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Wordle Thy Ancestors
For my next Winter Genea Bloggers challenge, I played around with Wordle. It’s a fun little application that allows you to fill in a box with text. Then it creates a Wordle…a representation of your word list in living color. I decided to do a Wordle based on my ancestor surnames. This is not a …
My Top 10 Genealogy Moments of 2009
Lisa at the Accidental Genealogist blogged about her top 10 genealogy moments of 2009. It got me thinking about what achievements I made this year. I think I’ve done pretty darn well for someone who bogged down with family health issues for the first half of the year. 1. I found out that my Great …
Tombstone Tuesday: Catharine Kelly’s Tombstone Found
A month or so ago, I added some graves to findagrave.com. I only got through a few, added a couple of photos, then requested 3 photos. Last week, I was contacted by a volunteer. He went to Holy Cross Cemetery but couldn’t find my graves. I sent him what little information I had for his …