My Trails into the Past

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:  It's  Saturday Night  again -  Time for some more  Genealogy Fun!! Here is our assignment this week from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings :   1) Was Genea-Santa good to you?  What genealogy gifts did you receive for Christmas this year? Here’s mine: To be honest, I did not receive any genealogy gifts from my family, because I had just purchased a few items before Christmas for myself. This made it easier for my husband, so he did not have to go searching for something for me. Recent books Visiting Your Ancestral Town: Walk in the Footsteps of Your Ancestors (3 rd ed) by Carolyn Schott. The first half of the book is about researching to locate the ancestral town, and then tips about going to visit it. Our Quaker Ancestors: Finding Them in Quaker Records (2 nd ed) by Ellen Thomas Berry and David Allen Berry. I teach about church records but I know nothing about Quakers, so I want to learn! Germans in...

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:  It's Saturday Night again -  Time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Our assignment this eve of Christmas Eve from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings is to: 1) Pick out a genealogy-oriented Christmas gift for someone you know, admire, appreciate, or love. It could be for a family member, someone in the genealogy community, or a friend or colleague. Describe your genealogy gift to them. Here's mine: Since the time our family got together at the Spaghetti Factory and showed them the article published in the Pittsburg Post-Dispatch of my mother standing next to Louis Armstrong, who came to perform for a Junior Woman’s Club benefit for purchasing an electrically controlled bed for the Pittsburg Community Hospital. My nephew, Ryan, thought it so cool and said I should write up a family history to share with the rest of the family. Since that time, I have been meaning to, but it seemed so many other things got in the way. So, if I had time between n...