An Old Line Proved Wrong
A common lament amongst experienced genealogists is that the Internet enables dabblers in family history research to add generations of ancestors “just by clicking on the leaf,” many times without any or even partially realistic attribution. This is true....
Read moreGenealogy and Etiquette
A friend called me last week and wanted to know again and exactly, why I didn’t put my genealogy on the web in one of the many linked genealogical options available, specifically Ancestry. I explained the issue as many...
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One Hypothesis Proven, More To Go
One Hypothesis Down, Two to Go (Continuation of What to Do While Waiting for the Mail to Arrive) Family History Research – Tennie Bray – Part Three Tennie (Hobbs) Bray’s obituary listed her surviving siblings, the same children enumerated...
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Gone-Away Lake
Here along the Front Range we had a hard summer, the man against nature theme was unrelenting in June, with fires burning in and out of control. In Aurora in July, 58 people were wounded and 12 murdered by...
Read moreThoughts about Fires and Genealogy
I think I measured once and it is three miles from our house to the high school, a staging area for the fire fighters for the Flagstaff fire. The fire was actually more behind Bear Mountain in Skunk Canyon...
Read moreSome Things are Worth the Extra Money
I Like Milk I have always liked milk. Growing up in a family of six with five huge milk drinkers, I can’t imagine how many gallons we went through in a week. When I went to college, I drank...
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