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The Carnival of Genealogy, 55th Edition is now posted at Creative Gene.  This edition contains 50 articles centered around the “show and tell” theme.  Be sure to check it out!

Our friend, Smallest Leaf over at Small-leaved Shamrock, inquired about how I gathered the information for my new “this week’s family events” posts.  So I thought I’d put together a quick tutorial on how I’m doing it in hopes it can help her and others […]

It’s amazing how much information I actually have for many of my relatives.  The problem:  I didn’t know it until a few months ago. I had the obvious sources:  birth/death/marriage certificates, obituaries, memorial/funeral cards, and the like.  And of course I used the sources to […]

I’m still very new to the whole blogging world.  Even though I have an extensive knowledge in web design, I am finding it difficult to customize the LiveJournal blog.  Although I am fairly satisfied with my current blog, there were many things I wasn’t able […]

Taking a cue from Thomas MacEntee’s “On This Day” posts at his blog Destination: Austin Family, I am starting a regular post called “Family Events.”  Instead of doing this for each day like Thomas does, I am going to post on Sunday’s for the upcoming […]

The theme for the 5th Edition Smile For The Camera – A Carnival Of Images is Crowning Glory. Show us those wonderful photographs of hairdos and maybe even a few don’ts. Don’t limit yourself to just hair fashion through the ages, got a great photograph […]

Because my mom lives in constant fear of forest fires, she has an evacuation plan in place.  Instead of fretting over what to take during a stressful evacuation, she grabs the list and starts packing.  Even though I don’t live in constant threat of forest […]

The theme for the 55th Edition of the Carnival of Genealogy is Show & Tell.  I’ve been doing some digging into my paternal grandfather, specifically his time overseas during WWII, so I thought it appropriate to “show” some of these WWII artifacts and “tell” a […]