This week, we are talking about our favorite photo. I have many pictures from my trip to Australia, New Zealand, and Alaska last year. I’ve been working on sorting them into specific albums and posting memories from the trips on Facebook. I don’t have many pictures from my early years. Two years ago, I discussed…

This year, I’m participating in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge. It’s giving me an opportunity to interact on my webpage and write a blog again! The topic for week 1 is “In the Beginning,” which involves thinking about where the interest (obsession!) with genealogy first started. For me, it started frankly…

Well, now I’m very behind on writing my blogs! I got back from my trip last week and am still feeling some impact from jet lag. And now we switch to Daylight Savings Time!  Oh well, it is all good. The trip was fantastic, and I’ll do a couple special blogs about the trip separate…

I am a bit behind with my blogs. I did not have the best internet while traveling on the ship, and disembarked in Auckland, New Zealand just this past Saturday (it’s now Saturday, February 3rd here). Getting used to the time change has been interesting. I just look at the world clock to ensure I’m…

The topic for week #2 is “Origins”. As I write this, I’ve just arrived in Sydney, Australia. I’m starting the first leg of trip between Australia and New Zealand. I don’t have family origins in this part of the world, although I do have distant relations. It’s beautiful and warm here! The flight was long,…

I enjoyed the 52 Ancestor’s Challenge last year.  I’m looking forward to writing blog entries again this year.  I’m going to be traveling much of January and February, and still want to participate in the challenge again this year. I found it one way to keep myself engaged in other aspects of genealogy, outside of…

The topic for week #52 is “Me, Myself, and I”. What would I like future generations to know about me? First, I’m quite shy until I get to know people. As a child, I was quite introverted. I liked to read, and I needed to have alone time. My favorite books were, and still are:…

I’m an only child. The subject for week #51 is Cousins. I spent so much time with my maternal cousins that I don’t often truly feel like an only. I have seven cousins on each side. Most of us are grouped within a few years of each other. Each side has what I call the…

Week #49’s topic is “Family Recipe”. There is one recipe I think of and that is my Grandma’s Busy Day Cake. I can’t make it like her – she was a far more skilled baker than I. I’m a pie person – I’ll take that over cake any day. But this cake – well the…

Week 48’s topic is “Troublemaker”.  I think of my grandfather’s cousin, Ward. Ward was a troublemaker, mostly to himself. Born in 1895 to Thomas Barber and Laura Butcher, he was their only child. In March of 1918, he was drafted into the Army and served as rank of private. He married a woman named Lillian…