Fyrewurks

It felt like my family and I spent the whole of October celebrating Halloween; or at least celebrating the cool weather and the orange backdrop of fall, as well as out-of-town family & friends coming and going.
Our family loves fall anyway and we always get an early start on the festivities… this year it started [...]

We recently took a weekend road trip to OKC where we went to the zoo, the science museum, the art museum, and the botanical gardens and I just posted a lot of the pictures and trip details over at The Zoo Review - check it out!

Just like Hemingway. He showed me anyway. You can be a hero, all you have to know is what to say.
Unfortunately, I don’t always know what to say… but I do have a penchant for words and that’s why I was delighted to discover Hemingway in my family tree!  He’s not in the direct line, [...]

My family and I will be preparing for a big change this week - my husband gave his notice at his job and will be staying home while I go to work!  He will be a stay at home dad and take over all of the cooking and cleaning, some of the work on our [...]

…not blog.  No - a genealogy blog is not in the ‘wurks.’
After I couldn’t find any WordPress genealogy plugins, I started blogging about a line of my family tree in a separate family tree blog that I created.  Then, after only three generations took several painstaking hours of my time to write out, I decided [...]

Ok, as I mentioned in my last post, I’m planning on blogging on my family tree.  I was all ready to do that right here until I thought about how I would really need to categorize each family line separately.  And I don’t know that I want this blog to have all of those family [...]

I’ve decided that since this blog is all about me and my life, it would be the best place to post all of the genealogy information that I’ve gathered.
In the past few weeks I’ve visited relatives and gathered a wealth of photos and information about my family (and I still have more people to contact [...]

Ok, I don’t know how normal this is - but I was tracing a line of my family tree back and got to the name “Plantagenet,” at this point I was thinking “huh, that’s interesting, I wonder…”  So I kept going back and I ended up reaching Henry I and William the Conquerer among other famous royal figures [...]

A week ago I found a new obsession - Ancestry.com!  I decided to start working on our family tree and signed up with them because they have massive amounts of records scanned and added to their database - census records, immigration records, birth and death records, and much more.  So I decided that getting a [...]