I had a bad week last week. My dog was having health issues, waking me up every 2 hours to go to the bathroom, for almost a week. She’s doing much better now. Unbeknownst to me, Earline Hines of the Ancestral Notes blog, gave me the Kreativ Blogger Award! Earline, I wasn’t ignoring you. I…
How Do You Research Someone Who Left No Trail?
I am working on a research project for a friend because I can’t seem to get my genealogy fix with my own lines 😉 I like working on other people’s trees since it gives me experience in a research area that I wouldn’t otherwise come into contact with. This line has me a bit confounded. …
And the Winner is…
It’s time for the iGene Awards! AGFH proudly proclaims: “iGene Awards, The Best of The Best! It’s Academy awards time… time for the Academy of Genealogy and Family History, aka AGFH, to honor their best blog posts of 2008” According to the rules I get to nominated five of my own articles and since I’m…
The Case for Sharing Your Genealogy GEDCOM
Recently, I experience what every genealogist dreads. My computer crashed and I had no way to access the data on my hard drive. Much to my chagrin, some of my backup CDs were corrupted. The data lost. I was very grateful that around September I had done a complete backup and loaded to my private…
Picnic Attire Circa 1910
In the 10th Edition of Smile for the Camera, we’re asked to show our ancestors in costume. Not the Halloween type, but everyday wear. I’ve chosen a photograph of my Grandpa Lassalle out on a picnic with other members of the French community in the San Francisco Bay Area ca. 1912. Today if we were…