I’ve just had occasion to send another photo restoration order off to George Geder and I realized that I’m not sure I’ve posted before about my experiences using him for enhancing my family photos. First of all, I have to say that GEORGE ROCKS! I found him through a post he made at Afrigeneas and […]
Five minutes ago I just received an email that my grandmother’s uncle, Robert “Boo Air” Kilpatrick, died earlier today. BooAir was the last surviving son of Randolph & Mary Harvey Kilpatrick. Randolph and Mary had 13 kids to my knowledge, and now only one of their children is now living. BooAir was about 80 years
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Made a post over on my blog for the USGENWEB county site I coordinate. If anyone is interested in seeing what kind of data I get from Google Analytics, you might find it interesting. I don’t see very many blogs discuss use data – it can be a very important source for tracking how your
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Very near to where I live right now is an old house with a historic marker out front. Next door is an old cemetery with some beautiful tombstones. I’ve been driving by this house for months, always curious what the marker says and who is in the cemetery. So, yesterday, Kalonji and I finally stopped.
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I am apparently late to the game, having just discovered a feature at Ancestry.com that has been available for almost two months now! But, I just discovered their Family Beta view. This is exactly the kind of enhancement I’ve been looking for them to add! One of my biggest frustrations when working with trees on
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With Ancestry’s current focus on the African-American records they have in their collections, I’ve been taking another look through what is available. Tonight, I thought I would look and search through some of the Works Progress Administration’s Slave Narratives. The full-text of the slave narratives are also available on the Library of Congress (LOC) website.
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Starts tonight!!!! I’m so excited! http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aalives/
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Okay — I cannot believe I am just making this association, but here goes… In my last post, I recounted how I was helping someone I know research her maternal line so she could do a cross-stitch project called Mother’s Tree. The design (pictured below) is a list of mothers of mothers of mothers, etc.
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Before I discovered the wonderful world of genealogy a couple of years ago, my hobby of choice was cross-stitching. I still enjoy stitching, I just don’t do it as much (you can see all the projects I’ve completed here). Back in 2003, while on a business trip out to San Diego and while there had
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I haven’t seen this yet posted to any genealogy blogs I read, but perhaps I missed it. This has been circulating in my professional blogsphere for a little while now and I finally was able to spend a few minutes looking around. The Library of Congress has added (and will continue to add) photos from
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