Reposting ~ If I Were a Man, and Wore a Cowboy Hat

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 25 (EARLIEST)


For this week's prompt of EARLIEST I am reposting the first genealogical related blog I posted in 2014. 

I started my blog a few months earlier for a work tech challenge. I decided to set it up initially in a way that it could evolve to a genealogical blog. It wasn't until I signed up for this challenge that the initial plan came to fruition. 

I am grateful to Amy Johnson Crow (link to her page at the bottom) for helping me move into a committed relationship with my blog. 

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September 25th 2014

Recently a coworker (for privacy sake lets call her Kelly) emailed me letting me know that if I were a man and wore a cowboy hat I would look just like Clint Walker as he appeared on the front of the tv series Cheyenne Season 1.  

I promptly ordered in season 1 of the tv series from my library, and realized she is right.  

The why and wherefores of the mystery of my paternal grandfather is too big for just one blog entry. For this entry I will share that there is a missing 10 years from the time he left his family in Saskatchewan (with name #1) and when he met my grandmother in Calgary (with name #2).

If there was no mystery surrounding this one relative I might not be left wondering if I could be related to this actor. But since I know this, and many other mysteries, I am left truly wondering - could we be related.  


My grandfather would have only been 17 when Norman Eugene Walker (better known as Clint Walker) was born, but the time of his birth fits into the missing 10 years. My quick online research reveals a twin sister, but no mention of other siblings or parents.

Then again - the library copy has shortened the cover and Clint Walker doesn't actually look like the cowboy on the front of the dvd cover either. I think we can call this mystery resolved - I am not a man, I don't own a cowboy hat, and this is not my relative.

source:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047720/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

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Looking back to the beginning to get direction to go forward. 

This is why I search - 

Cause ... 

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