We’re already a quarter of the way through 2017. How did that happen? Seems like the days are passing ever more quickly. How did I do in March? Not so great in a couple of areas. And I didn’t write a goal-checking post for February’s work. Shame on me. Writing 3 blog posts each in Read More
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Chipping Away at The Brick Walls in My Family History
One of the most frustrating parts of any genealogical project is the inevitable brick walls researchers run into. Records disappear in a fire or other disaster. Names change through marriage, immigration, or misspellings. Sometimes people just disappear off the face of the earth. Place names change when towns are consolidated or die. Genealogists deal with Read More
My Hobby is Following Dead Presidents
Everyone needs a hobby, don’t they? Writers need something to do when they’re not writing besides hanging out on Facebook or some similar timesink. One of mine happens to involve following dead presidents. Back in the early days of the World Wide Web, a database guy in Massachusetts wondered where the money in his wallet Read More
I Wrote Something and People Liked It
It’s the first week of March and we’ve already seen temperatures in the 80s here in Oklahoma. Spring is coming early, it seems. We didn’t get much of the winter precipitation that we need, though, so we’ve already been under a burn ban twice in the last month. That doesn’t bode well for the summer. Read More