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A Big Shout-Out for Saturday Night Genealogy Fun via GeneaMusings

By Denise May Levenick | August 6, 2011 |

No more excuses! Fans and newcomers to GeneaMusings, head on over to Randy Seaver's site and catch the Saturday Night Genealogy Fun Fever. This week Randy is kind enough to get the word out about the Past is Present Photo Challenge. He has a great idea to get started on the challenge TONIGHT by … [Read more...]

5 Tips for Snapping the Perfect Dear Photograph Picture

By Denise May Levenick | August 3, 2011 |

I discovered with my own Dear Photograph experiment that taking "a picture of a picture from the past in the present" isn't as easy as it looks. The best results come from selecting a certain kind of photo and holding the picture in a certain way. Last week I proposed a Genealogy … [Read more...]

A Bit of Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: Signs of GOCD

By Denise May Levenick | July 30, 2011 |

Thanks, Randy Seaver and Michael John Neill for a bit of summer evening fun. You might be kinda sorta compulsive obsessive about genealogy if. . . Your daily ToDo List starts with tasks such as: find out Uncle Sam's wife's name. Your grocery list is scribbled on pink receipts from FHL film … [Read more...]

COG Food for Thought: The Day Herman Came to Visit

By Denise May Levenick | July 29, 2011 |

Mom had a reputation as a very good cook, but she also had a strange fondness for bizarre and offbeat recipes. Actually, more like weird recipes that tasted good. She was the first Mom I knew to wink and serve the fad dessert, "Better Than Sex Cake." I was too young to know if that was true, but the … [Read more...]

The Past is Present: Genealogy Photo Challenge for World Photography Day

By Denise May Levenick | July 27, 2011 |

The Family Curator is issuing a challenge to geneabloggers, genealogists, and family historians! Celebrate genealogy and family history for World Photography Day August 19 by combining the past and present in a photograph. You might want to recreate an old photo or bring the past to the present day … [Read more...]

Dear Photograph: Wedding Anniversary Edition

By Denise May Levenick | July 26, 2011 |

Dear Photograph, Once upon a time we stood in the same doorway. See you again, God willing. Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church, Montecito, California July 24, 1976/2011 The website DearPhotograph.com started it all. Return to the scene of an old photograph and take the picture … [Read more...]

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