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Why Could They Not Be Original?

3 Nov 2020
So, here I am, Day 34 of Self-Isolation, COVID-19 still running rampant and MiLady Rabbit has been contemplating my demise. (To date: unsuccessfully.). "Go play on your genealogy computer!" she…
Genealogy…

BOOK REVIEW: Planning A Future

30 May 2019October 14, 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…
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Fallen Leaves – an (exhaustive) observation about cemeteries

3 Nov 2020November 3, 2020
Thinking back, I wish I had a camera when I was younger. I would have used it well; taking pictures of the many exquisite memorials that graced the dozens of…
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 2018October 23, 2020
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…

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