It is Natural Family History Month in Australia and an Australian blogger has started a meme with several questions for genealogy bloggers. I thought I’d take part, so here are my answers: What are the titles and URLs of your genealogy blog/s? — My genealogy blog is The Research Journal (this blog). I also run…
Category: About Me
Five Lessons I Learned as a Child
While I was waiting for the soy milk to reach the right temperature for making yogurt this morning, my mind started to wander. There are some rules in yogurt making that you must abide by so that the bacteria can do it’s thing. This got me to thinking of some lessons I learned as a…
Making Yogurt Connects Me To My Ancestors
I have been on a mission for the last 8 weeks. I am vegan and eat non-dairy plain unsweetened yogurt for health reasons. I’ve been ordering by the case for over a year. And then, it went on back order. I waited and waited but the health food store I ordered it from could not…
May Day Celebrations
We are having lovely Spring weather in California. We’ve had prolonged rainy seasons for the last 10 years or so. It’s really nice to experience some sunny days. All this Spring time warmth, made me remember how our school days changed in May in elementary school. As the year wound down and the weather got…
SNGF: Lesson Learned
Randy over at GeneaMusings has a new Saturday Night Challenge for us. I’m supposed look back on when I began researching my family tree and the first problem I experienced. Then, report on the lesson learned. I started researching in 1990. My beginnings included my Grandmother writing four letters about her roots. She wrote me…