[The 13th Edition of Smile for the Camera Carnival theme is All Creatures Great and Small–The Family Pets. Get ready to meet my three legged wonder dog, Sierra…] My brother gave us Sierra as a gift. She was a wobbly legged flat faced 8 week old Lab/Golden Mix pup. She cracked us up as she…
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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…
My Very First Genealogy Happy Dance
The 65th Carnival of Genealogy asks us to write about one of our genealogy happy dances. You know, that moment when you practically danced around a research library or hugged the mail carrier. This post is about my first research experience and the moment I knew I was addicted. I had interviewed a couple of…
Laughter and Superstition During an Earthquake
Though Thomas Jones was born in Australia, my Grandma swore that he was a typical Irish man. I don’t know where his parents were born, so I’ll have to take my Grandma’s word for it. He married into an Irish family. Perhaps it wore off on him. On the fateful morning of 18th of April…
Sixth Edition of Smile for the Camera: Tickle Your Funny Bone
The sixth edition of Smile for the Camera is out! The theme this time around is “Tickle Your Funny Bone”. Take a peek at the collection and get set to give a giggle or two: Tickle Your Funny Bone You can see my entry if you like: Look! It’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Thanks to…