Happy New Year everyone! If you read this in a feed reader – click through – my blog has a new look. For my 1st post of the 2011, I am sharing my new blog design. In January 2010 I also updated the look of my blog. At the time, I was aiming for a […]
Fellow genealogy blogger Tony Masiello recently posted about a less than satisfactory experience with Ancestry.com’s customer service. Reading his blog post prompted me to also share a less-than-satisfactory customer service experience I had with a genealogy library. I asked a question about a NARA microfilm set that is freely available in its entirety online. Let’s
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Wishing a Happy Thanksgiving for tomorrow to those in the United States! For Wordless Wednesday this week, I’ll share a photo of Bristol (Sullivan County), TN. Bristol is has a sister city just across the state line, in Virginia. For Thanksgiving one year in college, I went home with my friend SJE who has family
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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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I’ve discovered that my genealogy blog was featured on MyHeritage.com’s Top 100 Genealogy Sites. How very cool! They purposely sought to highlight lesser known blogs. Their criteria were 1) high quality content 2) originality in topic choice, approach and design; and 3) frequently updated I’m honored to be on the list and I look forward
Taking a tip from a blog I follow for professional purposes, I’ve added a new series of icons to the right sidebar of my blog. If you read this through a feed reader, here is an image of it just for you. Through the icons you can follow my RSS feed, get email updates, follow
Happy New Year everyone! With a new year comes a new theme for my blog. Here’s one of my cross-stitch projects to go along with the new theme. I finished this back in 2003. If you are reading this via a feed reader, come visit and take a look 🙂 I’ve also moved my main
Welcome to the new blog location! I decided to move my blog to my own web server so please update your links and bookmarks accordingly. Why the move? I needed additional flexibility in the look of my blog. When hosted on WordPress’s site, I am limited to small selection of themes. Now, I have hundreds
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This past week, I’ve had all of my stepsons visiting. We had a very busy week. Part of our activities this week was to get them watching Roots. I love this series and the book. But, I also have some great disappointment today that I am pondering over. Yesterday, I went to the state archives and
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In my last post about my uncle’s wedding, towards the end I mentioned that his wife’s uncle, Moses Wright was part of a very tragic event. That event was the abduction of Emmett Till. Emmett Till, which if you are not aware of the history you can read the details on Wikipedia, was taken from
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