Helping the present understand the past
I love Around the Town Thursday. I love being able to highlight really cool places, especially if they’re located in my hometown of Kansas City. One of those really cool places is a fantastic little diner (or diners since there’s more than one) located in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. Town Topic Hamburgers has been featured…
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It’s Tuesday again and you know what that means…that’s right, it’s another edition of Tombstone Tuesday. Continuing with the family buried in Anselm Lutheran Cemetery, today’s tombstone belongs to my paternal great-grandmother, Ida Marie (Krueger) Altman. Tombstone of Ludwig, Ida and Clarence Harvey Anselm Lutheran Cemetery in Anselm, Ransom, North Dakota Ida Marie was the…
Continuing my series on family tree apps for iGadgets, this week I’m reviewing LiveHistory. If you’re just tuning in, I’ve previously reviewed GedView and Heredis. LiveHistory LiveHistory is still considered a fairly young app. I can’t recall where I learned about LiveHistory at, maybe FaceBook, maybe a blog post on another blog, but they were…
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I have been bitten by the blog bug. Ever since discovering genealogy blogs I’ve been looking for good ones to follow, so Geneabloggers’ blog listing is a genealogical Christmas for me. I’m slowly making my way through the listing of over 3,000 blogs and finding some really good ones! I am so excited about this…
Welcome to another edition of Around the Town Thursday! I’m a loud-and-proud-whino so I thought I might introduce you to one of my absolute most favorite places…Holy-Field Vineyard & Winery. A family-owned winery, Holy-Field is an award-winning winery located in Basehor, Kansas. According to their About Us page: “The vineyard is planted with Native American…
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