Music of My Life

Last week, Tim Abbott from Walking the Berkshires posted a challenge that asked, What were the 10 most influencial albums of your formative teenaged years? I’ve read several genea-blogger posts and know that once I list the music that shaped my life as an adolescent, I’ll appear as the teeny-bopper I really was!
So without further [...]

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Yesterday’s Game Stats

Actually yesterday I worked some more on tagging photos and making sure I had good descriptions.  It was Texas Tax Free Weekend and I had yet to get my grandson some new school clothes and shoes. So to take advantage of no sales tax, we went shopping yesterday afternoon.  I also thought a lot about [...]

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Day 8 Stats

I haven’t done much in the way of genealogy today as we attended a wedding and reception this afternoon.  We were priviledged to be invited to this wonderful event.  The bride is the daughter of dear friends of ours.  As she walked up the aisle on the arm of her father, with her mother, two [...]

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Wordless Wednesday: Meeting Mickey

Disneyland, Anaheim, California.  September 1966.
Mickey and Me.
Photo taken by Gene Amore and is now in my sister’s possession.

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Tuesday Thingers (or why I love shopping for books!)

(I’m a day late with this post!)
Lori Thornton at Smokey Mountain Family History asks: What’s your favorite bookstore? Is it an online store or a bricks-and-mortar store? How often do you go book shopping?
I’ve loved all book stores since I was a child.  Most of the books I bought when I was growing up came [...]

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The Stores of My Childhood

There has been a meme going around the genealogy blogs, started by Lori Thornton of Smoky Mountain Family History about long gone stores of yesteryear.  I’ve read a few of them and it sparked my own memories of the shops we’d go to in downtown Dayton.
Those were the days of department stores where each department [...]

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What a Bunch of Hooey!

The topic for the 54th Edition of Carnival of Genealogy is “Family Language”.  Does your family use words and phrases that no one else knows or understands? Where did they come from? Did you ever try to explain your “family language” to outsiders? Tell a story about your family-coined words, phrases, or nicknames.
 
 
I’ve been struggling [...]

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Status Update - Day 3

Already been pretty busy this morning.  The tasks I’ve completed this morning include:
Write! Write! Write!
Task A.  Write a summary of what your blog is about and post it on your blog - you may not have done this since you started the blog and it is a great way to have new readers learn more [...]

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Why “All My Branches” . . .

One of the challenges of the Genea-Blogger Group Games under “Write! Write! Write!” is to Write a summary of what your blog is about and post it on your blog – you may not have done this since you started the blog and it is a great way to have new readers learn more about [...]

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Trying to Bulldoze Through the Brick Walls

There have been several times in the past where I’ve come to a brick wall - more like a cement wall - unmovable and indestructable.  When I’ve come to a screeching halt in my research, I’ve generally focused on either other activities or other names in my ancestry.  I think it is usually a case [...]

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