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Week 47-Thankful: Family

As I think about what I am thankful for, it is certain I am thankful for my family. I have five brothers and sisters and we all get along so well. We may not get together as often as we used to when our parents were alive and hosted most of the family get-togethers, but my sister, Sabrina is good about arranging at least one or two luncheons at the Spaghetti Factory where we all can eat together. We all live within a few hours of each other, so it is nice when we can get together. I am thankful that when our father died and I dealt with the settling of the trust, no one gave me any grief. There was no in-fighting. We divvied up his items amicably and everyone was a help in cleaning out his place. The women in the family also get along so well. We have “sister” celebrations for our birthdays and include now our nieces and daughters. Covid has put a kink in that celebration but I sure hope it can be revived soon, now that we’ve been vaccinated. I am thankful for our daughters, who thou...

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Thanksgiving - Genealogy Edition

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's Saturday Night again - time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing has our assignment for this week: Here is your assignment, should you decide to accept it (you ARE reading this, so I assume that you really want to play along - cue the Mission Impossible music!): 1)  Think about the answers to these questions about your thankfulness for genealogy: a.  Which ancestor are you most thankful for, and why?   b.  Which author (book, periodical, website, etc.) are you most thankful for, and why?   c.  Which historical record set (paper or website) are you most thankful for, and why? 2)  Tell us about it in a blog post of your own; in a comment to this blog post; or in a Facebook post.  Please leave a link in Comments to your own blog post or Facebook post. Here are my answers: a.  The ancestors I am most thankful for are my maternal grandmother, Pansy (Lan...

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - What Genealogy Resource Are You Thankful For?

Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to: 1)  Elizabeth Swanay O'Neal has a monthly blog party for geneabloggers to write about a certain topic.  This month the topic is "What genealogy 'resource' are you thankful for this year?" 2)  Please join the blog party and write about your response on your own blog post, in a comment on this post and/or Elizabeth's post, or on Facebook.  I am most thankful for the website FamilySearch . Each day, more and more records have been digitized and put online. These are not just indexes, but actual images of original documents! It has made researching so much easier. I can either find records from my own home, or if the image is locked, go the eight miles to the local Family History Center and view the images on their computers. So now there are three ways to view records at FamilySearch: Microfilm, not yet digitized. Must view at the Family History Li...