I love to read the blogs of my fellow writers, and have to admit that there are times when following one blog and their blogroll leads me to another blog, then to another, then another.... well you get the idea. By the time I am done I have crisscrossed the world and totally forgotten why I was on the computer in the first place. It's a good pasttime recently since I have been feeling very under the weather, but also good for those times I call "Wandering Weekends."
Anecstories: The Stories of My Ancestors is one of those blogs I discovered in my wandering events and landed on for further exploration. Miriam Robbins Midkiff of Spokane Washington teaches Online Genealogy per her profile, and has written other blogs as well. Miriam is also the coordinator of Scanfest, an opportunity to join together at her blog and chat while scanning your important photos and documents. The next Scanfest is this Sunday, April 25, from 11am to 2pm, Pacific Daylight Time.
One of my favorite is the series called "52 Weeks of Online Digital Archives and Databases." Recently the state was Indiana, the week before Illinois. I have had several successful finds while using these databases and look forward each week to the next state, which are being posted in alphabetical order.
Miriam also has a weekly theme called "Funeral Card Friday." Be sure to swing by and see what you may learn from her blog.
Til Next time.
Showing posts with label Follow Friday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Follow Friday. Show all posts
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Friday, April 16, 2010
Follow Friday
Today I would like to suggest that you take a moment to stop by and read Greta's Genealogy Bog. Written by Greta Koehl of Virgina, she is one of the first blogs I began to follow when I made the leap into blogging world. Her continued encouragement and support is a treat and I always look forward to her perspectives on what I have to write.
Noted on her blog to be "seriously obssessed with genealogy since 2005", Greta's blog reflects her pesonality well and even includes what she calls a "Who-Hoo Wall", which is where she proudly displays her awards. (An idea I wish I had come up with I must admit). One of my favorite posts of hers was just this week when she noted her "Office Assistants". Being a fellow human who must learn to ask permission from the critters in my home in order to sit on my bed or use my computer table when the cats want to sleep or climb, I had to laugh out loud.
Some of Greta's regular features include a Family & Friends Newsletter posted on Fridays that includes notes on research, blogs, and other news, and Memory Monday. Greta was also named one of Family Tree Magazine's 40 Best Genealogy Blogs in February of this year. Now that is something to "Who-Hoo" about!
Noted on her blog to be "seriously obssessed with genealogy since 2005", Greta's blog reflects her pesonality well and even includes what she calls a "Who-Hoo Wall", which is where she proudly displays her awards. (An idea I wish I had come up with I must admit). One of my favorite posts of hers was just this week when she noted her "Office Assistants". Being a fellow human who must learn to ask permission from the critters in my home in order to sit on my bed or use my computer table when the cats want to sleep or climb, I had to laugh out loud.
Some of Greta's regular features include a Family & Friends Newsletter posted on Fridays that includes notes on research, blogs, and other news, and Memory Monday. Greta was also named one of Family Tree Magazine's 40 Best Genealogy Blogs in February of this year. Now that is something to "Who-Hoo" about!
Friday, April 9, 2010
Follow Friday
I have not written entries for Follow Friday in the past for several reasons, but as I spend more time becoming familiar with my fellow bloggers and read their blogs on a regular basis I feel more comfortable contributing to this column. I decided that I would highlight one blog in particular this week, Tina Lyons Gen Wish List.
In addition to being a fellow Hoosier, I love her motto "Where Genealogy Goals Meet Reality." I also find her open honesty in her researching pursuits to be very refreshing. Some of the aspects of her blog that I enjoy include what she calls her monthly "shout outs" in which she acknowledges those bloggers who have taken a moment of their time to make a comment on her entries. All bloggers appreciate knowing that what they write touches others and her acknowledgement of that also gives others the opportunity to view these bloggers in return.
Another feature she includes monthly is her "Genealogy To Do List" coupled with her "Monthly Genealogy Goals In Review." I think this is something I am going to have to begin doing. It's one thing to make a list of New Year Resolutions, but if these are not reviewed and consistently pursued then I will find myself frustrated at the end of the year.
Other recent columns of Tina's include: How I Influenced Ancestry- The Tale of Unenhanced Images- Part 2 , and her continued participation in the weekly 52 Weeks to Better Genealogy.
Be sure to mozy over there and read Tina's blog- I think you'll be hooked.
In addition to being a fellow Hoosier, I love her motto "Where Genealogy Goals Meet Reality." I also find her open honesty in her researching pursuits to be very refreshing. Some of the aspects of her blog that I enjoy include what she calls her monthly "shout outs" in which she acknowledges those bloggers who have taken a moment of their time to make a comment on her entries. All bloggers appreciate knowing that what they write touches others and her acknowledgement of that also gives others the opportunity to view these bloggers in return.
Another feature she includes monthly is her "Genealogy To Do List" coupled with her "Monthly Genealogy Goals In Review." I think this is something I am going to have to begin doing. It's one thing to make a list of New Year Resolutions, but if these are not reviewed and consistently pursued then I will find myself frustrated at the end of the year.
Other recent columns of Tina's include: How I Influenced Ancestry- The Tale of Unenhanced Images- Part 2 , and her continued participation in the weekly 52 Weeks to Better Genealogy.
Be sure to mozy over there and read Tina's blog- I think you'll be hooked.
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