A New Award!

Jessica, at Jessica’s Genejournal has awarded me with the Proximidade Award.  This award is for “These blogs invest and believe in PROXIMITY-nearness in space, time, and relationships! These blogs are exceedingly charming! These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends! They are not interested in prizes or self -aggrandizement. Our hope is that when [...]

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Scenes of Christmas

  Our Christmas tree all lit up and decorated.  Santa had already arrived but everyone was still sleeping – except for my husband and me.  We  had gotten up early to make breakfast (me) and take our son to work (my husband) by 6 a.m.  The poinsettia just to the left of the lower part [...]

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I Resolve To . . .

For the 63rd edition of the Carnival of Genealogy, the topic is New Year’s Resolutions!
As far as my genealogy research for 2009 -  I resolve to:

Scan many more documents, photos, and the rest of the slides in my possession
Organize my files
Obtain / organize documentation for direct ancestors
Enter documentation and information into family file

As far as [...]

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Preparing for Christmas

Genealogy posts will be a little slow for the next week or so as I’m attempting to get caught up on items that need to be done by Christmas – the shopping for gifts, the buying of gifts, the constant asking for lists, the buying of ingredients for baking some gifts, the actual baking, the [...]

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Wordless Wednesday – Spirit of Christmas Past

Our basement decorated for Christmas, mid 1960s
Photographed by Gene Amore
Digital scan in possession of Wendy Littrell (Address for private use).

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Who Are You (Tell Me – Who Are You)?

 
Well, who are you? (Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)
I really wanna know (Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)
Tell me, who are you? (Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)
‘Cause I really wanna know (Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)
written by Pete Townshend
I posted this picture on August [...]

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Digital Christmas – 2007

Miriam, at AnceStories, posted her first digital scrapbook page recently after reading Jasia’s post about a new Christmas Around the World digital scrapbook kit at her Creative Genealogy blog.  Not wanting to be left out of the fun, I’m posting this digital scrapbook page I made after Christmas last year.  I designed the paper and [...]

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At Least You Can’t Hear Me!

The genea-bloggers are caroling!  footnoteMaven over at footnoteMaven will be hosting all of the carolers real soon! Please go visit her site.
For my carol, I’ve chosen “Mary, Did You Know” – the Kenny Rogers/Wynonna Judd version.
Mary, did you know
that your baby boy will one day walk on water?
Mary, did you know
that your baby boy will [...]

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Deck the Halls

Denise Olson, at Moultrie Creek is hosting the Christmas Tour of Blogs that will kick off on Dec. 15th. Genea-bloggers are encouraged to create a post describing their family’s Christmas decorations – past or present.
So sit back and enjoy my tour!

This is the gold wreath – made out of newspapers and painted with gold spray [...]

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Doing Research & Possibly Finding the Blazers

I’ve been doing some research the last couple of days and believe that I’ve knocked down a couple other brick walls!  Many years ago as I was looking for the parents of John Blazer (my maternal 3rd great-grandfather) b. March 12, 1810 d. 1873, I came across an article published in “Biographical and Historical Record [...]

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