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Saturday Fun: What is this?!

Posted on April 28, 2012 at 7:32 pm In Miscellany · · · · Add Comment
I have another ‘what is this?’ post for you all! Anyone who knows anything about antique jewelry – likely connected to the military – may have fun with this one. I have a friend looking for any history or context possible on this piece of jewelry: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=ay4z0o&s=6 My friend has this to say: “My grandmother [...]
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McDonald1940a

Getting My Geek On, pt. 3: The McDonalds in the 1940 Census

Posted on April 27, 2012 at 5:25 pm In Family Data · Tagged With: 1940 United States Census, McDonald · · · Add Comment
In the first two posts on my series about my forays into the 1940 census, I wrapped up my paternal grandfather and grandmother’s families. In this, the third in the series, I’ll be moving on to my my maternal grandfather’s family, the McDonalds. While growing up, I was constantly reminded of the dichotomy of my [...]
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The Will Perrett family

Getting My Geek On, pt. 2: The Perretts in the 1940 Census

Posted on April 23, 2012 at 9:53 pm In Family Data · Tagged With: 1940 United States Census, Perrett · · · Add Comment
In Part 2 of ‘Getting My Geek On’, the recap of my adventures looking for family in the 1940 census, I want to move on to my next easiest to find relatives, my paternal grandmother’s family. Like the Elliotts in Part 1, the Perretts lived in pretty much the same town and area for several [...]
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Elliotts in 1940

Getting My Geek On, pt. 1: The Elliotts in the 1940 Census

Posted on April 23, 2012 at 6:15 pm In Family Data · Tagged With: 1940 United States Census, Elliott · · · Add Comment
Three weeks ago today, like most other genealogists and lots of other random people, I set out to get my geek on and make a website go haywire. Ok, well, not really. We meant to get our geek on, but we didn’t mean to make the 1940 census website go haywire or slow down like molasses or [...]
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A New Look and A New Start

Posted on April 6, 2012 at 10:08 pm In Miscellany · · · · Add Comment
  As the title says, I’ve done a little reworking of my blog with a new theme and a new look, though not TOO new. I rather liked the old one! But a little spring cleaning is good! I’ve got new blog posts planned in the next few days about my 1940 census discoveries and [...]
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Reclaiming the Mojo

Posted on January 13, 2012 at 9:12 pm In Miscellany · · · · 3 Comments
I’ve been absent from the blogging world since November, more or less. Part of that was due to holidays and dealing with my parents’ health issues, but part of it was pure writer’s block. But I am here to tell you a cure has been found for writer’s block! That’s right, a CURE! Every Friday [...]
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Society Saturday: Help! What is this?

Posted on November 26, 2011 at 10:04 am In NPCHS · · · · 8 Comments
Goodness! Being ill and work craziness and oncoming holidays all add together to make for one very absent blogger! But I’m back! And being that today is Saturday and I’m assisting the historical society with their accessioning again, I have a very important question for you: What IS this?             [...]
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Society Saturday: Volunteered Lately?

Posted on October 16, 2011 at 10:38 pm In NPCHS · Tagged With: Howe, Idaho, Lewiston · · · Add Comment
A few weeks ago, I attended the Idaho Genealogical Society’s annual meeting in a nearby town, and I carpooled with several ladies from the local genealogical society, which I had heard of, but not managed to connect with yet. Their monthly meeting was this week, so I attended, a bit nervous, but glad to see [...]
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Society Saturday: The Stylin’ J.M. Howe

Posted on October 8, 2011 at 1:39 pm In NPCHS · Tagged With: Howe letters · · · Add Comment
I finally was able to get back to volunteering at the Nez Perce County Historical Society today after several weeks away due to vacations, family problems and simple scheduling problems. I spent two hours down in the basement again, but I wasn’t de-framing photos this time. Instead, I was sorting and labelling items that had [...]
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I Lied – I’m Pulling This Bus Into the Next Rest Stop

Posted on October 5, 2011 at 5:57 pm In Miscellany · Tagged With: ancestry.com · · · 2 Comments
In my last post, I wandered tangentially through the ideas that have been percolating in my head about the public image of genealogy, the place of professionals and companies like Ancestry.com. It was, and is, a humble rambling of my own thoughts, an attempt to clarify them, and also an attempt to engender discussion about [...]
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