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Lucky me, I got to rendezvous and hug several of our Christmas Tour Family at the recent NGS conference in Cincinnati! Jerry VanDuzer, Susan Mottice, Cecily Kelly (with friend Teri Rehman), Leland and Nicholas, Rich Williams, Kathy Rausch and (my Continue reading Salt Lake Christmas Tour………….. Week’s Peek
Are macadamia nuts one of your favorite treats?? Did you know: The trees were brought to Hawaii in 1887….. from??? The Mauna Loa farm has 2500 acres with 250,000 trees. The trees grow and produce year round but only in Continue reading Salt Lake Christmas Tour………….. Week’s Peek
One of our tour family, Maureen MacDonald, lives across Washington state from me and so we manage to rendezvous every now and then. She drove east from Whidbey Island (picking up Sharon Fowler, another member of our tour family) to Continue reading Salt Lake Christmas Tour…………. Week’s Peek
Did anybody notice the way I spelled “peek” this time? I used the word “peak” for a reason……….. the Peak of the Week is that with so many hands working on the 1940 census indexing project I understand that it’s Continue reading Salt Lake Christmas Tour….. Week’s Peak
When I visited Washington DC last week, we visited Arlington National Cemetery and the Arlington House. In the museum there, I was delighted to see the Custis-Lee Family Tree posted as prominently as was the Syphax Family Tree which connects Continue reading Salt Lake Christmas Tour……….. Week’s Peek
Last week I was a lucky lady. I got to spend the week in Washington DC with my son, Benjamin, and grandsons Austin (age 13) and Grady (age 18). We walked miles and miles and visited all the Smithsonian museums Continue reading Salt Lake Christmas Tour…….. Week’s Peek
Leland and I did have a fun hour being jostled amongst 50,000 people on the opening day of the City Creek Mall. But last week in Salt Lake I also very much enjoyed the blooming blubs on Temple Square……. since Continue reading Salt Lake Christmas Tour………. Week’s Peek
Lucky, lucky me, I’m in Salt Lake City with a small group from Spokane. One additional benefit (beyond the obvious of being in Salt Lake!!) is that there are flowers blooming on Temple Square and there surely are not at Continue reading Salt Lake Christmas Tour………… Week’s Peek
You think today’s baby names are funny? And that our ancestors didn’t use “funny” names? Think again! Doing research in Pulaski County, Indiana, and in some Virginia counties, I was browsing through some of those county records when these names Continue reading Salt Lake Christmas Tour………… Week’s Peek
This is not genealogy, but it is history…….. the history of our planet………. and aren’t history and genealogy partners???? We were just in Hawaii (on the Big Island of Hawaii) where we went for February sunshine and to escape Continue reading Salt Lake Christmas Tour………….. Week’s Peek
Coming to you today from Kona, Hawaii, where John and I went to escape the Spokane winter……. and it’s glorious here, low 80s and barefoot an on the beach all day picking up pieces of coral…………. but this is a Continue reading Salt Lake Christmas Tour……… Week’s Peek
Here are some of the Salt Lake Christmas Tour folks that were at RootsTech….. Henriette “Hank” Christmas, Cecily Kelly, Maureen MacDonald, Trudy Schenk, Donna, Thomas MacEntee, Loni Gardner, Arlene Amodei. Next year maybe I’ll see you there and snap a Continue reading Salt Lake Christmas Tour………. Week’s Peek
Hello and good morning from Salt Lake. I’ve just finished up attending RootsTech and it was fab. I think the over-arching new understanding I gained was this: Imagine all the available genealogical data as kernels of wheat. This wheat with Continue reading Salt Lake Christmas Tour…………. Week’s Peek
Anybody remember that handsome hunk, Illya D’Addezio, who joined our Christmas tour for a couple of years recently? His passion was his websites, GenealogyToday and LiveRoots, and he tried his darndest to help us understand and value using what he Continue reading Salt Lake Christmas Tour…… Week’s Peek
Here are some photos of the happy people on the recent Salt Lake Christmas Tour. Besides the awesome breakfasts, great teaching by Thomas MacEntee and having the chance to meet new friends (like Armin), everybody on the tour had a Continue reading Salt Lake Christmas Tour………… Week’s Peek