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#52ancestors in 52 Weeks- Week 3- Longevity

This week’s topic for #52ancestors is “Longevity”.[1] Hello kind readers. I need to dash off a quick post so I can get to the Mother Ship early enough to later claim I spent “my entire day” scrolling through and squinting at miles of 18th-19th century German church records, some of which are in Latin. This […]

#52Ancestors in 52 Weeks- Week 2- Favorite Photo

This week’s topic for #52ancestors is “favorite photograph”.[1] That’s my dad sitting on a motorcycle. Years ago, I had heard his younger brother, Uncle Jim, laughingly tell a vaguely remembered story wherein my dad supposedly rode an Indian motorcycle onto and across his high school’s stage. We were all gathered at my father’s after-funeral “reception” […]

“Start” Me Up! (With Genealogy)- #52Ancestors in 52 Weeks- Week1

Fellow genealogist Amy Johnson Crow has thankfully created “52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks” to provide a weekly blog topic for those who want to start, enhance, continue, or revitalize their genealogy blogs.[1] I’ve been woefully neglectful of my own blog because, truth be told, I had nothing much to say. Now, each week in 2018, […]

I’m here in Norwich, England, the town where our 9th Great Grandfather and immigrant, Michael Metcalf, moved to as a young man. Here he married, engaged in business, and started a large family. Michael thrived in Norwich for almost twenty years before the ever shifting religious scene resulted in his being persecuted for refusing to […]

Ohio Infantryman

I’m not one to read another person’s diary, let alone shout its contents to the world. A diary is the first-person account of someone’s life, often written as the last act of the day, the diarist alone, in reflection, settling into the quiet night. It’s intimate, just the writer and the page, the writer deftly […]

Mention Cyndi’s List, I’m There! On Saturday, Cyndi Ingle of Cyndi’s List fame presented a whole day of genealogical enrichment at Colorado Genealogical Society‘s sold out spring seminar (which I am informed was really a joint effort between them and their CIG). I don’t know if they lucked into her or if she just always […]

Death Slaps Me, Hard For the first time since I’ve become the family genealogist, we had a death in the family. I mean a close death, one that deeply affected those nearest to me. The death was swift, unexpected, and heart-breaking. I suddenly found myself back in my old desert town, surrounded by a large, devastated […]

Tree Newbie

Tree Newbie Here

Mama said, “I’m leaving you the family tree.” In 1997, my mom started our family tree by arranging to receive Family Tree Maker Version 4.0 for Christmas. (Remember the colorful, HUGE boxes with the fold open front flap they’d pack a couple of CDs and a thin manual into?) I think it was her first, […]

If you attended RootsTech 2015 and you wandered into the Expo Hall past the heavily staffed, glitzy showcases found front and center, you may have noticed a few vendors (GenMarketplace, ancestorcloud, and RootsBid) promoting and demonstrating something you may have never heard of – an “online genealogy marketplace”. Don’t worry your pretty heads, that’s nothing […]

RootsTech 2015 Review (sorta)

Am back home from attending my first RootsTech conference in Salt Lake City and it was quite a trip. The compound name of it had caught my eye several months ago- “Roots” and “tech”, two of my favorite things, right? I’m an amateur genealogist with a software background. I love researching my family, both online […]

#52ancestors in 52 Weeks- Week 3- Longevity

#52Ancestors in 52 Weeks- Week 2- Favorite Photo

“Start” Me Up! (With Genealogy)- #52Ancestors in 52 Weeks- Week1

Michael Metcalf, Our English Immigrant Dude

Victor D. Clark’s Civil War Diary

Cyndi’s List Comes to Colorado

Death Visits A Genealogist

Why I’m Still a Family Tree Newbie

RootsTech 2015, Online Genealogy Marketplace Sites Review

RootsTech 2015 Review (sorta)

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