When my dad got orders for Japan in the early ’50s, he went ahead of the rest of the family. Mom had to get from Ohio to the Pacific Coast in order to sail to Japan.
The photo at left was taken when my mom, brother and sister were leaving my Uncle’s home in Michigan headed west. [...]
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Loving the Carnival!
Posted in Blogging, Carnival of Genealogy, Websites, challenge, personal, tagged Carnival of Genealogy, challenge, CoG, genealogy, personal on November 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Extra! Extra! Read all about how the case of Chase began at the town on the river spending days of childhood on the water and wandering through a haunted graveyard. Though independent from birth, there was still time for the furry and feathered family members or calling on dear St. Nicholas. Often taking time to share, show and explain traditions or statistics on [...]
Genealogy Trading Card
Posted in Photographs, challenge, personal, tagged challenge, genealogy, Saturday Fun, SNGF on September 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I think Sheri started this with Simply Brilliant Idea on her blog, The Educated Genealogist and then Randy is listing the idea as this week’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun at Genea-Musings. Sheri had mentioned a few days ago on Facebook that only a couple other people had made their Trading Cards. I commented that I [...]
99 MORE Things!
Posted in Blogging, Websites, challenge, personal, tagged challenge, genealogy, meme on January 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Becky, at Kinexxions, Thomas at Destination: AustinFamily and Donna at What’s Past is Prologue have been compiling the “99+ Genealogy Things Meme”. I won’t repeat all of it here – but I will list those things which I have done.
Uploaded tombstone pictures to Find-A-Grave.
Documented ancestors for four generations (self, parents, grandparents, great-grandparents) .
Joined Facebook.
Joined the [...]
Carnival is Posted!
Posted in Blogging, Carnival of Genealogy, Websites, challenge, tagged Carnival of Genealogy, challenge, CoG, holidays, New Years, Websites on January 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The 63rd Carnival of Genealogy (New Year’s Resolutions) is posted at Creative Gene. Once again, Jasia outdid herself with this one! And for all of the genea-bloggers whose resolutions were to “host a carnival” or show some kindness to other bloggers – Jasia is looking for hosts for this year to help take some of the [...]
2008 Year in Review
Posted in Blogging, Websites, challenge, tagged Blogging, challenge on January 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some of the genea-bloggers are listing a “Year in Review” of their blogs for 2008. Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings discovered this meme at John Newmark’s Transylvanian Dutch blog. The idea is to take the first sentence from the first blog of each month. There will end up being 12 sentences. (Since I didn’t start my [...]
Thanksgiving Meme
Posted in Blogging, challenge, personal, tagged challenge, meme, Thanksgiving on November 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My newfound cousin, Julie Cahill Tarr, at GenBlog, began a Thanksgiving meme and tagged me. The challenge is to write a blog post listing 2 things I’m thankful for and tag a person to spread the love.
I am thankful for having the best husband in the world who has been my rock for over 20 years; [...]
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