This is why I stay up until 1 in the morning! Tonight while doing some newspaper transcription, I had a great discovery. For the past couple of years, I have been transcribing old issues of The Roanoke Beacon. This is the newspaper of Plymouth (Washington County), North Carolina. My maternal grandmother and practically all of […]
Sunday, June 7th, 2009 is my brother’s birthday. Happy Birthday Rashid! I’m posting this slightly early becuase he is overseas, so for him, it’s already his birthday. In order to mark the occasion, here’s a flashback from the past – a picture from when he was just a itty bitty baby. Awww……
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Since my last post a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been quite busy. I’ve finished the curriculum phase of my MPH degree and have now moved into the research phase. This means that I no longer am in class every day for three hours a day + working + homework + family + hobbies. Whew!
I’ve just returned home from a 4 day visit to the beautiful island of Oahu, Hawaii. I was there for a business trip, the annual gathering of the Medical Library Association. It has been busy and interesting and on Monday I had a chance to do something I had been looking forward to for months –
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With life so busy this month, I’ve not had much time for genealogy, so I’m delighted to participate in this week’s blogging prompt. The objective — “Week #18: Showcase a favorite blog or blogger. This is a great way to share some blog love and introduce readers to new genealogy writers.” For this, I’d like
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Here’s some information from my professional life as a medical librarian — today I read on the Reference Shelf blog about the National Library of Medicine’s revised Image search from their History of Medicine Division. I did a fellowship at the National Library of Medicine in 2001 and am also again currently funded by them
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Today I took my first “real” genealogy field trip! I met fellow Koonce researcher John & his wife Nancy today and we ventured down to Lincoln County, TN to do some cemetery searching and hopping. I am absolutely exhausted this evening, but it was a great day. John has been doing Koonce research for many
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It’s late in the day, but I found one of my childhood Easter pictures to share of my brother and I. I think this was 1981; my mother will have to confirm. I do remember that there was a cemetery behind this house – I’ll have to go see if I can figure out its
I’m feeling particularly uninspired this week with my genealogy, so I was happy to see that this week’s Weekly Genealogy prompt was right up my alley. Thanks to We Tree for creating the weekly prompts, and thanks to Thomas for keeping allo of our events organized and sending reminders via the Facebook Genea-Bloggers group. This
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Some may know that I use EasyBib to format some of the citations I use in my genealogy work. I posted about EasyBib last year (see post) and last night I had a thought — why not ask EasyBib to put their templates to use for genealogy work? So, I sent them a tweet asking
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