39th Carnival of Genealogy is Posted

For those few of my readers who are not also subscribers to Jasia’s Creative Gene, she posted the 39th Edition of the Carnival of Genealogy there yesterday. The topic was “New Year’s Resolutions,” and as always, there are some fabulous and interesting posts written by 21 bloggers, including some first-time COGgers (my own submission [...]

39th Carnival of Genealogy is Posted

For those few of my readers who are not also subscribers to Jasia’s Creative Gene, she posted the 39th Edition of the Carnival of Genealogy there yesterday. The topic was “New Year’s Resolutions,” and as always, there are some fabulous and interesting posts written by 21 bloggers, including some first-time COGgers (my own submission [...]

Frugal Genealogy

Jasia of Creative Gene has written a thoughtful and interesting five-part series called “What is Your Genealogy Worth to You?” (click here to go to the first post in the series). She starts off with “Have you ever thought about how much your genealogy addiction costs you? What price have you paid to collect [...]

Frugal Genealogy

Jasia of Creative Gene has written a thoughtful and interesting five-part series called “What is Your Genealogy Worth to You?” (click here to go to the first post in the series). She starts off with “Have you ever thought about how much your genealogy addiction costs you? What price have you paid to collect [...]

Another Must-Visit Website: Shoestring Genealogy

With my new layout and then the hubbub over the Ancestry.com situation, you may not have noticed that I have added another site to my Must-Visit Websites area (left-hand sidebar). “Shoestring Genealogy focuses on lowering the costs of research and raising the quality of information obtained,” according to their mission statement. As a family [...]

Another Must-Visit Website: Shoestring Genealogy

With my new layout and then the hubbub over the Ancestry.com situation, you may not have noticed that I have added another site to my Must-Visit Websites area (left-hand sidebar). “Shoestring Genealogy focuses on lowering the costs of research and raising the quality of information obtained,” according to their mission statement. As a family [...]

Another New Form – Family History Center Look Ups

I just posted another form on my website that I use whenever I do a record lookup at my local Family History Center for Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness and other genealogy volunteer groups. It’s the Family History Center (FHC) Look Ups form.
Last night, I went to my local Family History Center and fulfilled [...]

A Little Observation

T.K. at Before My Time wrote a summary of her week of organizing in her post “A Sorted Past, Week 1: A Commencement Program.” Clever word play, there, T.K.! She asked if any of us who have joined her in her organizing challenge of “Tidy Your Documents Month” had rediscovered anything while sorting.
I [...]

$10 Off Copying or Printing at Staples

A friend e-mailed me a coupon for $10 off a copying or printing of $10 or more at Staples (in-store only). He used his and said he only had to pay for the sales tax and the amount over the $10.00 he spent in copies. I have a bunch of forms and document [...]

Another New Form – Family History Center Look Ups

I just posted another form on my website that I use whenever I do a record lookup at my local Family History Center for Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness and other genealogy volunteer groups. It’s the Family History Center (FHC) Look Ups form.
Last night, I went to my local Family History Center and fulfilled [...]