Helping the present understand the past
I’m loving being a member of the Geneabloggers community. There are so many new blogs for me to look at so it was very difficult to make a decision on which one to highlight for today’s Follow Friday post. Today’s lucky winner is A Family Tapestry. Jacqi’s post on The Other Family was a great…
Welcome to another edition of Tombstone Tuesday! Today we’re not straying very far from last week’s tombstone. It belongs to my maternal grandfather, Edward Bell Conwell, Jr. Edward was the second of eight children of Edward Bell Conwell, Sr. and Zella May (McCabe) Conwell. He had five brothers (one older, four younger) and two sisters…
Since getting back into working on my family history I’ve been searching for ways to be mobile and stay organized while being mobile. I migrated from a desktop to a laptop several years ago and, while I love my Family TreeMaker program on my laptop, I just felt the laptop was still a little too…
Purely by chance I stumbled across Carolina Girl’s blog. I was searching something genealogy-related (hey, what can I say, I’ve slept since then!) and ran across her post “Blogging + Cousin Bait = Mystery Picture Success!”. It was such an enjoyable read that I started looking at her other posts and now I subscribe to…
Welcome to Around the Town Thursday! Around the Town Thursday is a way for me to highlight interesting, fun or useful places around my beautiful hometown of Kansas City. In the spotlight today is one of my favorite places: The National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial. Liberty Memorial (during maintenance) The National World…