Posts Tagged With: family history
I’m at the Media Hub at FGS2011
Good morning from the FGS2011 Media Hub! I’m sitting in the exhibit hall at the Official Bloggers media hub with Randy Seaver and Lisa Alzo. Thomas MacEntee, Amy Coffin, and Caroline Pointer are hanging out here too. This morning I sat in the opening session and heard David Ferriero speak from NARA. He told us [...]
FGS 2011 Is Less Than A Month Away!
I can’t believe FGS2011 is less than a month away! Where has the time gone? I just pulled out my many times revised sessions sheet to look over what I finally settled on attending. So here’s my final line-up. Wednesday Plenary Session But It’s My Family 21st Century Marketing Techniques for Genealogists/Genealogical Societies Engaging a [...]
Motivation Monday – Genealogy Education
This weekend I read several posts by Michael Hait regarding his recent achievement of genealogical certification. I wrote about it on my Family History Research Blog. His post made me think a lot about my education to this point and my future goals. Currently I am more than half finished with the ProGen Study Group. [...]
Thankful Thursday – Lots Of Work To Do
Things are getting busy at Generations! Lots of exciting work and new articles to write and submit. I am also finishing a house history and hope to work on more of those. Before the month ends I will be researching at the Missouri State Archives in Jefferson City, Missouri. I prepared a long list of [...]
Thankful Thursday – RAOGK
Hit a brick wall in your family history research? Need that one record to help prove a fact? Are you searching for a particular record in another county in Illinois or area of the country but cannot get there to obtain it? Not interested in hiring a professaionl researcher to track down your document? Then [...]
Wisdom Wednesday – Protecting Heirlooms
The latest issue of Family Tree Magazine, July 2011, has so much great information in it. One article that really hit me is the Taking Care by Denise Levenick. Denise talks about protecting heirlooms which include letters, documents, photographs, and objects. She discusses many ways to protect these items for future generations and how to [...]
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