I am 3 days into my daily video tips for preserving your family history and it’s been so much fun so far! Given that it is Preservation Week, this is the perfect opportunity to spread awareness for various things we can do when it comes to preserving our family history materials. It excites me to […]
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Each year in April, the American Library Association has National Preservation Week – a week designed to help share information and resources for preserving our collections. Much of the emphasis is on collections in libraries, museums, and archives, though of course, we all have collections in our homes too! Especially those of us with interests
Mini-Series Announcement – National Preservation Week Read More »
Wow. Today was a cool day! I was honored to be a guest at the ribbon cutting and grand opening of the NEW building of the Tennessee State Library & Archives. Tomorrow, the building officially opens to the public and that’s great news for Tennessee. As President of the Nashville Chapter of the Afro-American Historical
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Well, the day is here – it is “officially” the last day of the RootsTech Connect conference, the global family history event put on by FamilySearch. In years past, the conference has been a popular in-person event. I have not been able to attend in person, but I avidly followed along each year #NotAtRootsTech, trying
Let’s Crowdsource Newspaper Indexing – Let’s Do Good Together Read More »
Just back in June, I was elated to share the news that I’d been able to identify a set of my 5th great-grandparents. That finding was on my mother’s side of the family. And guess what? In the past week, I have identified TWO more sets of 5th-great-grandparents, this time, on my father’s side of
Another 5th Great-Grandparents Happy Dance! Read More »
Genealogy angels exist – they really do! Last night, I was visited by one. One of the family branches that I work quite actively on is my maternal grandmother’s family – the McNair family of Washington and Edgecombe counties in North Carolina. This branch is an active one – with reunions held every year since
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Are you a visual person? As much as I LOVE using digital products since they help me be more efficient, there are times when I like writing or drawing on paper. Why? Because it helps me VISUALIZE and SEE what I need as I approach my genealogy work. Here is an example: two days ago,
Meet the Weatherlys Read More »
I think that one day in another life, I could be on the radio – haha! Is it wrong of me to say that I really like how my voice sounds? In all seriousness, I am writing this because I have had the fortunate opportunity to be a guest on another podcast! Just this past
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“Family history and storytelling for everyone” – this is the tagline for FamilyScrybe™, a family history storytelling platform created by Allison Reid Peacock. I partnered with Allison a few months ago to contribute blog posts for the site and through this collaboration, I am honored to be Allison’s Assistant Editor-In-Chief for FamilyScrybe™ Magazine – a
FamilyScrybe™ Magazine – My Latest Contributions Read More »
Back in May, I did a blog post describing my approach to how I document place names in my family tree. I shared that I follow the conventions used by FamilySearch – primarily, to follow the format of (town/city) + (county) + (state) + (country). You can find that post here. I have been doing
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