Collecting My Thoughts

In sorting files, I found this in my genealogy file, source unknown, but the handwriting looks like my father's and I know he visited ce...

I can't recall when I signed up for Family Search, the huge Mormon data base of genealogy, but every now and then I get an interesting ...

  I noticed one cable news channel was calling the President's tweets about her phony claim, "racist." What about her depict...

About 6 months ago I got an e-mail from a stranger whose father I barely knew, but we'd attended the same high school. His father was de...

https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/article/61/2/190/542517/Does-Having-Children-Extend-Life-Span-A   The Journals of Gerontology: Se...

I'm drawing a blank about what my parents may have said about their Thanksgiving holidays.  And for myself as a kid, I don't remembe...

 When I was a child I began looking through family Bibles at my grandparents. I determined that both my parents were seventh generation A...

There used to be a lot discussion on the Danner genealogy forum about Blythe Danner (like whether she was one of ours), but if her daughter ...

2nd great grand uncle, buried at Stones River National Battleground, died 1863 according to Find a Grave. Thanks to “cousin” Berta whose hus...

            My mother and aunt used to go to the cemetery in Ashton, Illinois, to place flowers on Memorial Day.  Before them, my grandpar...

While filling in gaps in the genealogy database I came across a transcribed document on the Internet from 2011, not available the last time ...

I’ve been doing some genealogy this week.  I move back and forth between recent, ancient, mine and my husband’s. Find a Grave on the interne...

About a decade ago Jeanie decided to research her roots, and discovered the George family of Pennsylvania from which I am also descended...

The week (always on Saturday) started out in the breathless heat. I wondered how I would enjoy the wonderful program planned for the Hoover,...

This came today. "As your family tree grows, you need software that will grow with it. In Family Tree Maker 2011 you'll find the f...

These aren't my memories, of course, but about 106 years ago the two oldest sons, Josiah and George, of my great-grandparents Jacob and...

I can't even describe how much I dislike my Family Tree Maker 2008. I had no problem with a much earlier version--nothing like adding i...

I found some narrow leg, boot cut Chico's jeans at the Discovery Shop for $7.50 yesterday. Very comfortable, but I'd never pay $70.0...

I guess it's nothing to blog or brag about that while in Illinois in the parking lot of the Mexican restaurant I ran into my first cousi...