It’s Derby Day! I aim to blog almost every day, and I don’t want to let a supremely busy weekend confound me. Last night I went with good friends down to the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta to see Iris Dement. If you don’t know her, she’s a country/folk singer from Arkansas. She closed the show
So I started my genealogy blog last Saturday. In that week, these are the things I found that surprised, impressed or amused me, and I thought I’d share… Posts As someone obsessed with words and their colorful meanings, I was enamored with Old Diseases: Early Medical Terms in Historical Newspapers on GenealogyBank.com. Having recently come
As I mentioned in a previous post, 1928 was rough for my West family. Their patriarch had died the year before, and their matriarch and two sons – including my Papa Ed’s father – all died in 1928. We’ve had years like that in my lifetime, so I know they were not happy campers back
Family history research is not cheap. These are just a few of the things I’ve spent money on in order to do family research in my time: Books Copies of documents (some courthouses charge as much as $1.00/copy) Ancestry.com membership Ordering records Travel to research Tape and records to record interviews (back in the day)