Are you tired of juggling numerous apps and tech products while delving into your family history? I totally understand the struggle. That’s why I want to share my streamlined “tech stack” with you, providing insights into the tools I rely on to boost my efficiency as I pursue my family history. The top 5 items […]
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Happy New Year! It’s now 2020 and we are beginning a new decade! 2019 was a great year for me with regard to my family history and genealogy activities and I wanted to share a brief recap. Some of my highlights include: Presenting for the Tennessee State Library & Archives, the Maury County Genealogical Society, and
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At the end of August, I went on a nice, long 2.5-week vacation – it was lovely! Half of my trip was dedicated to visiting my Koonce genealogy friends in Wisconsin. I’ve blogged before about them – John & Dan – and our excursions in Tennessee to do Koonce genealogy research (here and here). I
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I’ve had quite a busy weekend! Yesterday, I was at the Nashville Zoo to learn more about the African American history at the site, and today, I went to Greenwood Cemetery to take pictures for BIllionGraves. I’ve blogged about BillionGraves several times before here on my blog: my first impressions of it before I could
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This weekend, I was pleased to have the opportunity to present as part of a special programming event of the Middle Tennessee Genealogy Society. We had a session yesterday afternoon loosely based on the concept of a roadshow/roundtable. Our session featured 4 major concepts; presenters were at 4 tables covering the following subjects: Computers in
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This week, I traveled to DC for business and on my way to the airport, took a quick visit to Arlington National Cemetery. I went to the cemetery with one purpose truly, to go to the grave site of Henry A. Greene. Henry, is the grandfather of a woman I met a few weeks ago
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Back in 2009, I wrote about a day of Koonce-hunting in Lincoln County, TN with my buddy John P. Koonce. Yesterday, we were able to continue the adventure and an adventure it was indeed!!! John was joined by his nephew Dan and the primary purpose of our trip was to look for the Grills-Koonce cemetery
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This Veteran’s day I did not have a chance to blog about any veterans in my family, so I decided to honor the holiday differently. I visited the Nashville National Cemetery yesterday and took pictures using the BillionGraves app. In two hours I was able to take more than 800 photos – amazing. Now, my
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When BillionGraves launched just prior to Memorial Day I was quite excited at its availability. Though it was initially offered as an iOS app and I don’t have an iPhone, I enjoyed perusing the website and using what was available there. I wrote a blog post outlining my initial impressions. I am a power techie
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