Head on over to my post @ the NCGenWeb project website for more information about the NC State Library’s NC Newspaper Digitization Project. They announced it today and this North Carolinian is too excited!
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In this installment of the Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories, our daily prompt is “Christmas Gifts.” Today, I’d like to share two pictures of me with some of my Christmas gifts First, here I am in 1980 when I was 5 years old. I remember getting this needlework set and I just loved it! I
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I’m in the middle of working on a presentation that I have due tomorrow, but I had to take a break to do this post before I forget about it. So, today I’m in the car on the way home listening to my first Genealogy Guys Podcast. A few minutes into it, I learn from
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This is another post for my Advent of Christmas Calendar Memories. Here on Day 6, the prompt is as follows: Did you ever send a letter to Santa? Did you ever visit Santa and “make a list?” Do you still believe in Santa Claus? I don’t know if I’ve ever written a letter to Santa,
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I’ve never participated in the Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories before, so this will be fun for me this year. I won’t be doing all the days, but I’ll do some as I can. I am beginning to get in the Christmas spirit as I look at some of my old pictures, so this should
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I know I shouldn’t be shopping for me, but, an opportunity presented itself to me this afternoon and I could not say no. Background: Last week I emailed a co-worker of mine who has years of photography experience to ask a question. I wanted to know how I could rig a set-up like this. so
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Oooh – this is the ultimate of cool. Okay, so I spent my Thanksgiving night in complete geekdom, but I’m loving it! Tonight, I made one of my websites smartphone compatible! One of my genea-duties (is that a word?) is serving as the webmaster for the NCGenWeb project. I became webmaster in July and have
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Have you ever been on an aircraft carrier?? I had a chance to visit one this past week during a recent trip to San Francisco. I was in the city for academic reasons (attending the American Medical Informatics Association annual conference), but since I’d found out in May that the USS Hornet was now a
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It’s been quiet lately here on my blog. My schooling has been full force these past few weeks, so I don’t have a lot of spare time to blog. But, I did want to do a quick post to give a quick tip. Tonight, Randy did a blog post on Eastman’s new GenQueries site. In
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Meet Ella. Ella was the daughter of Sophie Napier Watkins (1854-1917). Sophie was a cook at Helen Keller’s home. For the past couple of years, I’ve been working off an on with family members of Ella & Sophie to determine if I could help document the family oral history that they were related to James
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