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Despite the 106o temperatures, daughter Jane and I had a great visit in Kansas City with sis-in-law Sharon. (I’ve known her longer than I’ve known her brother we realized!) The visit to the World War I Memorial Museum was the Continue reading Salt Lake Christmas Tour Week Peek #35
Summer has finally come good enough to blossom my petunias…….. isn’t this gorgeous? If it were larger, it would do as a bridal bouquet, seems to me. Want to do a questionnaire today…… please let me know your answers: (1) Continue reading Salt Lake Christmas Tour Week Peek #33
You just never know who you will run into! My daughter Jane and I were in a funky little jewelry shop in Fort Collins, Colorado, when I spotted a nice big display of JillAnne Designs, Fused Glass Jewelry. I immediately Continue reading Salt Lake Christmas Tour Week Peek #31
I’ve been on the road…………. with my daughter Jane, working with Holly Hansen and the Family History Expos in Sheridan, WY, and Loveland, CO (just north of Denver). Had a great, fun and (I think; I hope) productive time for Continue reading Salt Lake Christmas Tour Week Peek #28-29
This is Leland delivering a Civil War records presentation at the Southern California Jamboree last weekend………. wouldn’t we also like to see him in his “Union” cap??? Where does time go……..how fast time flies……… do we realize that 2011 is Continue reading Salt Lake Christmas Tour Week Peek #27
Hello and it’s finally summery here! I know some of you have been sweltering already but warmth and FLOWERS have been slow coming to Spokane. The Ponderosa Pines have the showiest and prettiest new growth…. don’t you agree? And the Continue reading Salt Lake Christmas Tour Week Peek#26
This is almost-May-spring in Spokane! Bah humbug……….but you dear folks living in the Midwest are having it way worse. Thank you (several of you) who took the time to tell me YES they read/follow/enjoy these Weekly Peeks of “wuzz-wuzz.” (That Continue reading Salt Lake Christmas Tour Week Peek #20
Yes, yes, I know. I missed Week #18…………. but did anybody notice??? Golly-geepers, I would really like to know if anybody is reading/enjoying these weekly “peeks” and also our Salt Lake Christmas Tour monthly newsletter. Would you let me know?? Continue reading Salt Lake Christmas Tour Week Peek #19
Sometimes “tried and true” and “oldie but goodie” advice has merit. Case in point, USGenWeb. Begun in 1996, it has grown to become a most valuable resource for genealogists. Quoting from their website: The USGenWeb Project consists of a group Continue reading Salt Lake Christmas Tour Week Peek #17
Our “home away from home,” right? Any of you going to be in-house before December?? Do you really truly realize that 2011 is ONE QUARTER over and are you kicking yourself because you have not get gotten to your notes Continue reading Salt Lake Christmas Tour Week Peek #16
Don’t Marcia and I look really good? Marcia and I were in the same high school graduating class back in 1961 and we have not seen each other since……… until last Saturday. I gave a presentation to the Jefferson County Continue reading Salt Lake Christmas Tour Week Peek #15
When we’re in Salt Lake in December it’s cold, trees are bare and no flowers are blooming. Not so in spring! Kinda wish we did our Tour in spring for Temple Square is blooming with thousands of bulbs of all Continue reading Salt Lake Christmas Tour Week Peek #14
Did you ever play the game of Blockhead with your kids? This was a favorite of ours and even a favorite when the grandkids came (until they turned teen and snorted at such simple pleasures). You remember the game…. it Continue reading Salt Lake Christmas Tour Week Peek #12
One thing….. one motivational thing…….. I learned at RootsTech was that the Wiki at FamilySearch is devloping into a #1 Gold-Plated Grade A Double WOW research tool. Have you use this resource yet?? The Wiki at FamilySearch will help you Continue reading Salt Lake Christmas Tour Week’s Peek #10
Guess where I am??? Does this room look familiar? It should! I’m happily back in the Salt Lake Plaza having just attended RootsTech. And it was fabulous. This was a 3-day conference for technology developers and technology users (like you Continue reading Salt Lake Christmas Tour Week Peek #9