Follow Friday - 31 Dec 2010

Follow Friday - 31 Dec 2010

My recommendations this week. As usual, I normally pick one or two good posts from my week's readings, or left from the prior week! Hope they are useful or at least interesting to you, as well! If it is your first visit, even better!  ;-)

POST 1:

I have previously mentioned  posts by Dan Curis - Professional Personal Historian. This week I am recommending his "My Top 10 Posts of 2010." I'm pretty confident there is something useful for just about everyone in this list.

Have a Great New Year!


Families are Forever!  ;-)

Follow Friday - 24 Dec 2010

Follow Friday - 24 Dec 2010

My recommendations this week. As usual, I normally pick one or two good posts from my week's readings, or left from the prior week! Hope they are useful or at least interesting to you, as well! If it is your first visit, even better!  ;-)


POST 1:

This post is full of neat links, and they have links, and they have links. Good, fun reading. Comments included. Stop when you want... or keep following the links of interest!

My Seven Links post by "The Armchair Genealogist"

Families are Forever!  ;-)

Follow up to Dec 18 post

The Dec 18 post was about Christmas stockings... from the old days, when our three daughters were young. This week we are visiting our grandkids in Austin, TX. I noticed their Christmas Stockings "hung with care" ... "In hopes that St. Nick would soon be there" ... the tree is only a few feet away. Their stockings are a little fancier - and each has two:

Merry Christmas!  ;-)


Families are Forever!  ;-)

Advent Calendar - Dec 18 - Christmas Stockings

Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories for December 18
Christmas Stockings

This Blog is pleased to join with other GeneaBloggers around the world in presenting this Advent Calendar over the next 24 days leading up to the Christmas celebration - a different topic each day. We will attempt to post on each of the topics. Our invitation continues to be open to other writers to join us here with your comments (See Nov 29, Dec 5, Dec 12, and Dec 19 posts here - laber 'Advent Calendar' - for the topics; or the link in the title, here).

Christmas Stockings

Rather than Christmas Stockings of ancestors today, this will be about Christmas Stockings of our descendants... and continue the topic of minimalism. These Christmas Stockings are also celebrating the 50th anniversary of their 'beginnings' as Annette is celebrating her 50th year, this year, as well. [She even got to attend Silver Dollar City, the theme park, free, a few weeks back, because they are also celebrating their 50th anniversary, and everyone with a 50th birthday in 2010 got free admission, all year!]

Nancy made the stockings, as the girls arrived... we've used them every year. More symbolic than terribly useful, of course, expect for an apple, an orange, some nuts, some candy - perhaps a candy cane or two; oh, and often earrings or other jewelry in little boxes, hidden along the way... I won't bore you with the photos of the Christmas Stocking, heavy laden, with all the other gifts stacked around, many, many years, over the 50 years, but I do have them!

We'll not be home on Christmas, this year, so the stockings are hung in remembrance of all those great years past.


Families are Forever!  ;-)

Follow Friday - 17 Dec 2010

Follow Friday - 17 Dec 2010

My recommendations this week. As usual, I normally pick one or two good posts from my week's readings, or left from the prior week! Hope they are useful or at least interesting to you, as well! If it is your first visit, even better!  ;-)


POST 1:

Again this week, I'd like to thank Randy Seaver for bringing this excellent blog post to my attention:
"How I Got Here - The Path to Becoming a Family Historian" by Marian Pierre-Louis

This is worth reading, no matter your situation, as a tribute to family influences and as a reminder of our responsibilities to your children, their children, etc.

A quote from Marian's post:
"My message to you is be an example for your children or grandchildren.  Don't force them to learn family history but consistently live your life so that you model in all your actions and interactions the importance of family history.  I would argue that that is one of the most effective ways to encourage future generations.'


Families are Forever!  ;-)

Last Five Days of Advent Calendar Topics

 Last Five Days of Advent Calendar Topics

 I still seek Guest Posts for one or more of the days of Advent remaining - see the following
Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories:

December 20 – Religious Services
: Did your family attend religious services during the Christmas season? What were the customs and traditions involved?

December 21 – Christmas Music
: What songs did your family listen to during Christmas? Did you ever go caroling? Did you have a favorite song?

December 22 – Christmas and Deceased Relatives: 
Did your family visit the cemetery at Christmas? How did your family honor deceased family members at Christmas?

December 23 – Christmas Sweetheart Memories: 
Do you have a special memory of a first Christmas present from a sweetheart? How did you spend your first Christmas together? Any Christmas engagements or weddings among your ancestors?

December 24 – Christmas Eve
: How did you, your family or your ancestors spend Christmas Eve?

If you have a one, two or three paragraph comment you would like to include here, send it to me by email, or even in the comments here, and I will include it in the post for the correct day; likely along with my own comments. Let's give it a try.


Families are Forever!  ;-)

Advent Calendar - Dec 15 - Holiday Happenings

Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories for December 15
Holiday Happenings

This Blog is pleased to join with other GeneaBloggers around the world in presenting this Advent Calendar over the next 24 days leading up to the Christmas celebration - a different topic each day. We will attempt to post on each of the topics. Our invitation continues to be open to other writers to join us here with your comments (See Nov 29, Dec 5, Dec 12, and Dec 19 posts here - laber 'Advent Calendar' - for the topics; or the link in the title, here).

Holiday Happenings

I'm taking a little different tack on this one. I just published an Examiner.com article on using holiday family gatherings as a time to ask about past holiday stories and getting more family information for your family written down. You may check it out at: http://www.examiner.com/genealogy-in-springfield-mo/christmas-gatherings-will-dominate-the-next-ten-days-are-your-questions-ready

Enjoy!  ;-)

Families are Forever!  ;-)