My most visited page on the blog is my How To Videos page where I post links and slides from my presentations that I do for Ancestry.com. Also the page Blogs You […]
Follow Friday — Uencounter.me, Family Stories and Motivation
This is two weeks worth of Follow Friday, since I missed last weeks. Lots of good reading in here! A couple of posts about uencounter.me: Uencounter.me — A Way to Plot Cluster […]
Wisdom Wednesday — Sure it’s fun and addictive, but it’s not all that easy
So I’ve be blogging for a few months now and it has indeed been a lot of fun. I spent the last couple of days thinking about what kind of posts have […]
Sorting Saturday: Starting a Narrative Lineage
I am prepping for my first CG attempt, which I hope to start sometime this year. One of the requirements is to write Narrative Lineage. I’m going to practice writing one for […]
Sunday’s Obituary: Maiden Aunts and Bachelor Uncles — Minnie Maude Gillespie
Every generation has their own maiden aunts and bachelor uncles who leave behind no children and often there is no one left to tell their story. They truly become forgotten stories. I […]
Details in City Directories: Howard’s Radio Career Uncovered
I was asked a couple of days ago, “Why are city directories interesting?” It is a fair question. You find them, you attach them to your online tree or software program, and […]
Just Because It’s In Print Doesn’t Make It True
I never knew my maternal grandfather, Howard Arthur Turner, as I lost contact with my mother and her side of the family when I was very young. One day I discovered his […]
Returned not used: How I Almost Wasn’t
Wyatt Paul GILLESPIE was born at the end of the Civil War; his wife to be, Laura Cecile DONALD was born 11 years later. He grew up during Reconstruction and they lived their […]
How Eight Children Ended Up Living Alone in 1930
When we looked at Jennie Elizabeth Payne in the 1930 census, we were left with the question, why was Jennie, 22, was living on a farm in Crowder Mountain, North Carolina with […]
Presenting Your Story: Everything I Know About Hyman Victor
Teasing the story out of the records is half the battle. Presenting the story so it is interesting, well that is something else. I love this particular example: Everything I know About […]
