Category Archives: About Me

Mistakes Happen

[I am working my way backwards through Amy Coffin's 52 Weeks of Abundant Genealogy prompts because I wasn't paying attention at the beginning of the year.  This is week #28...Mistakes.] Mistakes happen in genealogy.  Even the most experienced genealogy can read a name wrong, transpose a number, and come to the wrong conclusion.  One of …

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Binders or Folders?

[I am working backwards through Amy Coffin's 52 Weeks of Abundant Genealogy because I wasn't paying attention at the beginning of the year.  This is my entry for week #29...Organizational Tools. Here's one of the things I learned from genealogy.  Everyone has a method for organization that is the WAY THAT THINGS MUST BE DONE.  …

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She Lived in the Same Neighborhood

[I am working my way backwards through Amy Coffin's 52 Weeks of Abundant Genealogy because I wasn't paying attention the first half of the year.  This is week #30...Serendipity] This happened sometime in the mid-1990s after I began volunteering with AOL’s Genealogy Chat.  Because of chat, I came into contact with many genealogists and learned …

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