Tag: Genealogy
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Genealogy and my ongoing search
In early 2016, I heard about a genealogy conference called Rootstech to be held in Salt Lake City, Utah. Its location shouldn’t be a huge surprise since the largest source of genealogical records in the world reside here with the LDS Church in their FamilySearch Library. I was finally at a place personally that I…
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1950 Census. Too spoiled to wait?
Depending on your age, you may have never looked at an old census. Maybe that should be rephrased to say you have never wanted to or needed to look at an old census. I didn’t. It was more a novelty than a necessity. However, If you are a regular on Ancestry.com, Family Search, or any…
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Goodbye Bruce
Bruce and I first met in 1965 when I was 10-years-old. I had completely forgotten this fact until 50+-years later when I found this picture in a box of my mother’s personal belongings. I had taken possession of this box over 25-years ago when she passed away, but chose not to explore its contents at…
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Pharrell Williams made me cry
First a little context. I am a fan of genealogy—no, actually I love genealogy and watch every show I can find. Initially it was curiosity about people looking for answers. Maybe they were adopted or maybe they were looking for an unknown parent like I was. Sometimes the results were happy, sometimes sad and occasionally…
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Learn to play.
Like the song says…”Teach your children well”… My week is generally consumed with work. What needs to be done, what didn’t get finished and what’s next. At the end of it is a weekend. If I’m lucky I have planned an activity that gets me out of my home office and focuses my attention on…
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a visit to Rootstech
It was an unexpected religious experience. It may of been a short month but it was certainly a long week and appreciated its conclusion. Saturday was my 4th annual pilgrimage to Rootstech. If you are interested at all about genealogy and or DNA, Salt Lake City is the place to be this week. I only…
a life always under construction 