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 […]
In my post: Take 2: my dog tail makes a new ancestry tale, I mentioned that my next post would be the results of Dru and Piper’s DNA. With all the holidays getting in the way, it took time to get us all together so we could find out what breeds they were as they are
Recently on Ancestry, I was looking at my mother’s lines when I saw a hint that went to another tree. This intrigued me as on these lines I can only go back to my 2nd great-grandparents, which their information is very sketchy. Looking at his profile, he was from Germany. Inside, I was thinking ‘yes!
In a previous post, I talked about Mocha a Foster/adoption that went totally wrong. At the end, I mentioned we took Mocha to the animal hospital and sadly never saw her again. The rescue group did eventually update her status. I am happy to report Mocha is well and making dog memories with her forever
On July 16th, I received a message from my sister on our sibling group text: “Happy Heavenly Birthday Mom!!!” with heart emojis all around. Later, my brother texted “89.” At the time, I was finishing up at the pickle patch, but later I thought of this memory and texted “Wow! One cake I remember her
As I sit in my computer lounge chair writing this post, I am without power or, should I say, limited power, because of a generator. On Sunday, a thunderstorm came and knocked out power for a lot of the area and by Tuesday we were still without power, but it is hot. The next morning
Recently, while volunteering at my local FamilySearch Center, a new patron came by. She has a professional business where she locates documents for her clients to qualify for certain societies. She mentioned SAR and DAR, and I have to confess that I drew a blank of what SAR was. Of course, once she told me
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I am not sure how it started, but we decided around my milestone, 60th birthday that we would go to our local animal shelter and adopt a puppy. We have been empty pupsters, since our daughter moved out with her dog, Piper. We consider Piper our family dog, as she was after Shadow, our first
Are you a hint chaser? Let me explain. If your tree is on ancestry, do you only do the leaf icon (hints) that are at the top of the page? I was curious as I don’t look very often and never solely work on hints, but according to Ancestry, I have 84,670 hints. That is
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In my first post on this blog, I talked about why I started my tree in 2009 and how I needed a tree to figure out how I was related to my DNA cousins. You can say I learned genealogy and citing my sources on the fly. Do I cite like a professional genealogist? Probably
