Merry Christmas!

Here's wishing all a very Merry Christmas, or whatever holiday you may celebrate!

Nice forms

I found some nice forms here:

http://kindredkeepsakes.com/products/charts/free.html

They also have products to help with family heritage. One is a custom memory book. The
price is based on size of the book, number of pages and whether it is black and white or in color.
You can get a custom estimate here:

http://kindredkeepsakes.com/products/charts/free.html

Examples:

http://kindredkeepsakes.com/examples/index.html

Where does the time go?

It is so busy this time of year! I have done some research and found some information and records. I have even found some records for my dh's maternal lines in Scotland. I decided I needed to write out family charts etc, just getting too many people in all our lines now. I go to the library to do research also, I can access more websites that way, so I need the charts and other info to carry with me. Getting it all written out has taken some time, besides what I could print out, and some of it is to share with my brother and cousins, etc.

I received a notice that the Irish Times newspaper is celebrating 150 years in publication by letting you access its digital article archive free through December 14. I am off to do some research there now.

http://www.irishtimes.com/150/

No internet!

Been without the internet for almost 5 days! Yikes, and when it was working it was slower than the worst dialup!
We have it back and they hook us up in a different area of the line, we have cable internet.

I hope you were able to use the free access at Ancestry.com to look up any family members that served in the U.S. military. Right now Footnote.com has free access to Holocaust records. My dad was in the service during WWII and he took a lot of photos and some are from the rescue of some people at the death camps. Such a terrible tragedy. The free search was suppose to be only for October, but they extended it until the end of the year. Who knows, anyone might have a family member that was connected to someone that died in those awful camps, or have family members that died or were rescued from them.

http://go.footnote.com/holocaust_records/

Time goes by too fast!

I have been so busy, more contacts with distant cousins for my lines and dh's lines. One person had family photos of my FIL when he was young with his parents and even photos of his grandparents, that neither my dh or his siblings had ever seen. So I'm in the process of sending out emails, but will have to burn CDs since their dialups can't handle the size/quality. The distant cousin of my dh said I could copy all the info in her tree, they connect aways back, and is much farther in that line than I thought I would find any time soon. My head is whirling with all the new findings. I am presently trying to organize some binders instead of the box I was using. I will still keep the box and folders for the other findings, like history of areas etc, but the main info will go into the binders. I signed up with NewspaperArchive.com again, finding so much with them. I got a deal through WorldVitalRecords.com to sign up for half price. Well best get back to research while the house is quiet and I am alone. Happy hunting! :)

Time flew by!

Wow time has just sped by and I am so busy. Still recovering from 3 broken toes, and still unable to start physical therapy for my injured spine because of them. I am so accident prone!

I have been working on my research, and purchased some good used genealogy books, can't see buying new if they look almost new. I did buy one new book, and will use the money I would spend on new books for more new books I need and for use on paid sites.

I also purchased some credits at scotlandspeople.gov.uk , and found some documents on my dh's maternal line. I also set up some more memorials at findagrave.com and put in some photo requests and they were filled right away. We live live out of state from where family is buried and hadn't been able to get back to take some photos.

I also have another second cousin and her husband doing research, and we recently hooked up to share some info. I feel very fortunate to now have some family members interested in genealogy and doing research who will also share info.

No surgery and other stuff

I thought I would have to have surgery on my neck, but the dr is too worried about paralysis because of bleeding disorder and sensitivity of my body, so no spine injection either. I will just do a steroid pack and then physical therapy. That is a relief! :)

Don't you hate it when you share your research with extended family members and they use it but don't give you credit, or even share what they find? Well I learned that lesson after sharing the tons of info I had found over the years, including things my mother had and even the family tree I made as a high school student. It is very sad that people are that way, but I will no longer share everything, only the basics. I have already started doing that, they lose out, but if they want to be that way I don't feel I have to share everything. I was always more than willing to share info, links, documents, photos, and even newspaper articles I personally own. I thought others would be the same way, but I was wrong. :(