I’m trying something new and I invite you to follow along! Rather than add posts to my blog here, I’m trying out Substack – a more social experience for my longer writing pieces. Come follow me there! taneyakoonce.substack.com.
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A Second Brain. This is a concept that I’ve been exploring as of late, and in particular, how to use digital apps to intentionally create an organized digital “Second Brain”. I have been working towards this goal for awhile now and in the past week, I feel as if I have finally refined the system
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How we manage our photos is an important aspect of doing family history work; whether photos from the past or photos from our present – they all tell stories. Today, Facebook announced that everyone now has the ability to transfer your Facebook photos & videos into your Google Photos account. This is a handy
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Off and on for the past 5 years, I have been making yearly 12×24 calendars for members of my family. I started back in 2014 and while I try to get it done each year, I have missed a few in this time frame primarily because I just have not always gotten myself organized enough
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For some time now, I’ve given though to recording my family members talking about their memories. However, I’d not taken the time to look into how I could record phone calls. For me, phone calls are going to be the best chance I have of making it happen. Last week, one of my geneabuddies, Brenda, posted
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This blog post is part of a series about my trip to Plymouth, NC for the 44th Annual McNair Family Reunion. In my last post I wrote about visiting the home of my 3rd – great grand uncle Dred Wimberly. Well, I also wanted to stop at nearby Unity Cemetery since this is where Dred is buried.
Oh how I love genealogy! Tonight, while doing a little Twitter reading, I saw Thomas post that Ancestry has put the NY State Census indexes online for 1892, 1915, and 1925. Excitedly, I quickly hopped over to the Ancestry site to search 1925 for I expected to be able to find my great-grandparents – Lewis
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If I never felt like a genealogist, boy, I sure do now! It all started simply enough. An email from my friend Kay Lynn, who volunteers with me in the NCGenWeb project: …while cleaning out and going thru all my genealogy books I came upon a few Washington County cemeteries that were surveyed in 1936.. would
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I added a new icon to my sidebar this evening — the 1940 Census Ambassador Badge. I joined last week as I am going to be contributing to the creation of the index. So much has been made available online about the upcoming census that I will not rehash here. In short, when the census
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Well, virtually anyway 🙂 Adam Hansen is physically at the conference and I saw him tweet that they have a monitor up showing the Twitter stream on site. Looked at the picture and guess whose tweet was on the screen. My own! Fellow Twitter, Linda Geiger, had tweeted that she enjoyed David Lambert’s presentation and
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