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 I have unpublished posts that didn’t reflect who I was then or who I am now, or those that felt too personal to share ‘out there’.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!! Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to: 1 ) Pretend that you are one of the subjects on the Who Do You Think You Are? show on television. 2) Which of your ancestors (maximum of two) would be featured on your hour-long show? What stories would be told, and what places would you visit? 3) Tell us about it on your own blog, in comments to this blog post, or in a Note or Comment on Facebook. One ancestor that would be featured would be my great-grandmother, Clara Loretta Scott. Clara was adopted by her aunt (her father's sister) and uncle. She had two brothers (and a potential full-blooded sister that died when Clara was a baby and probably never knew about) that were put in the orphanage. Why were they put in the orphanage? What was their life like there? What issues or situations were happening that made them be placed in a child...