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...
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
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...