My volunteer activities with the national USGenWeb Project brings me great satisfaction as, through it, I am able to help others in their genealogy research. If you are not familiar with the project, through the generous time donations of hundreds of volunteers, we have websites with free genealogy resources for all 3,000+ counties in the […]
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I distinctly remember the day in the 10th grade when I decided I would apply to go to the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (nickname: Science & Math). We were living in Charlotte, and I was browsing materials I’d picked up at school during a college fair. The NCSSM brochure looked appealing and
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Between 2013-2015, one of the side projects I started was to create a master index of names that appeared in Loose Estate Files of North Carolina. The North Carolina Genealogical Society partnered with FamilySearch to help index the names that appeared in the files so that they could then become searchable on the FamilySearch website. Well,
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A couple of weeks ago I shared that I’d joined the Guild of One-Name Studies. This is Week 6 of Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks series and how apropos that this week’s prompt is “Favorite Name.” Guess what name I choose? KOONCE! A perfectly timed prompt for launching my new site dedicated
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Yesterday, I was delighted to present a session on Researching African American Family History & Genealogy on behalf of the Nashville Chapter of the Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society. This is our fourth year partnering with Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage to conduct part of their Black History Month programming and it went well! We had a
In the Census: I’m Ready for 1950 Read More »
This weekend I joined the Guild of One-Name Studies and I am ecstatic! I’ve had my eye on the Guild for a few years because I do research on families with my Koonce surname – whether related to me or not. I have a research database full of Koonce families and I actively use FamilySearch
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It’s Week 3 of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks series and this week’s prompt is “Longevity.” For this prompt, I decided to check my genealogy database and find the longest-living person. I use TNG: The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding for my primary software program and it is easy to run statistics and find the longest-living
The Longest Living Person in My Genealogy Database: Zeola L. Portis Read More »
Just a tad bit late, here is my second post up for the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks series. The Week 2 prompt is “Favorite Photo,” but rather than sharing a specific photo from my family history, I want to share an organizational strategy I’m using as I continue my mission to get my photos
Upending Google Photos: An Organizational Strategy for Digital Photos Read More »
As Amy Johnson Crow begins her 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks series this year, I finally decided to take the plunge and participate! The goal of the series is to do something with the genealogy research that I, and so many others, obsess about 🙂 ; to make it more interactive and dynamic than just
Our Visual Address History Read More »
Note: This post is updated as of November 18, 2018, to reflect changes I have made in my strategies. A couple of days ago, I posted an update on my 2017 New Year’s resolutions; particularly, my work to organize my physical photo collection. Throughout this year, I’ve also been working on my digital photo organization
Tech Tuesday: My Digital Photo Organization Read More »