Genealogy… BOOK REVIEW: 30 May 2019May 30, 2019 If you are planning on spending your present (and perhaps some of your future) working in the past with the many aspects of genealogy and family history, you need this…
Genealogy… Now We #Genchat with TweetDeck 10 Jan 2019January 18, 2019 I participated in genchat for years using TweetChat, but in 2018 I started to co-host, and the little chat browser could not keep up. Nurph disappeared. Tchat.io was not always…
Genealogy… How Do We #GenChat? 23 Mar 2015January 10, 2019 I use my computer and cellphone. I use my personal computer to participate but keep my cell open on my Twitter page to locate stragglers or tweets from those forgetting the…
Genealogy… DNA Matches: Not For the Faint of Heart 29 Jan 2019 I have been trying to understand. Really, I have. Had purchased three major tests: AncestryDNA (2016), LivingDNA (2017) and FamilyTreeDNA (2018). Got the gobbledygook results from the first, and transferred…
BLOG PARTY BLOG PARTY: Hello, Sweet, January. Just Passin’ Through, Again? 14 Jan 2019January 29, 2019 Every New Year, it is the same thing: what can I do to expand/add to my genealogy research, or my blog? And every New Year, I focus on Change TAKING INVENTORY…
BLOG PARTY The October Harvest of Cousins 31 Oct 2018October 31, 2018 October is always busy in any home. Summer winds down and Fall saunters in, when the children go back to school, but, if you are empty nesters like MiLady and…
BLOG PARTY Home Schooled in DNA 30 Sep 2018January 18, 2019 It is definitely an experience. An extremely steep learning curve, if you do not possess a science degree. (I keep a large bottle of painkillers nearby to make up for my…
BLOG PARTY A Bit of Work, A Hospital Stay and A New DNA Cousin 15 Aug 2018March 1, 2019 This month has been a whirlwind of commotion: I found gainful employment (four days before MiLady's re-scheduled surgery!); and the day before I landed that job ... a new DNA…
Bitter-Sweet Luncheon… The Bitter-Sweet Luncheon, Pt II #AGSCon17 #OGSConf2017 24 May 2018May 24, 2018 We all have wished (at least once) for such an opportunity to speak with our loved ones/ ancestors; but it is not a wish for the faint of heart. Yes,…
NaPoWriMo2018… NaPoWriMo Index 2018 2 May 2018May 11, 2018 NaPoWriMo is National Poetry Writing Month. It occurs every year. I missed 2018, last month, because I was looking for work. I do not consider myself a writer, I have…
BLOG PARTY A Gift of Mother’s Love 2 May 2018May 6, 2018 © originally written 2001 (private) - unpublished The six children of Victoria, five daughters and a son; Were kept close to her heart that favoured no certain one -- Over…
BLOG PARTY Stolen: One Garden Trowel 18 Apr 2018January 18, 2019 It was Autumn. 1972. Mama Rabbit was preparing dinner, when I blustered through the door bringing in a swirl of fallen leaves and discarded candy wrappers. We found Papa John…
NaPoWriMo2018… #NaPoWriMo2018 (14) 14 Apr 2018August 20, 2018 AND THE ASSIGNMENT IS: write entries for an imaginary dream dictionary pick one (or more) of the following words, and write about what it means to dream of these things: TEACUP…
Your Roots Are Showing Junior’s 7 Patriots, 1: Daniel SKINNER 2 Apr 2018April 2, 2018 A while ago, I mentioned that I would help my son, Junior, trace his late grandmother's side of the family - not mine. When he was small, he had helped…
BLOG PARTY The Untimely Return of The Time Capsule Challenge 1 Apr 2018April 2, 2018 As a long-standing member of the Ontario Genealogical Society, I lapsed a few years while I was serving overseas, but have kept re-newing since my return home, and later, re-location…
Sir Leprechaun Rabbit A Wee Name Change AND A Merge 28 Mar 2018April 4, 2018 Yes, I know the Twitter poll was greatly against a name change, but I didn't really change it much - I cheated "Rock of Ages: Grave Concerns" (the blog) is…
BLOG PARTY Snowy was Lookout 4 Mar 2018March 28, 2018 It was mid-July 2001, and MiLady’s visit to Ontario was ending. The 90-minute car ride to the aeroport was sullen. Very odd when you think of three little boys, all…
BLOG PARTY Shaping Up with Nostalgia 30 Jan 2018May 6, 2018 “Rabbit? RABBIT!” the Olde Banshee wailed, before poking me in the ribs. Startled, I poorly managed to stay in my chair. “Oh, you’re NOT dead,” she pouted. “Nostalgia! I’m trying…
Bitter-Sweet Luncheon… The Bitter-Sweet Luncheon, Part 1 #AGSCon17 #OGSConf2017 9 Apr 2017May 24, 2018 The Bitter-Sweet Luncheon is a completely hypothetical activity: Genealogists gather to dine over lunch, one on one, with their most elusive ancestor -- regardless of Time and Space in order to gather…