{"id":3701,"date":"2023-03-30T08:06:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T12:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/?p=3701"},"modified":"2023-03-30T08:06:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T12:06:37","slug":"genealogy-find-original-beat-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/30\/genealogy-find-original-beat-boxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Genealogy Find: Original Beat Box(es)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/CoIj36Agy_u\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\">oriiginal human beat box <\/a>group.  Their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/CoIj36Agy_u\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\">vocal moves <\/a>are amazing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.atlcustoms.com\/goodgenes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/03\/mills-brothers-cover.jpg?w=600\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3706\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the benefits of researching our ancestors is the &#8220;find.&#8221;  In this case, find is pure gold through the super talented siblings who set the human &#8220;beat box&#8221; standards. They are the <a href=\"http:\/\/themillsbrothers.com\/phototour.html\">Mills Brothers<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While combing through the online ancestry files of the Good Genes Genealogy Services&#8217; grandfather, Eugene Owen, Jr., this remembrance was round.  Our grandfather left Omaha, Nebraska for Los Angeles, Calif. to pursue his dream of becoming a Mills Brother-like entertainer. It was the 1940s and he left a family behind in Omaha, including little girls who would grow up and become our mothers of Good Genes Genealogy Services team members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our grandfather&#8217;s goal was to form a singing group become as popular as the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Mills_Brothers\">Mills Brothers<\/a>, a musical team of siblings whose 40+ years of success began in the 1930s. Our grandfather never achieved the same fame. He likely broke the hearts of our grandmother, &#8220;Mama&#8221; Helen Wilkes Owen Douthy, and her children and other family members. There are joys and pains in researching our families&#8217; histories and this is an example of wading through all of the materials to get to the truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet, each time we hear the Mills Brothers&#8217; recordings and watch the more than 20 movies that they appeared in during their stellar career, we think of Grandpa Owen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the oriiginal human beat box group. Their vocal moves are amazing. One of the benefits of researching our ancestors is the &#8220;find.&#8221; In this case, find is pure gold through the super talented siblings who set the human &#8220;beat box&#8221; standards. They are the Mills Brothers. While combing through the online ancestry files [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[289,485,492,632,721],"class_list":["post-3701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancestral-historal","tag-african-american-history","tag-eugeneowenjr","tag-family-genealogy","tag-human-beat-boxes","tag-mills-brothers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}