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Anyone Else Have This Problem - Oh, Sorry, It's Just Us Hillbillies ;-)

Posted by Jeanie DiLeonardo on August 15, 2009 at 9:55pm
I can't believe how many times I'm cranking away on my family tree in Ancestry.com, finding records with spouses and children and thinking "hey, that name sounds familiar" - and come to find out, yup! I've been here before - on the other side of the tree. Both sides are second or third or kissin' cousins. I guess that's what happens when you have a lot of ancestors in Kentucky... (ducks and runs)
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It's the Little Things in Life that Make Me Smile...

Posted by Jeanie DiLeonardo on August 15, 2009 at 9:00pm
A funny thing that I encounter is the different ways people will describe eye color or hair color. For example: I consider myself a redhead: my earliest photos show a wisp of light reddish hair, and there's always been a "warm" cast, even when the Florida sun lightened it. It irritated me a bit when a high school boyfriend's best friend gave me the nickname "Blondie" - that just didn't fit in with my self image! Likewise, I once was filling in a form and put "red" for hair color, only to have a
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Genealogy Disease

Posted by Eileen Cogan on July 22, 2009 at 11:30am
...news flashDoctors have discovered a new disease

SYMPTOMS: Obsession over finding more names, dates, and places. Patient has a blank expression on her face and often seems deaf to others. Has no taste for work of any kind, except for feverishly reading census records and entering data. Has a compulsion to write emails and spends hours sitting at a computer. Swears at the computer if there is no e-mail. Frequents strange places like cemeteries. Patient mumbles to self and has a strange faraway l
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10 Hard Truths About Genealogy

Posted by tami osmer glatz on July 11, 2009 at 6:30pm
1. There is no "A" in Cemetery.2. The census takers, more often than not, didn't really care when your relative was born, or how your relative's name was spelled. They spelled it like it sounded. They also didn't really care if the two year old hanging off of the Polish woman they were questioning was a boy or a girl, and they couldn't understand Polish anyway. Thats why your great uncle is a girl in 1900 and a boy in 1912. Its still the same person.3. There are occasionally errors in original r
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