I am so glad to hear that Family History Expos is back online, and even better than ever. As you may know, recently FHExpo suffered a true business disaster when their web hosting provider suffered an accident which lost the FHExpo website and subscriber list. Holly Hansen, President of FHExpo, … [Read more...]
Genealogy Spring Cleaning Review
It’s been a busy week, airing out the archives, shaking the figurative relatives’ rugs, and washing the windows squeaky-clean. Michelle Goodrum at The Turning of Generations was busy with Spring Cleaning this week. She wrote about storing vintage dolls in archival boxes, finding a … [Read more...]
Genealogy Spring Cleaning – Fresh Flowers for the Desk
It feels nice to bring a bit of springtime inside to my desk. I’ve tidied the bulletin board to show off a few favorite snapshots and brought in a bunch of fresh freesias to fill Grandmother Arline’s dainty cream pitcher. I like using my mother-in-law’s German stork scissors, … [Read more...]
Genealogy Spring Cleaning – Wash the Windows
Instead of sharing a new and original family tree, I am sharing an old yet lovely rendition by my Great Aunt, Mercy Kinsel MacPhee, sister to Arline. Mercy was at the center of a sensational missing-persons case and later found quite happily married to Scotsman Angus MacPhee. Mercy had a keen … [Read more...]
Wordless Wednesday (not really): Genealogy Spring Cleaning, Repair or Restore
This photograph from the Arline Allen Kinsel Archives haunts me. The inscription on the back notes that is a photo of my grandfather, Francis Ammi Brown with his second grade class in Olathe, Kansas. The broken pieces of the image speak of the many hands that have touched this image. I don’t know … [Read more...]
Genealogy Spring Cleaning – Shake Out the Rugs
This is the second day of my week long checklist of spring cleaning tasks for my genealogy archives. Follow #genspringclean on Twitter, and share your updates too. Tuesday – Shake the rugs for dust and lost things. We once found a long-lost wedding band hidden in the depths of a flokati rug. … [Read more...]
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