Free St Patrick's Day images

Lisa Vollrath has the latest holiday downloads available. Be sure to check around her sites for all her great crafts and supplies. :)

http://countdown.tentwostudios.com/

My prayers were answered!

Thanks to my friends and family and their prayers, my breast biopsy results were negative! It has been a tough few weeks of testing and worrying, especially this past week, but Friday, yesterday I got the good news. So I'm good for now and maybe for good, time will tell. I plan to have the BRAC analysis to find out if I carry the genes, since breast cancer runs in my maternal line. Hope things are the same for all of you too if you are ever in the same situation. :)

Free Valentine printables

Lisa Vollrath has some wonderful daily downloads for Valentine's Day. Her sites are very interesting, filled with lots of crafts. Go here to see the downloads: http://countdown.tentwostudios.com/

New Records online at FamilySearch.org

Wonderful news! I just got this info from my Legacy newsletter:

New records online for Argentina, Canada, Costa Rica, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, Netherlands, Philippines, United States

from FamilySearch.org: 30 January 2009

Since the last update on January 5, 2009, FamilySearch added over 40 million new records to its Record Search pilot. Individuals with international roots from Argentina, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, and the Philippines will find some nice surprises in the newly added collections.

Birth, marriage, and death records were added for the Netherlands and Ireland. Irish researchers in particular have been anxiously awaiting the 23 million records from the Irish Civil Registration indexes.

These records date from 1845-1958 and are also known as the Statutory Registration Records. Statutory registration for Protestants began in 1845 and for Catholics in 1864.

What Tarot card are you?

You are The Star

Hope, expectation, Bright promises.

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Family Health History

It is very important to have a family health history written down. You can go to this government site and create one to print out and file away and take with you to various doctors.

https://familyhistory.hhs.gov/fhh-web/home.action

Busy, busy!

Well it's been almost a month since my last post because I have been busy with researching. I found another distant relative who has been working on one family line since the mid 70's and we shared some basic info with each other. He will publish a book on the family line soon and hopefully my family and my cousins will be mentioned through their mothers and our grandmothers. I now have a few photos on that line, and he even had some info on another one of my maternal lines because it intersected with the line we share, so I got more info there also! I now have the ancestral home areas for two lines back into Europe. My resolution is to get my genealogy organized so I can see everything I have and get to it easier. I will print and fill out forms, then file in a new file system, at least that is my plan. I hope to make layouts to go with much of the info I find and photos when possible. I won a prize of a gift card at Amazon and bought myself a few genealogy books, so that was a great treat! One can never have too many books for genealogy.