One memory I have of my grandma is her baking what she called “Mayonnaise Cake”. Recently when I was having my remembrance birthday for my mom, I couldn’t think of her favorite cake, so I decided to make the cake that was made so often by my grandma. I do not have my grandma’s original […]
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This feature photo you might think is a remembrance for Veteran’s or Remembrance Day. For me it is a remembrance for my mom. There was a certain section in her vegetable garden that she always had her poppies. I recently found an old packet of poppy seeds that my mother gave me probably over 30
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In the previous blogs I have been going step by step on how to add your story/memory or a photo with a story to a person in your tree by using several media methods with Ancestry® . In this blog I will show you how to convert a PDF to a JPG file type so
Our family has been hankering for grandma’s applesauce, but we had a problem: she kept the simple recipe in her head and had passed away in 2011. True to her lingo we Whomped-it! If you are looking for a slightly tart chunky applesauce recipe with apple peels then you have found the right recipe. With
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In my previous blog posts: Do Special Holiday/Celebrations and Ancestry Have Something in Common? and How to Add Photo Media to Your Ancestry Tree, I discussed why storytelling/memories should be added to your tree in the media forms of either a PDF or photo and how to do so. In this blog I will continue
In my recent blog: “Do Special Holidays/Celebrations and Ancestry Have Something in Common?“, I mentioned that the storytelling should be attached to your online ancestry tree as either a document or a photo. In this “How to” tutorial, I will walk you through the process of how to add photo media to your tree in
In a previous blog post I mentioned cherry pie and thought I would follow it up with another interest of mine, which is cooking. I am sure most people keep their own personal cookbook with all the alterations they’ve made to their recipes. I started entering my recipes in 1991 and now my book is
Let me tell you how special holidays/celebrations and ancestry have something in common with a few family stories. A couple of weeks ago, we celebrated my husband’s birthday. Every year we have his favorite celebration pie. Most people have a special cake, but not my husband. Every year since we have been married, almost 36
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When working on your tree you will inevitably run into a dilemma on how to document a relative’s relationship with someone. The relationship scenarios I have encountered most often in my tree are adoption, same sex marriage, and with modern DNA technology, findings like who you thought was your biological parent was not. Some family
This true little story happened over five years ago. At the time I was working on my husband’s ancestry lines. I noticed a genealogy tree on Ancestry® that had the wrong information, so I contacted the person who created it through the Ancestry message system, and I gave them all the information so they could locate
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