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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Today I learned of a new iPhone app and service called BillionGraves.com. I don’t have an iPhone, but I am excited by the potential. My first reaction was “oh no – we already have Find-A-Grave. Why would they compete with them?” But, in looking at the BillionGraves site, the function is quite different and is
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This weekend I reached a milestone on Find-A-Grave. Since joining in 2007 I have added over 1,000 photos to the site! I know there are contributors that do a lot more, but I was pleased to reach this milestone 🙂 Let’s see how long it takes me to get to 2,000. In addition to the
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On Saturday afternoon, the hubby kidnapped us and decided that we were going to drive around aimlessly for awhile before getting something to eat. Our driving led us north of Nashville and in nearby Joelton. Well, guess what we saw along the way? A church cemetery! Being the good genealogist that I am,
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Over the holiday weekend, I made DH take me to two local cemeteries so I could take a few pictures for Find-A-Grave. We didn’t stay long – about an hour combined, but during that time I got many pictures for uploading. Perhaps my favorite part of the whole experience was how involved Kaleya (who will
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In my last post, I expressed my desire for a Find-A-Grave app for my smartphone and outlined several specific features I wished to see in the app. After posting and sharing the link, I learned from Thomas that there was an ongoing discussion on the Find-A-Grave forums, and then someone posted a link to a
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A couple of months ago I read an article about a Vanderbilt Engineering student named Ben Gotow and his work developing iPhone apps. He developed an iPhone app for artists that has sold more than 20,000 units to date, an app for a Vanderbilt informatics group that allows anesthesiologists to view what’s going on in
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This Tombstone Tuesday post is not for someone in my family, but rather that of a co-worker. The furthest back I’ve traced her Faith lineage is to the mother of this ancestor, Balthazaar “Balthus” Faith. This image of his tombstone is courtesy of an upload from a FindAGrave volunteer at his gravesite in the Calvary
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