*Warning: Heavy Load Ahead*It's not often we get company out here in the SC backwoods, and no one outside the family ever gets to see our Christmas decorations. And since I don't have any heirloom ornaments, or homespun stories to tell, I thought I would take this opportunity to "show off" some of our...
Saturday, December 1, 2007
Your branches green delight us
People, I have fallen behind and I can't catch up!The Christmas holiday is upon us, and I still have a bucket of Halloween candy sitting on my china cabinet. So, in an attempt to bring my inner elf out and up to date, I danced around the house to some holiday tunes today. Not one of which was O Tannenbaum...
Sunday, November 18, 2007
The "161" meme
Of course you would catch me reading nothing as titillating as Jasia or as instructional as Miriam, but I've been tagged not once but twice to share the 6th sentence on page 161 of the book I'm currently reading which is The Most Fearful Ordeal: Original Coverage of the Civil War by Writers and Reporters of The New York Times, and the 6th sentence from page 161 is...*drumroll*"The battery of Capt....
Thursday, November 8, 2007
You knew this when you were five
Remember when you were a kid and your mom would nudge you, or your dad would thump you, whenever you forgot to mind your manners? Well, consider this a slap because some of us have forgotten what our parents taught us.A lot of hard work, long hours and money goes into the compilation of a family history, and yet there are literally thousands of genealogists who gladly share everything they know with...
Monday, November 5, 2007
Calling all historical photo enthusiasts
It was the dress that first caught my eye. I had just finished scanning the portrait of the unknown pair and was starting the laborious job of scanning the photograph of Leonard, Sally, Mattie and Grace (laborious because the image is captured on paper so thin, it moves around every time I lower the...
Friday, November 2, 2007
Taming the WorldCat
When WorldCat first launched, I remember thinking it would be even better if users could save search results for future reference, and now we can.Make a list or two (or 20!) @ WorldCat.orgI started two bibliography lists today, and found the new features intuitive and easy to work with, but to take full advantage, read over the help pa...
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Happy Halloween, Everyone!
I also want to take this opportunity to thank Apple, Becky, Chris, Craig, Denise, Jasia, Maven, Miriam, Randy and Steve for such a warm welcome back. Thank you all! You are the greatest! And now, let's go trick or treati...
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Getting the dish in a little known source
Two months ago, I was hired to make photocopies of The Stroller's Cook Book, a supplement our local newspaper The Spartanburg Herald-Journal (originally, The Spartanburg Herald) has published annually since July 1958.
I hadn't seen one of these cook books in years, and didn't know before taking the...
Friday, October 26, 2007
Was Grandma stepping out, or what?
Morning, Aunt Elsie. How you doing today? Good, I'm glad to hear it. You got a minute? OK, well, the DNA results are in. I know, it did seem like it was gonna take forever. Uhm...well...the news ain't great. Yep, you guessed it--no matches to anyone in the TURNER surname group. Yeah, I was disappointed too. But listen, we do have some matches...uhm...outside the TURNER group.Murphy's Law AppliedFrom...
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Second mouse gets the cheese
While gathering links for the previous entry, I noticed Elizabeth Shown Mills' Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace (hardcover) is now available at Amazon.com for considerably less ($38.81 as of today) than this early bird paid. The book also qualifies for free Super Saving Shippi...
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
A lot of things different
Who of us has no regrets, nothing we would change if given half a chance?Genealogically speaking, there's a lot of things I'd do different.I'd start when I was younger. My biggest regret is that I never had the chance to talk to my grandma's brother. He died in 1994, and I never even met him.I'd buy a book on day one, a genealogy how-to book like George Morgan's How to Do Everything with Your Genealogy,...
The mistress of erratic is back
She's a bit skittish, that one. She's as apt to bolt and run as she is to write.Yet another genealogy blog... Will this one last, you ask. In the immortal words of the late Aldous Huxley, "Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead." A comforting thought, y...