Over the years it has always amazed me how deeply folks buy into their own data. Even me. As we do our research we become convinced of our conclusions...Sometimes even as new information becomes available. My take has always been that genealogy is always at best an inexact science...If you…
I have heard from cousins on a couple of my lines recently. Over the past month I have heard from relatives of my mothers grandmother, Della Blair Medford. This Blair line had been mostly unknown until I heard from two different cousins with their own lines. One is sharing photos…
Picasa is one of the most popular online photo publishing services available. However, it has always been a place to publish your photos for others to see. Now Google (the owners of Picasa) have introduced Collaborative Picasa Web Albums. Every album on Picasa Web Albums is potentially collaborative: multiple people…
The whole reason I set this site up in the new format last fall was because it would be easier to update...Since then life happened and I just realized I haven't. Updated the data that is. So today I did...Update that is. Now, unfortunately, that doesn't mean everything is up…
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It was family reunion time last weekend. One "gift" I wasn't expecting was a box of Aunt Bessie's research and correspondence from the 60's thru the 80's. I've been spending this week going through it and a lot of what she had was not commonly known to the rest of…
In the last two and a half months alone, the original Genealogy Research Process Map post received 500 pageviews. Version 2 of the map has only a few changes. Besides fixing two typos, the arrows separating the 6 process steps where moved up next to the step headers. I did…
From Coffee Muses A fifty year old Christmas Card greeting being sent from my family one more time just as it was in 1958. Merry Christmas all... I'll be doing the family bit for the next couple of days. Y'all enjoy the holiday and I'll catch ya on the other…
