Archive | 6 February 2012

Last Week’s Research Activities

Feb6
  • Research and document my findings for
  1. Lavina Scott
  2. Charles Hamilton
  3. Mary Hamilton
  4. John Hamilton
  5. Wayne Hamilton
  • Update both my Freepages site and WorldConnect database and email a RootsMagic backup to my Gmail account
  • Add 2 direct-line ancestors to my research wiki
  • Continue with the transfer of my image folders to my new website’s Images directory. 26 folders left to go… maybe I can finish them this week! FINISHED!
  • Week #5 and #6 posts for 52 Weeks of Abundant Genealogy

Again, not much research this past week, but I’m done with the image folder transfer!!! It took about 6 weeks to get all 150 albums transferred from Picasa Web Albums to my FreePages site. A job well-done, and now I can seriously get back to research…

One unexpected find this week: my Mom’s birth certificate from FamilySearch.org’s Texas Birth Certificates, 1903-1935. A special treat!

Plans for this week:

  • Research and document my findings for
  1. Lavina Scott
  2. Charles Hamilton
  3. Mary Hamilton
  4. John Hamilton
  5. Wayne Hamilton
  • Update both my Freepages site and WorldConnect database and email a RootsMagic backup to my Gmail account
  • Add 2 direct-line ancestors to my research wiki
  • Week #7 post for 52 Weeks of Abundant Genealogy

52 Weeks of Abundant Genealogy Week #6: Family Heirlooms

Feb6

For which family heirloom are you most thankful? How did you acquire this treasure and what does it mean to you and your family?

My Mom died in 1999, and a few years later my Dad gave an old red photo album that had belonged to her. It was tattered and tired, and I don’t remember ever seeing it before that day.

I sat down on the floor and opened the album and broke out into a huge smile! This album contained page after page of family photographs, the oldest created in the 1880′s, all the way to the 1990′s. Most were from my Mom’s side of the family, but several pages contained images of my Dad’s ancestors. These were a special treat, as I have very few photographs of my Dad’s family!

And the best thing about this incredible collection? Most of the photographs were taken on the spur of the moment, not staged or posed. Just regular people, living their lives. Here are just a few:

Yes, the guy with the bear is my Dad. As kids, we had always heard the story of my Dad wrestling a bear, but thought it was just a tall tale. Well, Folks, it actually happened!

P. S. The bear won… :)

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52 Weeks of Abundant Genealogy by Amy Coffin is a series of weekly blogging prompts (one for each week of 2012) that invite genealogists and others to discuss resources in the genealogy community including websites, applications, libraries, archives, genealogical societies and more. You do not have to be a blogger to participate. If you do not have a genealogy blog, write down your thoughts on your computer, or simply record them on paper and keep them with your files.