I am a professional writer. When I'm not researching family history, I write grant proposals for a local not-for-profit. There is a meme...

  For tonight's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun, Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings suggested: 1)  Participate in the Ancestors GeneaMeme crea...

Geniaus created The Tech-Savvy Genealogist Meme . She came up with 50 items.  I expanded the list to 80, and also reworded two of her entr...

I was in a conversation with someone recently who had seen my blog, and they asked for advice. They were thinking about starting a blog, an...

Back in January of 2008, the 41st Carnival of Genealogy challenged us to come up with a dinner party of five - by inviting four ancestors, a...

In his weekly Saturday Night Genealogy Fun , Randy at GeneaMusings asks: 1) Write down which of your ancestors that you have met in person (...

This may seem like a morbid idea for a post, but recent events spurred me to search for a list. A lot of people have been repeating the sta...

For his weekly Saturday Night Genealogy Fun meme, Randy at Geneamusings tried out The Death Clock . It's an online application that com...

This week's "Saturday Night Fun" at Geneamusings For this Saturday Night Genealogy Fun, please: 1) Make up a/some Bumper Stick...

The latest meme to hit the genea-blogosphere , created by the combined effort of the bloggers behind Kinexxions , Destination: Austin Family...

For those who like memes, here's a fun one to consider. Now is a time for looking back on the past year. Here's a way to quickly cr...

Bill West has tagged me in a meme that has been traveling quickly around the genea-blogosphere. For those of you who don’t know me, this pr...

Yesterday on the Ficlets Blog , writers were challenged to write six-word memoirs. Being a slightly obsessed fan of the French author, Vict...

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Earlier this month there was a meme going around about where our ancestors were in 1908. Donna, at What's Past is Prologue asks the obvi...

Lisa at 100 Years in America began this meme : Where was my family in 1908? Several others have picked up on it. I have found it interest...

FootnoteMaven has challenged geneaBloggers to post their favorite carols. I tend to prefer the seasonal ones over the religious ones, since...

Miriam at Ancestories , and Tim at Genealogy Reviews Online , have begun a meme asking the question - where were you for the census of your ...

November is over, and I'm done attempting to write 50,000 words in one month. Alas, I didn't complete the task. But I wrote enoug...

There's a meme going around , and I've been tagged ( twice ), but the last book I read was less than 161 pages, and the book I...