Have you tried out the audio-only app, Clubhouse, yet? I have been using the app since December 2020 and enjoy it; there are many different types of content to explore. One feature of the app is that they try to make it easy to invite your friends in. The way the invites work (it is […]
Clubhouse Connections Provide Clues – Just Like Your Genealogy FAN Club! Read More »
Five years ago, in February 2015, I started Thomas MacEntee’s Genealogy Do-Over and it very much helped me transform my processes for how I record my genealogy files. I made many updates to my processes, and one of those, in particular, has been to move towards using standardized place names. This is interesting to me,
Do You Standardize Your Place Names? Read More »
In my last post, I shared that I am a featured contributor for a new platform, FamilyScrybe™, where I currently have 3 blog posts up. One of the posts describes my genealogy origin story about how conversations with my grandmothers were part of the spark to my interest in researching the family. In the many
They Died When He Was Young Read More »
Do you read my blog posts via email? If so, come check out my website! I’ve updated it! I have had it on my heart to do an update for a couple of years now but never got around to it – until now. As part of the update, I transitioned to a new domain
I’ve been blogging for 14 years and I find it an excellent way to share my research findings and the processes I use for my family history research. Digital is my forte and I embrace it wholly! When it comes to ensuring that the work I do sustains beyond me, I am, at this point,
Is My Book Finally Going to Happen? Read More »
As I get started into this new year, I continue to remain focused on reducing the clutter I have in my genealogy files. A few days ago, I took some time to deconstruct a research binder I put together for a part of my genealogy research. This was a binder I initially created about 14
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Today, December 11th is the death anniversary of my paternal aunt Ella Levon Koonce. She passed away on this day in 1984 at the young age of 27. I was 9 years old but remember the day well. My middle name, Yvette, was inspired by her middle name — hers was supposed to be Yvonne
15 Minutes for Ella Read More »
My father’s family is from Craven County, North Carolina, and one of the churches his family worships in is Alum Springs Church. Today, the church held a celebration and my great-aunt, who is a member there and heavily involved in church activities, asked if I could contribute to the program and research the history of
Recording the Church History Read More »
It’s Week 3 of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks series and this week’s prompt is “Longevity.” For this prompt, I decided to check my genealogy database and find the longest-living person. I use TNG: The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding for my primary software program and it is easy to run statistics and find the longest-living
The Longest Living Person in My Genealogy Database: Zeola L. Portis Read More »
Back in 2015, I started the Genealogy Do-Over process. It was an opportune time to revisit my research & documentation procedures as it had been about 10 years since I’d started doing genealogy. At this time, I used it as a way to begin ensuring that I recorded my family tree info in FamilySearch Family
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