Since I have a cool new tool on my blog that makes these picture grids, I thought I’d try it out with some of my favorite posts from 2011. Hover over each picture for a link to that specific post. Enjoy!! 🙂 Let me know what you think…
How My Great-Great Grandma Lost Her Arm
I have been wondering about the details of my great-great grandmother’s accident since I was a little girl. IView full post »
Tombstone Tuesday: Getting Muddy is Better Than Getting Shot
This is the story of how I found my great-great-great grandparents graves and lived to tell the tale. This storyView full post »
Tombstone Tuesday: The surprise at the end of the muddy trail
This is a continuation of last week’s Tombstone Tuesday, in which Ellie and I very bravely ventured down a muddyView full post »
A Glimpse into my Grandma’s Life: 1941
Besides the wonderful picture that I was reunited with last week, the woman who contacted me also gave me a glimpseView full post »
The interesting life of Rev. John Peter Hogstad, Missionary to Madagascar
When I began my genealogical journey 12 years ago, I never imagined that I’d have any kind of connection toView full post »
Bloggers’ Dinner with FamilySearch
Eating out at a Southern BBQ would have been great in itself. Real macaroni and cheese, cole slaw, and of course lotsView full post »
NGS 2011 Charleston – Day One
We were up bright and early for our first day of the Conference. I felt like a kid on the first day of school. View full post »
Charleston NGS 2011: Day 2
Day One was all excitement. I took tons of pictures. I met lots of people. I entered tons of raffles (still waitingView full post »
A Peek at Charleston
Ellie and I made it to Charleston Sunday night and were able to spent two wonderful days sightseeing with my friendView full post »
Genealogy for Kids: Cemetery Scavenger Hunt
I have to admit that while I was creating this scavenger hunt, my husband was kind of creeped out. And he was warningView full post »
Newspaper Find: People View Night Blooming Cereus
Listening to Geneabloggers Blog Talk Radio last Friday, I was pointed in the direction of a great site which has manyView full post »
(Not So) Wordless Wednesday: The Three Sisters
We went to visit my husband’s grandma while we were staying in Kansas. She is almost 96 years old, which I thinkView full post »
Introducing: Genea-Comics, #1 The Court Record Lift
My daughter Ellie likes to draw, so I’ve commissioned her to start a series of genealogy relatedView full post »
Genea-Comics #2: The Brick Wall Buster
Here is the second installment of Genea-Comics from my daughter, Ellie. I have come up with most of the ideas and sheView full post »
In Print
I finally got the latest issue of Family Tree Magazine in the mail a couple of days ago. For some reason, my friendView full post »
Monday Madness: Solomon M. Hattery’s Accident
This is a stretch for Madness Monday. No, he wasn’t crazy, but he was drunk and acting crazy. I found this inView full post »
Having a Slight Panic Attack
I’m a seasoned Army wife and am getting very used to packing up and moving every couple of years. ItView full post »
Treasure Chest Thursday: Meet Dee, My Security Blanket
This is hard for me to admit to the whole genealogy blogosphere, but I was a little Linus. I carried around thisView full post »
Children of Carl Magnus Klarstrom, Part Ten: Charlotta Eugenia Viktoria Klarström
Charlotta Eugenia Viktoria Klarstrom, (or Eugenia as she was called), was my great-grandmother. She was the tenth (andView full post »
Shopping Through the Ages: 1903
Join me this week as we shop though the 1903 Sears, Roebuck, & Co. catalog. You can find the catalogs online ifView full post »
Oh, and please bear with me for the next few days as I make some modifications to my blog design. I have some work to do on header design and such and thinks might look a little awkward until I get it fixed.