Baking from scratch has always been one of my passions. Cut-out sugar Christmas cookies were always high on the list. I had a large collection of cookie cutters, the good ones that were metal and cut through the dough very nicely. I loved to make cookies when I still lived with my parents and continued […]
My plan for this December is to be a better participant in the Geneabloggers Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories. This will be a way for me to tell my children and grandchildren about Christmas in my youth and to remind them about some wonderful Christmases in their past. I grew up in a rambler on […]
It’s the time of year when genealogists salivate about all the relatives they see on the various holidays. I thought about something this morning and realized I am guilty of neglecting someone very important. That would be me. Will my descendants know about my first bike, the places I lived, my elementary and high schools […]
100 years from now a family genealogist is looking at a family group sheet posted on whatever the technology of the day is. The first thing the budding genealogist notices is that somehow in the one ancestral family branch the father, mother, and child have all been given the same day of birth, November 24th. […]
I have presented all-day seminars or lectured at genealogy conferences or institutes in 32 U.S. states plus the District of Columbia. South Carolina is included in that number but that won’t be factual until May for the NGS Conference in Charleston. So far, I have not had the opportunity to do such presentations in 18 […]
In the summer of 2009 I was fortunate to be in two more states, Maine and New Hampshire. I have now visited all of the mainland 48 states. I have not been to Hawaii or Alaska and I hope to do so! I thought about this recently as one of my nephews asked me about […]
A nice press release just received from FamilySearch! A Lot to Be Thankful For: 15 Million New Indexed Genealogical Records November 17, 2010 Digital images and indexes include 34 collections from 13 countriesThe collection of indexes and images available on FamilySearch’s beta website continues to grow by leaps and bounds, with the addition of 34 […]
Are you getting ready for Thanksgiving and all the holidays that follow in the next several weeks? Don’t forget to prepare some oral history questions to ask the relatives. I have some questions to ask the women in your family. Pick two or three to ask during dinner. To add more to the flavor of […]
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Today was spent at a client’s home. We were doing some organizing and research planning. This made me think of a column I wrote for Ancestry’s old electronic newsletter a few years ago. I reread and updated it and present it here as some food for thought. The following words are based on the premise […]