I’ve been spending some time the past few days searching images in Flickr. There are so many great pictures that people are sharing and I’ve enjoyed looking through them. I am searching Flickr for pictures relevant to my genealogical interest and I’ve been surprised to find as much as I have. Back in April of […]
The newsletter for one of the genealogy societies that I belong too recently won an award, the Joe M. McLaurin Newsletter Award from the North Carolina Society of Historians, Inc. The Heritage Trail is the newsletter of the Heritage Genealogical Society, a society that covers Lenoir, Greene & Jones counties in North Carolina. My father’s
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On Wednesday I posted a montage of pictures and asked if anyone could see resemblance among them. I got two comments on the blog, plus I shared the picture with someone else that I know who is very good at looking at people and seeing similarities. Consensus: there are similarities and I’ve confirmed that I’m
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Who looks like who in these pictures? Do you see any resemblences? Let me know if you do. I’ll post later on why I did this.
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A couple of months ago, someone posted a comment to my Black Nashville blog to let me know that a new book had come out. The book was the one above; the author, Sheryll Cashin, was here speaking on campus today and I couldn’t go! I’m so disappointed. But, there are plans to put her
To being able to be the North Carolina GenWeb Site Coordinator for one of my main counties of interest, Edgecombe County, North Carolina! Turns out someone beat me to the punch to request it when a notice was sent out that the county was adoptable. I have roots there and just submitted a profile to
Over this weekend while catching up on some of my genealogy blog reading, I saw that a new group had been formed, the Association of Graveyard Rabbits. Oh! I’m so envious! If only I had time these days I’d have become a charter member myself; I love graveyards! But alas, its’ not meant to be.
Today is my sister’s 23rd birthday! She was born at 10:28 am (Eastern Time). This one’s for you Kelli – a blast from the past!
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Do you use FindAGrave? If not, you should! Thanks to a wonderful volunteer, I today received notification that a picture of my uncle’s headstone had been fulfilled. My mother has been wanting a picture of it for years now and she no longer lives in the city where he is buried. We love you and
Yesterday, October 16th, was my daughter’s birthday. She turned 4! She was born on my maternal grandmother’s birthday and she has the middle name of Kalonji’s paternal grandmother. My mother told me she went to the nursing home yesterday to help grandma celebrate her birthday. She turned 84 yesterday. Happy Birthday grandma! So, as a
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