As Donna Pointkouski said so well, over at What’s Past is Prologue:
This time of year you can’t read the paper, watch television, listen to the radio, or peruse the internet without tripping over a “Top Ten” or “Best of” list. It’s fun to hear other people’s views on the best and the worst and [...]

I’ve never been one for New Year’s resolutions, mainly because whenever I do make them, I never keep them because I never, or rarely, remember them after December 31st (It’s not because of drinking, I promise).  So I figure, what’s the point?  But having said that… the topic of the 63rd Carnival of Genealogy is [...]

I was recently thinking about my family’s traditions and realized that most of those traditions have fallen by the way side.
The one tradition that has stuck, is that our family celebrates Christmas on Christmas Eve.  I’m really not sure why this started though.  If I had to guess it probably had to do with each [...]

The 62nd edition of the Carnival of Genealogy asks genealogy bloggers to write a letter to Genea-Santa, making a list of 3 gifts they would like to receive this holiday season from 3 of their ancestors.  Here are my wishes:
1.  I would love to have the broach that my great-grandmother, Thelma Seibert-Furry, had in her [...]

I found this meme over at the genealogy blog Creative Gene and felt like playing along:
Wrapping paper or gift bags? Always wrapping paper.  Although you can reuse bags, which is nice, I think bags are a poor way to wrap gifts.  The receiver doesn’t have any fun unwrapping the gift if it’s in a bag.
Real [...]