A New Year, A New Day, A New Perspective
Monday, January 03, 2011A New Year, A New Day, A New PerspectiveIt is a new year, new week, new day and I have a new perspective, I hope, on my life! Impressive huh! Last night I bit the bullet and...
View ArticlePiercing My Nose. Or Not.
This was going to be a story of feminism and self-ownership:The search for my nose began as a child. Mine was round and very unlike my mother's regal Roman nose. My birth father was long gone, but old...
View ArticleAncestors Gotta Eat!
http://ancestorsgottaeat.blogspot.com/Who doesn't love to eat?I love to cook, collect cookbooks and old recipes, and delve into genealogy and the garden dirt as well. I also love to travel and spend...
View ArticleHalloween Needs More Death
As Halloween approaches, it brings a tide of childhood memories: handmade princess costumes, the joy of free candy, the rule among my peers to hold our breath when passing a cemetery so we wouldn't...
View ArticleMy Third Great Grandfather Warren McKinney's Slave Narrative
My third great grandfather Warren McKinney (1859-1938) participated in the Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves. The interviews took place...
View ArticleThree Generations Away
Tuesday, June 4, 2013 - Prompt:Go back three generations and tell us about where your family lived. I was born in Paris, France. My father was born in Paris, France. His mother too. My mother was born...
View ArticleTop 10 FREE Genealogy Websites
I am a BIG fan of Ancestry.com, But, I'm a bigger fan of FREE Genealogy websites that offer great information. Through the years of research, these top 10 websites have helped me build my family tree...
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