Historic Fieg Photos Available On-Line

Great news!  Don Roman has set up an account on Shutterfly containing scanned photos from the first four albums of historical Fieg photographs dating from the 1890s through 1994. 

The albums were created by the founder of the Fieg Family Newsletter, V. P. Fieg.  He wanted to be sure these treasured images and other documents were preserved and, since this was way before anyone ever even dreamed of something like Shutterfly, affixing the actual photos to construction paper, punching holes and putting them into a notebook was the most cutting-edge method of preservation available.

You can see the faces from the past that look like the faces of today, use it as a great resource for a school project or just take a walk down Memory Lane.

Our thanks go to Don and brother John Roman for their dedication in scanning the 300+ pages and transferring them to the cloud-based storage site for our enjoyment, and the pleasure of future Fieg generations!

If you need one, create an account with Shutterfly.  This is a free service, though photos can be ordered and printed from the website at a competitive price. Better yet, they can be downloaded to your computer for free.   Once the home page pops up, click on the 2016-03-20 link. 

After some brief experimentation, your editor found that, to see the photos at full-screen size, you need to click on "slideshow," then click the pause button (two vertical bars in the circle) and last click on "full screen" at the top right.  You can scroll through the pictures at your own pace using the arrows to the right and left of the photo.

Many pages have multiple pictures on them  When they are downloaded to your computer they are saved as jpg files which are easily edited, cropped and saved individually.

Here is the link to view all the pages of these tomes.  Enjoy a blast from the past!

Fieg_Historic_Photo_Albums
https://fieghistoricphotoalbums.shutterfly.com/

 

Maren Corkery Wins Scholarships, Prize

Maren Corkery of W. Oneonta, N.Y., eldest daughter of Kevin and Sarah Fieg Corkery, is contemplating accepting a scholarship to Northeast Catholic College in Warner, N.H.

The seventeen-year-old, who recently got her driver's license, wrote an essay which won her a $1,000 annual scholarship from the school and an all-expenses paid trip to the Dominican Republic, the home country of her great-grandmother Marina. Maren was one of six recipients.

She also has been offered a $9,000 annual scholarship from the college, a $5,000 home-school annual scholarship and a $3,000 annual scholarship from the St. John Newman Society.

Maren is also considering attending school in Virginia.

Maren's grandfather is Greg Fieg.

And Babies Make Three....

You editor belatedly announces a new addition to the Fieg family tree, and two more to come.

First, Laura and Chief Kasibante welcomed a new baby brother to keep big brother Maxwell company.  The Kasibantes came back to the U.S. last year for the birth, and stayed in Georgia with Laura's brother Brian and his family.  Judah Mwebaze made his appearance on July 18, 2015, less than a month after his parents celebrated three years of wedded bliss.

The family returned to Uganda in September and, though the fall of 2015 saw some illnesses and even a hospitalization for Maxwell, they are now healthy and happy and working hard at the prayer center.  They have purchased more land and are building a larger facility, slated to cost $100,000, and donations toward that goal are welcome.  

Funds can be wired to Barclays Bank Uganda Ltd., Kampala; Swift code BARCUGKX; for the HOPCCN - House of Prayer Community Church, Nkumba, account 6004755837, Branch Plot 32 Luwum St., P.O. Box 2971, Kampala, Uganda.  You can see the construction progress at www.houseofprayermkumba.com.

 

The "two more to come" to which your editor alluded in the first sentence are also boys! 

The first, due in May 2015, will be Laura's nephew, son of Brian and Emily Fieg.  From the photo below, you can see that the reaction of the baby's brother, Caleb, is quite different from that of his sister, Lily.  (Greg Fieg is also elated that another male Fieg twig is sprouting on the family tree!)

In a November 2015 email to her Aunt Sue Williams, Emily writes, "Caleb is really starting to use advanced sentences.  He can count to 10 and identify all numbers 9-0.  He is almost able to do 10-20, too.  He can also say the whole alphabet.  We are in the process of potty training....  As soon as he can go without an accident for 2 weeks we will be enrolling him in preschool.  He is growing up so fast!

"And speaking of fast, Lily had grown immensely in the last 4 months.  When she turned 1 she wasn't saying any words, wasn't walking without support and only had 2 teeth.  Now she says more than 20 words, is walking and running and climbing like a pro and has 11 teeth.  She loves shoes more than anything and knows how to throw a heartbreaking tantrum when she doesn't get her way.  

"They love each other so much and enjoy making each other laugh, especially at meal time."

  
The second baby boy will be Greg's fourth grandson and child number 9 for Sarah and Kevin Corkery.   The due date is in June.  The new baby will be the third boy in that family.  The baby's father is partial to the name Daniel, though a final decision has not yet been made.

The Corkerys are planning for radical logistical alterations to make room for this ninth child who, in essence, will replace his eldest sister, Maren, when she goes off to college in the fall.  The baby's  siblings, in addition to Maren, 17 are Colette, 14, Grace, 11, Karoline, 9, Frances, 7, Sean and Seamus, 4, and Gemma, 2.