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Fancy a Cuppa By the Cathedral? 18 Aug 2013 | 03:28 am
Duffin, Simon. Fancy a Cuppa by the Cathedral? Leicester, England: Troubador, 2013. This is a book for tourists to England who want their cup of coffee or tea after visiting the local cathedral. Eac...
I Had It Wrong 4 Jul 2013 | 08:29 pm
For years I had something in my genealogical database that was completely wrong. It was something I'd put in there in the early years of my research and something I had not gone back and revisited as ...
A Murder in Passing 2 Jul 2013 | 12:00 pm
De Castrique, Mark. A Murder in Passing. Scottsdale, Ariz.: Poisoned Pen Press, 2013. Sam and Nakayla are mushroom hunting on the site of the former Kingdom of the Happy Land along the North Carolina...
The Amish Canning Cookbook 1 Jul 2013 | 12:00 pm
Varozza, Georgia. The Amish Canning Cookbook: Plain and Simple Living at Its Homemade Best. Eugene, Ore.: Harvest House Publishers, 2013. In simple language, the author tells newcomers to canning how...
It's Fun to Stay at the Y. M. C. A. 1 Jul 2013 | 12:06 am
If you grew up during the 1970s, you are probably like me, the first thing you think of when you hear the acronym Y. M. C. A. is the song by the Village People. Yesterday, I was checking on informatio...
Thoughts on Research and Sensitive Information 29 Jun 2013 | 11:11 pm
During the past week, I've uncovered a couple of family stories involving persons who married into the family which may have been sensitive. In one case, I chose to publish the results to the blog. No...
Abe's Widow Vivian 28 Jun 2013 | 07:00 pm
One of my grandfather's brothers was a schoolteacher. Abraham Lowden Lantz, Jr. first taught at the Amish School (sometimes called the Lantz School) near Gibson, Monroe County, Mississippi. The Amish ...
A Shocking Discovery 27 Jun 2013 | 09:26 pm
Have you ever made a discovery that really surprised you? I did that yesterday as I was researching one of my grandfather's sisters yesterday. What was the shocking discovery? That her husband had bee...
Brick Wall: Thomas Duke 26 Jun 2013 | 07:17 pm
Today's blog post is about one of my brick wall ancestors. It's also a product of the beginnings of a review of the information I have on this family. I have noted in here gaps in my database because ...
The Perfect Peach 11 Jun 2013 | 12:00 pm
Masumoto, David Mas; Musumoto, Marcy; and Masumoto, Nikiko. The Perfect Peach: Recipes and Stories from the Masumoto Family Farm. New York: Ten Speed Press, 2013. The Masumoto family owns a peach orc...
