My Adorable Grandparents
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2w ago
For several months I've been working on a large family history project. I've been scanning photos, slides, and negatives of various sizes that I inherited from my parents and my maternal grandparents. I've also been scanning photos and negatives from my own collection.  I finished scanning all of my parents' and grandparents' slides and have lately been focused on scanning photos and negatives. Some of the images I've scanned from my parents' and maternal grandparents' collections have been new-to-me images. In other words, I don't remember seeing them before. So that has been fun! Tod ..read more
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Going Down Memory Lane ~ My Storyworth Book
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7M ago
On Mother's Day 2022 my children and their spouses gave me a one-year gift subscription to Storyworth. Storyworth is a service that provides a way for people to write stories from their lives each week and then have these stories printed in a book. Each week Storyworth sent an email to me with a question about my life. I could either answer that question or choose another question to answer. Storyworth included a list of question options on their website. For more question ideas I also turned to FamilySearch's Blog Post, 52 Questions in 52 Weeks: Writing about Your Life Has Never Been Easie ..read more
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A Favorite RootsTech 2023 Class Session
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11M ago
One of my favorite RootsTech 2023 class sessions was "How to Milk a Source for All It's Worth" by Amy Johnson Crow. It was an excellent class. I highly recommend this class whether you are a beginning, intermediate, or advanced family history researcher.  The description for this class is as follows: "If you’re finding a record, pulling out a fact, and then moving on to your next search, you’re probably leaving valuable clues behind. See how to get everything you can out of each source that you use." In her class, Amy Johnson Crow pointed out that a source can help us with our immediate ..read more
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My 11th Blogiversary
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1y ago
Oops! I missed my blogiversary again. Ugh! My eleventh blogiversary was actually on April 5th. Wow! It's hard to believe it's already been eleven years since I began this blog. THANK YOU Thank you to my wonderful readers for taking the time to read my posts and for leaving comments over the years. I appreciate your support very much! BLOGGING YEAR IN REVIEW Here are my posts from the last year (since my last blogiversary). I Did It! I'm a College Graduate! - May 9, 2022 My AncestryDNA Ethnicity Inheritance Results - July 13, 2022 RootsTech 2023 Influencer - November 1, 20 ..read more
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My RootsTech 2023 Recap ~ Saturday
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1y ago
Welcome to my RootsTech 2023 recap for Saturday, March 4, 2023. If you missed my RootsTech recaps for Thursday, March 2, 2023 and Friday, March 3, 2023, you can read them by clicking on these links: THURSDAY and FRIDAY. As I mentioned in my previous recap, I attended RootsTech 2023 virtually. Saturday, March 4, 2023 My first class session on Saturday morning was "Expanding Your Family Tree with SideView and More AncestryDNA Innovations" presented by Crista Cowan. It was a great class! During her class she said, "So one of the things that I love about DNA is that when somebody shows up on yo ..read more
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My RootsTech 2023 Recap ~ Friday
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1y ago
Welcome to my RootsTech 2023 recap for Friday, March 3, 2023. If you missed my RootsTech recap for Thursday, March 2, 2023, you can read it by clicking HERE. As I mentioned in my previous recap, I attended RootsTech 2023 virtually. Friday, March 3, 2023 My first class session on Friday morning was Lisa Louise Cooke's "Reconstruct Your Ancestor's Lives with Google." It was a fantastic class! One of the things Lisa talked about was using Google Earth Pro to create a family history tour of our ancestors' lives. I really need to give that a try! She also shared that Google Earth Pro is now free ..read more
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My RootsTech 2023 Recap ~ Thursday
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1y ago
Welcome to my RootsTech 2023 recap for Thursday, March 2, 2023. I attended RootsTech virtually this year. Many of my genealogy friends attended in-person and from their social media posts it looks like they had a lot of fun at RootsTech, which is awesome! From my experience attending RootsTech in-person in the past, there really is a feeling of energy and excitement at RootsTech when attending in-person. Before RootsTech began I looked through the class sessions that would be available for us virtual attendees and then created my Show Planner, or as it is called on the RootsTech website, My P ..read more
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Exploring the RootsTech 2023 App - Part 2
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1y ago
  Welcome to Part 2 of Exploring the RootsTech 2023 App! I thought I'd go ahead and show the app's homepage again for those who missed Part 1. If you haven't read Part 1, you can see what else you've missed by clicking HERE. Next up in our exploration of the RootsTech 2023 app is a look at the Expo Hall. Clicking on "Expo Hall" takes us to the Expo Hall map.  This map is zoomable and interactive. Here's a screenshot of a zoomed-in portion of the Expo Hall map. By clicking on one of the exhibitors on the map, you can learn about the exhibitor and can add them to your Show ..read more
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Exploring the RootsTech 2023 App - Part 1
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1y ago
RootsTech 2023 is right around the corner. In fact, it begins next week on Thursday, March 2, 2023. Are you attending RootsTech? I am attending virtually this year. If you haven't registered yet, there's still time. To register for RootsTech 2023, click HERE. Virtual attendance is FREE and in-person attendance is currently $98. Did you know that RootsTech has an app? Yep, it does. I have downloaded the RootsTech 2023 mobile app and have been exploring it lately. Today I'm going to give you a tour of the RootsTech 2023 app. Here is a screenshot of the app's homepage. As you can see, the app ..read more
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RootsTech 2023 Keynote Speaker ~ Sean Astin
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1y ago
Have you heard the exciting news? Sean Astin will be a keynote speaker at RoostTech 2023! Yep, that Sean Astin, who played Samwise Gamgee in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I love those movies! Sean Astin is a successful actor who has played various roles in film and TV. Sean Astin will be the RootsTech 2023 keynote speaker on Saturday, March 4, 2023 at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. If you haven't registered for RootsTech 2023 yet, there's still time. Here's the link to register: Register for RootsTech 2023. Thanks for stopping by! Jana © 2023 Copyright by ..read more
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