As I type this, I am enjoying 80 degree weather in San Jose del Cabo, Mexico. Scott and I have been here almost a week, having come down to spend some post-Christmas time with our daughter, Caitlin, her two boys, her husband and his family. Tuesday, it’s back to Connecticut where the temperature has been hovering […]
Read MoreI entered a contest to win a 4-day pass to RootsTech 2018 on the Family History Fanatics website. I learned about the site when I took a webinar on Power Scrapbooking with Devon Noel Lee a few weeks back. If you have any interest at all in digital scrapbooking, I encourage you to check out […]
Read MoreI did it!! I made a commitment to post every day for Family History Month and actually achieved it! As my final post this month, I want to share my Master Toolbox with you. Click on the link to open and view. Several years ago I participated in Thomas MacEntee’s Genealogy Do-Over. One of the tasks was to create […]
Read MoreI was planning to report on the DNA Webinar I watched today, but the organizer postponed it until November 5. Click on the link if you’re interested in registering. Instead, I will share some points I learned from one of the webinars I viewed during today’s My Heritage One-Day Genealogy Seminar. Actually, it was the perfect […]
Read MoreAs a follow-up to yesterday’s post, I’m sharing the results of my DNA test. I tested with FamilyTreeDNA way back in 2014. At that point, I was 100% Jewish. Their algorithms have become more refined since then, so now I’m only 98%!! Notice the big blue bubble over Europe? I used a red arrow to […]
Read MoreAs Family History Month winds down (Yay! I’m 28 for 28 posts!!) I decided to share why I started doing genealogy. My family is a little bit complicated. My father divorced my mother when I was 7 and remarried three times. I have three full-sisters from his first marriage, a half-sister from his second marriage, […]
Read MoreI’m pretty proud that I have, so far, stuck to my commitment to post every day of October – Family History Month. But, I must admit, I’m running short on ideas! Today, I’m posting a few significant events that happened on this date throughout the years. I ran the “On this Date” report from my RootsMagic genealogy […]
Read MoreThe old joke goes, “Is insanity hereditary? Yes- you get it from your kids!” But, truly, mental illness is no joke. So, I tread very carefully when dealing with this difficult issue in my research. What purpose does it serve to expose ancestors’ mental health issues? In the case of my current project, the story […]
Read MoreMy mother, Doris Lichtenthal, passed away on December 2, 2011. Her purse has been sitting, untouched on the floor of my closet since then. I just can’t make myself get rid of it. As her executrix, I did go through it after her passing, but it seemed like some sort of violation. Like a sacred […]
Read MoreI had a little scare on Monday. Upon booting up my 5 year-old laptop I had no internet. Okay. That’s happened before – no biggie. But wait – no sound either? The message said the “audio service” was not working. Strange. Also, the button to toggle the wireless adapter on/off didn’t respond. Hmmm. I knew […]
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Who We Are and How We Got This Way 