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Sunday, May 18th, 2008Thanks to all of you who visited and commented on my last post. Lorri, Ben will be living in Geneva. Hannah, I’ll email you about the math and phonics. I can only imagine how precocious your daughter might be.
I just got back from The Conference in the States in Kansas City last night. It [...]
Family News
Friday, May 9th, 2008I don’t usually post much about the family because some of them don’t like finding out that people they don’t know seem to know all about them when meeting them in other environments.
Last Thursday-Sunday, the girls and I went up to Indiana to visit Ben and one family we’ve known through the internet for [...]
Fires and Bibles
Monday, April 21st, 2008I wonder how many old family Bibles were destroyed by fires. Supposedly one of my ancestors Clement Nance had a whole trunkfull of family papers that were destroyed by a house fire in the New Albany, Indiana area.
I recently received my first-ever-ordered pension packet on my Civil War ancestor Albertus Van Hoesen. With the [...]
Genealogy and Vacations
Monday, April 21st, 2008I’m a member of New England Historic Genealogical Society and today received an issue of the publication sent to members. In one article one of the directors in NEHGS tells how she enjoys hearing how people get into genealogy. She tells one man’s story of the influence his father had been in sparking his interest. [...]
My response to a response
Friday, April 18th, 2008I was looking on the local paper’s Web site and ran across an article written by Mona Charon about why the public schools are failing to teach ethics or character. There were three replies, one of which was the obligatory, “Oh, if only parents were doing their job….” which seems is the stock answer [...]
NARA Records
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008Yay, yay, yay! I just checked on the status of my order for the military records for one ancestor and the pension file for another, and they have been found, photocopied and are awaiting shipment. On my last order, they were “awaiting shipment” even after I got them, so I have hopes that [...]
NARA Records
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008Yay, yay, yay! I just checked on the status of my order for the military records for one ancestor and the pension file for another, and they have been found, photocopied and are awaiting shipment. On my last order, they were “awaiting shipment” even after I got them, so I have hopes that [...]
Internet
Monday, March 31st, 2008Our internet was out since about 2 pm. I was working using my genealogy program tonight, and just as I was about to turn the computer off, I heard that wonderful signal of incoming email! I don’t know from first-hand knowledge, but was told that a cable was damaged when either a tornado [...]
Funny video
Saturday, March 29th, 2008Corrie at Pineapple Pundit has a funny video uploaded at her blog. Those of you who work in cubicles or small spaces or get frustrated with electronic equipment will particularly appreciate it.
I especially liked the part when after attempting to print something unsuccessfully on the office printer, a frustrated man yanks his monitor away from [...]
What Book Am I?
Friday, March 28th, 2008The Deputy Headmistress posted a link for this book quiz. The questions were interesting. DHM, maybe there is a way that the questions adjust as you answer first one question and so on. So a person answering the first differently may get a different pair for the second and so on.
You’re Watership Down!
by Richard [...]