Made a post over on my blog for the USGENWEB county site I coordinate. If anyone is interested in seeing what kind of data I get from Google Analytics, you might find it interesting. I don’t see very many blogs discuss use data – it can be a very important source for tracking how your […]
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Starts tonight!!!! I’m so excited! http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aalives/
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Okay — I cannot believe I am just making this association, but here goes… In my last post, I recounted how I was helping someone I know research her maternal line so she could do a cross-stitch project called Mother’s Tree. The design (pictured below) is a list of mothers of mothers of mothers, etc.
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Finally, a blog theme that I like! Since I moved over to WordPress, I have not been all that happy with many of the themes they provide for you to select from for a blog, but I finally took some time this morning to figure out how to customize elements. So, I chose one of
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Over on the Official Google Blog the other day, they wrote about a website called DonorsChoose that allows teachers to submit ideas that they have for their students, but require funding. People wishing to donate, can then go to the site and choose from the database and contribute to a specific project. I decided to
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I was reading Randy’s blog and saw that he took the 5 question challenge from the 24-7 Family History Circle blog. This will be a good way for me to get a post in, so I think I’ll participate too! 1. What was your favorite subject in school? My favorite subject was math. I particularly
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My blogging these days has been light but I have been working on genealogy. I have been helping my stepmother’s cousin work on his mother’s tree. Also, I’ve been taking a look at Family Tree Maker 2008 trying to decide if I want to purchase it or not. So far it has some cool features,
Randy has started a new blog for his genealogical society. I think this is such a wonderful idea and wish more societies would do so! I think it has fabulous potential for encouraging more online collaboration. For my own genealogy, I am getting a bit discouraged with the Koonce family research. As I look through
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Over the past week, I have done various genealogy activities: I indexed notices from three issues of the Free Press newspaper of Kinston (Lenoir County), North Carolina and four issues of the Roanoke Beacon Newspaper 0f Plymouth (Washington County), North Carolina. Found some very interesting notices too and decided to submit a few items from
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Today I asked my mother how she would describe her grandmothers with one word: – paternal grandmother, Lucinda — “sweet” – maternal grandmother, Martha — “bossy” Then, I asked Kalonji the same question: – his paternal grandmother — “sage” – his maternal grandmother — “gangsta” So then, he asked me the same question: -my paternal