It’s always nice to put a face to the many names in our family tree and I’m grateful that another researcher shared this picture with me.
This man is John Edwards, my 3rd great-grandfather. On the right is his second wife, Delia (Rudd Bybee) Edwards. I’m not sure who the girl on the left is – perhaps one of their granddaughters (they had no children together, so it would be from one of their first marriages). John died in May of 1931, so this picture must have been taken before then.
John Garriott was my 4th great-grandfather. He died 13 Jan 1882 and was buried in Barnes Cemetery in Mercer County, Missouri.
This photo was taken by Frank Murphy. I hope someday to visit his gravestone in person!
One of the reasons I’ve been so quiet on here {besides my computer crash and subsequent data loss} is the fact that my husband just graduated from the Sergeants Major Academy. We had a solid two weeks of ceremonies and goodbye parties to attend., along with out-of-town guests. There just hasn’t been any time for much of anything. Things have quieted down now though and “normal life” {whatever that is, right?} has resumed.
I just wanted to share a picture of my husband, walking the stage at his graduation. He is shaking hands with the Sergeant Major of the Army, and receiving his diploma.
And here is my daughter, wearing her daddy’s new rank.
Of course, his rank has changed yet again, as he has become a Command Sergeant Major instead of just a Sergeant Major. Seems kind of silly to have worn the rank for a single week. What a waste of thread. 🙂
Here he is at his battalion Change of Responsibility as he takes over as the new Command Sergeant Major. I’m so proud of him!!
I am kicking myself right now. And not a little nudge – an end of “The Karate Kid” type kick.
My laptop crashed and burned a couple of weeks ago. One night, I turned it off and the next morning it wouldn’t come back on properly.
It was the computer I used for EVERYTHING – genealogy, pictures, iTunes, etc.
My husband couldn’t figure out what was wrong with it (and either could I for that matter).
I wasn’t horribly worried, because I have all of my pics and iTunes library on my external, and the rest of my stuff backed up on Mozy.com
Or so I thought.
After a few days of going through computer withdrawals, I went in and got myself a new desktop. The screen is larger and it’s so much easier to use with a full-sized mouse.
Then I had the very daunting task of re-installing all of my programs and making sure I still had all of my files.
And that’s when it hit me. My genealogy files were gone. GONE. The latest Legacy backup on my external was from October. I hadn’t done it since then, because I had Mozy.com set up. That is, it was backing up my genealogy files until about a month ago. That’s when I switched my membership to a smaller file size. When I did that, I somehow managed to choose the wrong file to be backed up. So, I had a genealogy file being backed up daily, but it wasn’t my important genealogy file.
My 13 yr old daughter miraculously got the laptop up and running again, minus all of the files that were on it. How she managed to do that is beyond me. I guess it takes a teenager to get a dead computer running again.
I’ve been running a file recovery program, but Ellie had been playing around on the computer for a while after she fixed it and I can’t seem to find my file anywhere. It’s most likely gone for good and I’m having a very hard time coming to terms with that.
The bad news is that I’ve lost 3,000 people out of my database. And all of those people had information painstakingly entered in about them. Census records, will transcriptions, source citations.
The good news is that my media files are all saved and so I have all of the jpgs of pictures and records and along with emails and papers I have here, I can eventually piece together the work that was lost. But it’s going to take a long time. 🙁
I now have double and triple checked that the correct files are being backed up. It was a very hard lesson to learn. And it just kills me that had my computer died a month or two earlier, none of my files would have been lost.
It stinks, but I guess that means I’d better get to work! The summers here in El Paso are way too hot for me to handle, so staying inside and working on genealogy sounds like a good option to me.
I started a blog re-design this past week, but haven’t quite finished it yet. There are a lot of pages and links that aren’t up and running, but I hope that they will be soon! Please tell me – what do you think of the new layout so far?
We’ve had such a busy month and it’s only going to get busier!
We moved (a few streets away) and setting up a new house always takes a while.
We also just got a shipment of things that have been sitting in storage for the past year. I now have picture frames and knick-knacks and more furniture. Unfortunately, I’m the world’s worst picture-hanger – it almost cripples me trying to decide where to hang things.
I’ve been taking pictures for friends a few times a week – everyone I know is moving in the next couple of weeks and I’m getting some good photography practice with willing models. 🙂
My in-laws will be coming for a visit and we’re so excited to see them!
My husband will be graduating from the Sergeants Major Academy – and he’ll be taking over a battalion. His work days are about to get much longer…
Lots of things happening that are unfortunately keeping me from genealogy. 🙁 I’ve had cousins contact me with leads and I haven’t had much of a chance to follow up on them yet. I WILL carve out some time for some serious in-depth research, but it probably won’t be until the dust settles in July.
Well, on to my favorite finds….
And a few pictures to share – yes, I finally got to go to a hot air balloon festival!!
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