This planning almost didn’t start, as I wasn’t feeling like going because the real reason for going was to meet my cousin Stevie — but he passed away on January first. I wrote a tribute post for him, but the idea of traveling without that meeting ahead of me left me feeling undecided. What finally […]
Maybe you’re like me—someone with two aging computers. One is a desktop that originally ran Windows 8 but received the upgrade to Windows 10. Now, it just doesn’t cut the computer grade, and as of October 14, 2025, it’s officially unsupported. My laptop started as Windows 10 and upgraded to Windows 11. But its days
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Ten years ago, I contacted a tree that was copying my records. If you use Ancestry.com, then you know what I am talking about. This was a method of mine to hopefully find more information for my tree — to collaborate. I never thought Stevie — my nickname for him, like when kids knock on
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I’ve been so busy with the Pickle Patch that I never got around to blogging about my upcoming family fall ancestry trip. You could say this trip took up a lot of my time to plan. I made sure we included some non-ancestry activities, which I labeled in my mind as “everyday living ancestry.” With
I haven’t paid much attention to Ancestry as I have been working steadily on my research on my maternal grandfather’s mother’s lines through the records on FamilySearch. I finally figured out which Michael Kubinski was mine, which I mentioned in my AI article. Since I figured this puzzle out and decided I’d better get cracking
Do you ever get stuck on an ancestry problem where you have no one to ask about it or you feel uncomfortable always emailing your friend for help? Now, I could schedule a free 20-minute consultation, which I have done once. Sometimes, though, I just need to buckle down and work on whatever the problem
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You are probably thinking that something broke on my new computer, and I lost my genealogy work. I can safely say my computer is fine, but my genealogy thumb drive is toast. To me this was a freak accident as I have never had a thumb drive break. This drive is but one of many
A couple months ago, when I was giving blood with Vitalent, they mentioned that if you go to any of their locations and give blood you get eclipse glasses. I gave blood at my church on their mobile bus so no eclipse glasses. At the time I was thinking why do I want these glasses.
On my dad’s birthday, I received a text from my sister thanking me for the remembrance video that I made when he died. It had two of his favorite singers: Frank Sinatra and Elvis. It is up on YouTube as a private video, and she has permission to view it. I came back with: “Do
One thing you may not know about me is that I’m an early riser. Usually I am up around 5am. Yes, this is super early, but I have been doing this a long time. When I was working, it was my research time before work. Yes, I was very obsessed with my genealogy. Being an
