Photo by Sixteen Miles Out on Unsplash I haven’t blogged in a while. For two years, I put this blog on private as I’d no longer had the willpower to push out blog posts the way that I did six years ago. I write a little more about this in my blog post Why Do You Do… ? Recently, I have revamped my blog. I have unpublished posts that didn’t reflect who I was then or who I am now, or those that felt too personal to share ‘out there’. I also removed posts I wrote just for the sake of posting content and main taining an audience, even when inauthentic to me. It means more to me that others feel the value and quality of what I share rather than the quantity. I am not sure how often I will post, all I know is when the inspiration and curiosity strike, that’s when it will occur. My intention for this blog is to lead with more spontaneity than usual, structured content, along with transparency, authenticity, and vulnerability to whatever degree feels right. My inte...
Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:
It's Saturday Night again -
time for some more Genealogy Fun!!
Here is your assignment, should you decide to accept it (you ARE reading this, so I assume that you really want to play along - cue the Mission Impossible music!):
1) Think about the answers to these questions about your thankfulness for genealogy:
a. Which ancestor are you most thankful for, and why?
b. Which author (book, periodical, website, etc.) are you most thankful for, and why?
c. Which historical record set (paper or website) are you most thankful for, and why?
2) Tell us about it in a blog post of your own; in a comment to this blog post; or in a Facebook post. Please leave a link in comments to your own blog post or Facebook post.
a. The ancestor that I'm most thankful is my maternal grandmother because she recorded home movies from my younger years including my siblings, mother, and aunt. She also gave vital information about her birthdates of her to begin my journey.
b. The author I most thankful for is Jennifer Holik. She has spent years studying military research and has written books about her ancestors. She does in-depth research about a client's family member from what she says "like nobody else". Holik even has services for writing stories, caregiving resources and more. Her resources have given me a starting point to my military research.
c. One of the recordsets that I am thankful for is the National Archives (USA). Volunteers spent time out of their day (like FamilySearch, go FamilySearch!) to digitize record groups such as the Civil War Widows Pension Files. The Library of Congress has a wealth of information too.
Happy Holidays, everyone!
The National Archives is a great record set, although I think very underused by most researchers as we seem to only gravitate towards the NARA military records. Happy Thanksgiving!
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