The genealogy vacation extravaganza continues! Today I spent my time at the Nashville Public Library in their Nashville Room. I came to realized I’d seriously underappreciated the resources in the Nashville Room for I learned today much more about their holdings. As with yesterday, everything I gathered today will eventually go to the TNGenWeb & […]
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Today was the start of my 2 week vacation and you know how I spent it? Like any true genealogist – in the library :-). I visited the Tennessee State Library & Archives to gather information to share on the TNGenWeb & NCGenWeb sites in which I participate/ccordinate. I also pulled a couple of obituaries
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This weekend I traveled to Washington D.C. for a professional conference. My trip was short, but I did get to spend most of the day Friday at the Library of Congress (LOC). I’ve been to LOC before as a visitor/tourist, so I didn’t feel compelled to take many pictures. I’d not been as a user
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How can you resist reading a fiction mystery book that begins with a family tree? Last week on a trip to Target I was browsing the paperbacks for a book to read and saw The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I’ve been keeping my eye on the run of the movie ever since reading Eastman’s
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On Friday, May 14th, I received my Masters of Public Health degree from Vanderbilt University. I blogged about it on my family blog if you’re interested in reading the details, but I was prompted by this recent milestone to tell my stories about my previous graduations. ‘Tis the season for graduations after all right? Forgive
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I’ve discovered that my genealogy blog was featured on MyHeritage.com’s Top 100 Genealogy Sites. How very cool! They purposely sought to highlight lesser known blogs. Their criteria were 1) high quality content 2) originality in topic choice, approach and design; and 3) frequently updated I’m honored to be on the list and I look forward
I posted this on the NCGenWeb blog, but I wanted to do a quick mention here too. I recently learned that back in March, Google implemented a browse feature in Google News Archive that now makes it much easier to determine what issues of a specific paper have been digitized. So far, I’ve made a
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This afternoon, one of my genea-buddies posted a blog post about the benefits of joining a genealogy society. She notes that membership of gen societies are down and ponders how more genealogists can be recruited to join & she offers great examples of how mutually beneficial the relationship can be. As I read her post,
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Thanks to the generosity of another researcher with family ties to Washington County, NC, I now have pictures of one of the most important cemeteries in my family research. The cemetery is the Rufus McNair Cemetery of Plymouth, North Carolina. I first learned of this cemetery in 2006 and was thrilled then to know of
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Today on her AnceStories blog, Miriam gave me a shout-out in reference to sharing directories added to the Internet Archive (IA). Thanks Miriam for the mention. It prompted me to write this post to share the fact that I’ve been subscribing to IA feeds for several months now and I find it an easy
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