In the business world, downsizing carries ominous undertones, because it usually means someone’s losing their job. It can happen for any number of reasons, from a national or worldwide economic downturn to technology and automation making jobs redundant. But the result is the same: the organization shrinks. Ideally, it becomes a more efficient organization, more Read More
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Reading and Writing and Girl Scout Cookies
Sorry for the short post this week. It’s Girl Scout cookie season and I’ve got two daughters selling cookies. One of them is in a travel troop, so we’ve been busy! What’s a travel troop? Glad you asked (you did ask, didn’t you?). Normally when a Girl Scout sells cookies, a portion goes to her Read More
Genealogy Profile: Johann Carl Müller, My Great-Grandfather
Johann Carl Müller or John Charles Mueller is my paternal great-grandfather. The fifth of eight children born to Johann Heinrich Müller and Susanna Gertrude Wenzel, I believe he was the first of their children to immigrate to the United States.
Why Do I Search For Dead People?
Why do I do this? Why do I put the time and effort and money into discovering who the people in my past are? Why do I care about finding people who aren’t directly related to me? That question hit me the other day as I was sifting through a frustratingly confusing search for my Read More
Genealogy Profile: Who was Michael Singleback?
This is a summary of the very confusing information I have about Michael Singleback. I believe he is the maternal great-grandfather of my ex-wife.