One of the fascinating things about genealogy is following different lines from the same ancestor to see where they go. It doesn’t matter if it is my line or one of the siblings of my ancestor. It’s interesting to see where they lead to especially if it’s a different locality. Today, I was doing a…
SNGF: Ancestral Tombstones
Randy Seaver is at it again! He’s got his Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge posted for this week. This week the challenge is to see how far back I can go with my ancestry with tombstones. This must be a continuous line. This may be a very short post. First, most of my ancestors were…
Friday Free Ebook: Postcards from Kauai
This find comes a day late, but I think people will enjoy it none-the-less. I was searching Google Books today and came across this gem: Kauai: 100 Years in Postcards, By Stormy Cazad, published in 2011. It is part of the Postcard History Series of Acadia Publishing. The book is full of postcards going back…
Oakland A’s Win the Division
This week the Oakland A’s proved everyone from the concessions stand operator to the Commissioner of Baseball wrong. They didn’t have the big salaries. They didn’t have the big name players. They didn’t have the owners behind them. Yet, somehow they kept winning and winning. They played hard and eventually, they caught up to the…
It’s Family History Month
I bet you didn’t know that genealogist have a month all to themselves. October is Family History Month. What better time to than now to start a family tree, kick start your research, or share what you’ve learned with the younger generation. It’s a good time to refocus my effots. I hope to use this…