I am 3 days into my daily video tips for preserving your family history and it’s been so much fun so far! Given that it is Preservation Week, this is the perfect opportunity to spread awareness for various things we can do when it comes to preserving our family history materials. It excites me to […]
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Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, is a keynote speaker at the upcoming RootsTech 2011 conference. I’m planning a couple of posts within the next 14 days or so around the Internet Archive, so this seemed especially appropriate to post about him. As he, I too am a librarian, and I am absolutely
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Shout out to Cindy’s list for tweeting the URLs to 2 new videos from FamilySearch re their granite vault. http://bit.ly/afZKho http://fb.me/FeuwFjNWless than a minute ago via FacebookCyndi Howells CyndisList I’ve put one of them in my sidebar as my featured video. I’m always on the lookout for genealogy videos so this is a great addition.
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How can you resist reading a fiction mystery book that begins with a family tree? Last week on a trip to Target I was browsing the paperbacks for a book to read and saw The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I’ve been keeping my eye on the run of the movie ever since reading Eastman’s
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Until you mail it back. A census message from President Obama. Make sure you complete your census form! Look for it this month. You can explore the form here – it is only 10 questions so won’t take you too long. 🙂
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I’ve been doing some extra reading on genetic genealogy these days and I just had to post this video. My husband found it for me last night on YouTube. It is a video of a woman who is opening up her results from African Ancestry on camera and giving her reaction. Appended to the video
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In this installment of Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories, the blog prompt is “Christmas Music.” This was an easy one to think about. This song is one my mother played all the time, every single Christmas season! I will forever associate it with my childhood memories of Christmas. ” Silent Night,” as sung by the
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I hardly know where to even begin with this post – I have so much going on these days! In the past week, I’ve hardly kept up with all the geneablogsphere activity as I’ve been rather self-absorbed in my newest endeavors. In the past three weeks or so, I’ve agreed to several genealogy activities. #1)
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I’m writing this post as a pre-published post, but I was just flipping channels and ran across the movie The Temptations. When I watch this movie, I think of my grandfather Herman. My favorite scene from the movie is when actor Christian Payton (playing Paul), sings “For Once In My Life.” At the time, I
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This past week, my cousin was in town and I was able to spend time with her – it was great! “Spooky” is her nickname and we are about 7 years apart. Her mom and my grandmother were sisters and when I was younger, my brother and I used to spend weeks at a time
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