Whitcomb Bluebook
Brevard, Transylvania County, North Carolina
| About WBlueBook.com |
| The "W" in WBlueBook.com stands for our name, Whitcomb. That part is easy to explain. |
| The "BlueBook" portion takes a bit more explanation. No, it has nothing to do with the customary usage, as defined by Wikipedia: "Blue book ... It often refers to an almanac or other compilation of statistics and information." Nor does it relate to the single word, "Bluebook ... A Uniform System of Citation, a style guide, prescribes the most widely used legal citation system in the United States." |
| Rather, our use of the term "Blue Book" traces back to a 1977 Leinan Family Reunion held in Leinan, Saskatchewan, Canada. At that reunion Jim and his mother, Esther Leinan Whitcomb (1907-1992), had a collection of family genealogical information bound in a blue notebook. People kept asking, "Have you checked your family information in the Blue Book?" |
| The name stuck. Shortly after the reunion the information in that compilation was published as a book: The Blue Book: The Descendants of Anders Olsen Oplandsplads and the First Leinan Reunion (1978). Since then we registered the WBlueBook.com site and have used it as our family web presence. |
As for the logo, hopefully you see the "W" for Whitcomb. The "J" and
"B" are for our first names, Jim and Brenda. Jim has used a monogram,
or brand, of his initials,  , since he was in high school.
After marriage it only seemed natural to develop a monogram for the two of us. |
| Look for additions over the coming years. Jim would like to add stories, a blog of sorts. But will many actually get added? Time will tell. Much of our life seems guided by the phrase "Slow and Sure," our bowling team name many years ago when we were novices. So it will likely be that the changes made here may be "slow and sure." |
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