESCENDANTS TRACED


DIAGNOSIS: DFNA

AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT NONSYNDROMIC HEARING LOSS


ALSO DIAGNOSIS: DFNA1

GREATER HEARING LOSS IN LOWER FREQUENCIES


TWO CASES OF

SUSPECTED SPONTANEOUS MUTATION


All Inquiries Welcomed


OVER 100 PAGES OF RESEARCH


For further information, please contact mrsimms@peoplepc.com