Helping the present understand the past
My blog has suffered a bit since I began ProGen 18 months ago but I’m happy to say that I completed ProGen last month and it was absolutely worth all the work! Just in time too because I was, once again, fortunate enough to attend the NGS conference this year. The ability to attend national conferences such…
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Today is the 74th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The event shocked the population of a nation who had been enjoying a typical American Sunday…until they received news of the attack that damaged or sank the entire U.S. fleet which resided in Pearl Harbor. The devastation that occurred wasn’t contained to property or…
Time flies when you’re having fun! I realized this weekend how long it’s been since I posted on my blog. But just because this blog has lacked activity, doesn’t mean yours truly hasn’t been busy. On the contrary, I’ve been hopping on my genealogy since attending NGS in May. Here are a few things I’ve…
In May 2014 the spousal unit and I paid a visit to the Iowa kin en route from Nebraska back home. I was working a conference in Nebraska and it was a great opportunity to stop in, see family, and talk some genealogy. They were gracious enough to let me photograph and scan some items in…
How many times have we heard that from someone? What was the score for that baseball game? Google it! How do you take care of an orchid? Google it! How do I locate my ancestors? Google it! Okay, no, it’s really NOT that easy (don’t all genealogists wish it was?) but Google can definitely be…