I’m participating in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors Challenge this year. We are at Week # 49 and the writing prompt is OOPS. Oh, my gosh. Where do I start?! Here’s a list of mistakes I made when starting to research my family history. I’m sure that I’m not alone in some of these oopsies.…
I’m participating in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors Challenge and this week’s writing prompt is GOOD DEEDS. If you’re looking to help out in the Genealogy world, here are some places you can go to help out by doing a good deed or two. Many of these ideas can be done from the comfort of…
This week for Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestor’s Challenge the writing prompt is LARGE. Thinking about that in terms of genealogy, if there’s one thing that I have is LARGE piles of negatives, slides and photographs waiting to be digitized! I know that I’m not alone in this!! How many of us have photo boxes…
The writing prompt for Amy Johnson-Crow’s 52 Ancestors Challenge this week is HANDED DOWN. Looking around the house, I don’t have a whole lot of treasures that have been handed down to me. However, the things I do have I want to ensure that they are handed down to the next generation, if they are…
A while back, Week # 6 to be exact, in Amy Johnson-Crow’s 52 Ancestors Challenge I wrote about the Ackroyd Family for the writing prompt “Same Name“. This week’s post is a (muddled up and somewhat confusing) continuation from that week. There are still parts about the life of my husband’s Great-Grandmother, Helena Ackroyd that…
I received an email the other day letting me know that Fold3 is offering free access to ALL of their records in honour of the 75th Anniversary of the end of WWII and for Memorial Day in the USA which is this Monday. Act quickly!! This offer expires on Monday May 25th at 11:59pm ET.…
Man alive! Some of these writing prompts are proving difficult for me. I don’t think I’ve come across any stories of fire in our family history. I mean our kitchen caught on fire when we were kids thanks to a baby-sitter trying to make french fries in Crisco on the stovetop…but that hardly relates to…
A couple of months ago I had a really bad day. Some might say that my luck had run out. Problem My computer, a MacBook Air, had been “down” for a few days…for some reason the automatic updates on my computer tried to install overnight (although I thought that I had them turned off). From…
I’ve been racking my brain trying to think of an appropriate topic for this week’s writing prompt from Amy Johnson-Crow’s 52 Ancestors challenge “Same Name.” I thought of a couple of ideas…for instance my father and my husband’s father have the same middle name. My Great-Grandmother married someone with the same last name as her.…
Happy New Year! It’s time for fresh starts. The first day of the new year. This year I aim to do my best at participating in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge for 2020. It’s essentially a new writing prompt every week for 52 weeks. I’m not going to make any promises…
