Treasure Hunters Round-Up

Weigh anchor, mateys, we’re sailin’ to find buried treasure under the banner of the Show and Tell Family Treasure Challenge, courtesy of fair footnoteMaven.

And shiver me timbers, I sure am glad to have company on this voyage to find the buried treasures in me own Magic Cupboard. It’s a terrible task to take on without a tip-top crew at yer side.

Here’s a sneak peek at the treasure maps brought to the Challenge by our brave blogging buccaneers. Don’t be shy about cheering them on! They will be posting about their treasures throughout the month – deadline October 20 – when we will have a Treasure Round-Up.

Blogging Buccaneers, The Treasure Hunters

• FootnoteMaven writes in “Treasure Hunt! A Challenge for Genea-Bloggers” that she has already found “something” in her closet of treasures, but she’s not telling about it yet! It has been carefully wrapped in archival tissue and stored away to be found another day. I can hardly wait to read about this Treasure.

• Treasures of a personal kind are in the mind of Midge Frazel in her post “Photo Challenge” at Granite in My Blood. Midge has made a comprehensive plan to organize, scan, and archive for her collection of family photographs, something that is probably at the top of a lot of To Do Lists.

• Wendy Littrell at All My Branches writes about her plan to examine a box of property deeds and land transactions in “Searching for Buried Treasure.” She is even hoping to find photos or satellite images of the property. I like her idea of “virtual” visits to our ancestors’ homes; it sounds like a great addition to a family story.

• JulieMc in “Looking for Buried Treasure” at Gen Blog has put together a very timely plan to explore a box of stock certificates from her grandmother and great grandmother; let’s keep our fingers crossed that those companies are still on Wall Street for a few weeks. Wouldn’t it be a real Treasure if those pieces of paper are still active?

• The Treasure Hunt sails into foreign waters with M. Diane Rogers at Canada Genealogy, or, ‘Jane’s Your Aunt’ who writes Ah, that Genealogy Shelf…Shameful…A Genea-Blogger Treasure Hunt! She bravely posts a photo of her things-to-be-sorted shelf and maps out a plan to tackle the paper. I love the vintage greeting cards – you will too.

• The green-eyed monster peeked out when I saw the photos of Linda Stienstra’s genealogy room in her post “My Treasure Chest Overfloweth” on From Axer to Ziegler. It has to be the family historian/genealogist dream-come-true. An entire room for research materials! In all those lovely shelves and drawers, Linda still has a box of “stuff” to explore; I can’t wait to see what she finds and hopefully discover the secret to becoming more organized.

• Becky Wiseman has a real mystery for this challenge. Just look at the photo on “Seeking Hidden Treasures” at kinexxions. It is a moving box, marked with her name and the every-mysterious “cards, letters, misc.” How can she wait at all? It could be anything! We are looking forward to hearing all about it.

• The Family Curator has a plan, too, in “Treasure Map to the Magic Cupboard,” but mostly she just looks at the “stuff” and shakes her head. What will it take to move that mountain of paper? She wasn’t even brave enough to photograph the cupboard with the doors open. Tsk, tsk.

I hope you will join the Treasure Hunters on their voyage and cheer them on in their endeavors. Thanks one and all, for taking up the Challenge, and a special thanks to footnoteMaven for our very own “Jolly Roger” flag. Good luck hunters.