Last month, I did a blog post about a school my mother attended and made a comment that I went to a different school almost every year between Kindergarten and 12th grade. We moved around a lot 🙂 Well, fortunately, I did have some stability at the end of that time span (not that I’m […]
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Experiment 626. I am a super-fan of Experiment 626, or, as you may know him, Stitch, from the movie Lilo & Stitch. Ask anyone who knows me and they will tell you it’s true! There is just something so heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time in Stitch’s quest to just “belong” and Lilo takes
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Oh my! I’ve just created a photo book in less than 5 minutes! Let me share more. I’ve shared here on my blog before that I scrapbook throughout the year and make family yearbooks. I started doing this in 2017 and I have found it a worthwhile and meaningful way to document our memories. I
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Except, I can’t do a “Wordless Wednesday” post without words – ha! My mother recently found this picture of her junior high school in the photo gallery of the New York Public Library’s Digital Collections. This is Public School 126, John Ericsson Junior High School. Her finding prompted me to add specific events in my
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This past week has been a hard one for my city and the surrounding region. Nashville and the Mid-Tennessee region experienced bad storms Monday night and a tornado that covered a 50-mile path along the ground. Fortunately, I and my family are okay and our neighborhood did not suffer damage. That cannot be said for
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In my last post, I shared that I am a featured contributor for a new platform, FamilyScrybe™, where I currently have 3 blog posts up. One of the posts describes my genealogy origin story about how conversations with my grandmothers were part of the spark to my interest in researching the family. In the many
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RootsTech is happening! If you are not familiar with RootsTech, it is an annual conference held in Salt Lake City, Utah each year, that brings together two of my favorite things – genealogy & technology. Each year, I look forward to new developments, advancements, and products in the field. I have not yet ever attended
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Do you read my blog posts via email? If so, come check out my website! I’ve updated it! I have had it on my heart to do an update for a couple of years now but never got around to it – until now. As part of the update, I transitioned to a new domain
I’ve been blogging for 14 years and I find it an excellent way to share my research findings and the processes I use for my family history research. Digital is my forte and I embrace it wholly! When it comes to ensuring that the work I do sustains beyond me, I am, at this point,
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Y’all! Happy Valentine’s Day to me! I am thrilled to do this post to share my 2018 Family Yearbook! I just received it in the mail this evening and I could not be happier. I finished the pages back in December but needed to think about how I wanted to print them. I was not
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