I knew it was a mistake to get back on the computer after I *said* I was going to bed. But, I had to check the email and feed readers “one last time.” Well, now it’s going to cause me to be up long enough to do this blog post, but I couldn’t wait because what […]
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Tonight, my mother called me to inform me about the death of our cousin, Clifton E. Johnson Sr. Cousin Clif was my grandmother’s half-first cousin. Clifton represents my McNair family branch of Martin County, NC (which was one of the reasons I adopted that county for the NCGenWeb project). The closest ancestor that I share
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This week I had a short trip to Portland, Oregon for a conference associated with my current degree program. I’ve posted on my main family blog about the trip in general, but I am posting here about a mission I went on at the public library. On my way back from my meeting, I stopped
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Kaleya & her cousin (my brother’s eldest). She is 9 years and she is 4. I love how much alike they look and frankly, it amazes me sometimes.
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I am an avid user of Find-A-Grave. It makes it so easy to share internment information in a way that is very widely accessible. Whenever possible, I try to add to the site by photographing tombstones here in Nashville and adding records for people in my family trees and research projects based on death certificate
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A couple of days ago, I discovered a new genealogy blog – Robyn’s blog, Reclaiming Kin. I found her through Randy’s “Best Of the Genea-Blogs” post from Sunday. Well, yesterday she posted on using court records for research and her experience of looking at records in Edgecombe County, NC inspired my Tombstone Tuesday post of
This is my first Tombstone Tuesday post and since I had the perfect opportunity to do one, I thought I would. This is the tombstone of Kemp Plummer Battle Sr. Kemp was what you would call a “prominent” North Carolinian; he was highly active and involved in many matters of the state, including serving
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Earlier this week as I was reading Randy’s “Best of the Genealogy Blogs,” I checked out Amy of WeTree’s post on getting kids into the genealogy fix. In her post, Amy shares some wonderful suggestions for how to get kids involved with your genealogy efforts and shares some interesting experiences. Bribes of course are one
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Facebook is now allowing users to grab a vanity URL. Thanks to watching my Twitter stream and seeing a couple of fellow genealogists tweet about getting theirs, I was able to go over and snag my name. You can now catch me at http://www.facebook.com/taneya This past week I’ve been exploring Jing further for screen capture,
I’m feeling all inspired again with my genealogy blogging! I’ve gotten some great thoughts from reading others’ blogs. For this post, I’m taking Randy up on his last Saturday Night Fun quest, Where Were They in 1909? The task was as follows: 1) Which of your ancestors were alive in 1909? 2) Tell us where
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