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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun – My 16

I’m going to take Randy up on his Saturday Night Genealogy Fun for August 8, 2009.  Not because of the intent to document my ethnicity for that is very easy – to the best of my current knowledge, all (with the exception of 1) of my ancestors as far as I can trace have been

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We’re Back!

My abscence this past week has been due to us being on family vacation.  We are back, so this next week will have stories and info from our trip.  More to come later…..

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Flurry of Activity

I hardly know where to even begin with this post – I have so much going on these days! In the past week, I’ve hardly kept up with all the geneablogsphere activity as I’ve been rather self-absorbed in my newest endeavors.  In the past three weeks or so, I’ve agreed to several genealogy activities. #1)

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Using Ancestry Trees

With the recent news of Ancestry updating their Online Member Trees I have been thinking over this for a few days now.  Randy’s excellent post describing his experiences with the new interface prompted me to go ahead and explore it for myself and I was quite pleased.  While the changes they have currently implemented are

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Genealogy with the Kids

Earlier this week as I was reading Randy’s “Best of the Genealogy Blogs,” I checked out Amy of WeTree’s post on getting kids into the genealogy fix.  In her post, Amy shares some wonderful suggestions for how to get kids involved with your genealogy efforts and shares some interesting experiences.  Bribes of course are one

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Facebook Frenzy

Facebook is now allowing users to grab a vanity URL.  Thanks to watching my Twitter stream and seeing a couple of fellow genealogists tweet about getting theirs, I was able to go over and snag my name. You can now catch me at http://www.facebook.com/taneya This past week I’ve been exploring Jing further for screen capture,

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Happy Birthday Rashid

Sunday, June 7th, 2009 is my brother’s birthday.  Happy Birthday Rashid!  I’m posting this slightly early becuase he is overseas, so for him, it’s already his birthday. In order to mark the occasion, here’s a flashback from the past – a picture from when he was just a itty bitty baby. Awww……

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Search Enhancements At GenealogyBank

I really need to go to bed, but I just had to post this! I was sneaking a peek in GenealogyBank.com tonight and noticed that they have made some enhancements to their search interface for the Historical Newspapers Collection.   When you go to the search screen, you are shown several new search options that

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In Memory of Aunt Hazel

On Monday, February 2, 2009, my great-aunt, Mrs. Hazel Koonce Harper, of Kinston, North Carolina passed away.  She was 94 years old.  I only have vague memories of meeting her, but I did have a chance to speak with her a couple of years ago about her family and she provided me with valuable information

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