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Way-Back Advent Calendar: Holiday Parties

Ah, the holidays. The perfect time to break out your velvety dress and pointy party hat: That’s my grandma on the left. … and play party games, whilst wearing your pointy party hat: That’s my grandpa...

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Way-Back Advent Calendar: Mom’s 1st Xmas

My mom was the oldest of four and, true to form, my grandparents took TONS of photos of her at any opportunity to do so. Thus, we have a plethora of pics to peruse from her first Christmas: Mom and...

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Way-Back Advent Calendar: Christmas Gifts

As with most first-time parents, I think Christmases after my mom was born were all about presents for her (and then her and her siblings), as far as my grandparents were concerned. Here’s mom at...

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Picnic for Twelve — A Family Memoir

I am happy to report that one of my clients has published Picnic for Twelve, a book about his parents and their growing family as they navigated The Great Depression and other events over the last...

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Way-Back Advent Calendar: Holiday Travel

I don’t really know much about this photo except that my mom and Aunt Joan are the two girls on the right. I don’t think that this is at my grandparent’s house. The tree is uncharacteristically huge...

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Way-Back Advent Calendar: 1st Xmas, Part 2

I have still more photos from my mom’s first Christmas to share. These three photos of her with my grandpa are so stinkin’ cute: Christmas 1949

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Way-Back Advent Calendar: Religion

This is the closest I could find to anything with a religious bent for today’s post (note the creche in the background). That’s my mom on the left, Aunt Teri in the middle and Aunt Joan on the right....

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Way-Back Advent Calendar: Music

This is the only photo I found that even came close to today’s topic of Christmas music. I know I had a piano like that when I was small. I can still here the tinny plink-plink-plink it would emit when...

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My 2013 Genealogy Re-Boot

2013 will be a year of big change for me. I’m starting a new job closer to my home and one of the results of this will be recouping hours each week previously spent in my car commuting. I’m hoping this...

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Scrapbook for Calendar Journaling

Hop over to my business blog by clicking on this picture to see what new scrapbooking project I’ve started for 2013!

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SNGF: Where Were They 100 Years Ago

Dear Reader: Do you think you are related to the individuals listed in this post? Please drop me a note! I love hearing from cousins and others researching my family! Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night...

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Calendar Journaling January

Reblogged from Bayside Research Services: I did it! Not without some cheating, but I completely journaled the month of January for my 2013 scrapbook. Here is what the page started out as on January 1:...

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How’d I Do in January?

Okay, okay, okay. It’s only February and I’m already behind on my January goals. But I do have good reasons. First, let’s grade my progress. Here are the goals I set for myself for each month:...

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News about The Hill in Easton

The Asbury AME church dominates the view down South Lane in The Hill neighborhood in Easton. There’s beginning to be a lot of buzz about The Hill, perhaps the oldest established African-American...

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How’d I Do in February? (Not Good.)

February has come and gone and I pretty much missed all of my personal monthly genealogy goals. I’m going to continue to blame my client projects, as they did take up all of my available genealogy...

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The Hill Featured on Eastern Shore Savvy

Reblogged from Bayside Research Services: The Hill Featured on Eastern Shore Savvy I provided some background for this article about a local school group that toured black history landmarks here in...

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Calendar Journaling February

Reblogged from Bayside Research Services: While I did manage to get something down on paper for every day in February, I didn't actually journal each and every day. In fact, there were a couple...

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When Your 2nd Cousin Is Also Your Great Grand Uncle

Dear Reader: Do you think you are related to the individuals listed in this post? Please drop me a note! I love hearing from cousins and others researching my family! I spent yesterday staying out of...

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Way-Back Easter: Happy Mom

Digging out more photos from the treasure trove my aunt shared with me last year. Here are some gems of my mom at age 2 or 3 on Easter Sunday:

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I Completed My March Goals!

April Fools! I didn’t really come close. Here are my monthly goals (only one of which I met): Processing one document/source per week (if not more) into my RootsMagic database. Writing at least one...

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