Family Events – Week of October 20 to October 26

Weekly column sharing birth, marriage, and death events for people in my family tree.

Caution: Light Blogging Ahead

I’ve been neglecting my blog the last few days because I’ve been busy trying to start up my new business.  In addition to that, I’ve started two new genea-blogs and have taken over an ILGenWeb site that needs a lot of attention. I’m trying to […]

Neat Feature on Google Maps

I have no idea how long this feature on Google Maps has been around, but I’m sure glad I found it… Back story:  A month or so ago, I wanted to see where my maternal and paternal grandparents lived in relation to one another.  I […]

The Stock Search Begins

A few weeks back, Denise Levenick over at The Family Curator has challenged us Genea-Bloggers to a treasure hunt. You can see the details in my original post. I decided to explore a box of stock certificates and documents that my paternal grandmother and great-grandmother […]

Tag…I’m It!

I’ve been tagged by Kathy at Kathy’s Genealogy Blog and Colleen at Orations of OMcHodoy.  So here we go…

Commenting, An Essential Part of Blogging

Kathryn over at LOOKING4ANCESTORS posted a challenge to fellow bloggers: I have a challenge for you for this edition of Fun Friday. Spend some time this week-end reading blogs. First start with your favourite blogs, and then, branch out and read some new blogs. The […]

Digital Scrapbooking

As I peruse other blogs, I see some pretty neat things.  I came across digital scrapbook pages and thought I’d give it a whirl. This scrapbook page was designed by Raspberry Road Designs.  The photo is of Joseph CAHILL and Jean Marie MILLER taken on […]

All Those Pesky Collateral Folks

Amir Dekel over at I Dream of Genea(logy) posted an interesting research question about who to include in the ever-growing tree.  This is a question I myself had after I kept adding people that really had no “direct” relationship.  I started to respond to Amir’s […]