cool adventures

What will happen to all of our genealogy blogs and websites?

Our genealogy blogs and websites will inevitably disappear in the future. What is your plan for preserving your years of research?

Genealogy

Using newspaper collections in genealogy research

A continuation of my MyHeritage guest post and how using newspaper collections can extend and possibly correct genealogy research.

Genealogy

Ringing in 2022 with Genealogists on Twitter

Genealogists on Twitter is a collection of profiles for Twitter genealogists and family historians.

Genealogy

1890 New Bedford photo album featured in South Coast Today | Standard-Times

131 years and 6 months after New Bedford's high school class of 1890 held their graduation exercises, photos of 47 members of the group appeared in New Bedford's South Coast Today | Standard Times.

Life

A blog post about every 1 1/2 years, that seems about right

When the pandemic began, it felt like we should write about it, but I didn't enjoy it and, let's face it, the whole world was writing about it. By May 2020, I wanted to escape the pandemic, not rehash it over and over. So, I did other things...

Genealogy

What would our ancestors say?

May 6 was our 56th day of isolation and, while most people’s quarantine time is slightly less, people have had it with isolating. Gone are the #stayathome pleas of the […]

April 2020

Spring arrived

Spring has arrived. The flowers are blooming and the birds are chirping. The fishing boats are once again heading out each day and the huge row of lobster traps that […]

Genealogy

Normalizing by doing what is normal

The last week flew by primarily because I got back to doing what I did the majority of the time before the pandemic started. Sure, we didn’t go to any […]

April 2020

Groundhog Days

From our couch, we can see a groundhog that lives in the field between our apartment and the ocean. We see him come out of the ground and walk around very close to his home a few times a week. Gee, who does that sound like?

March 2020

Will life go back to normal after the coronavirus pandemic?

When confronted with a challenging situation, my mother would almost […]

March 2020

We escaped

On Saturday, 21 March at 8:30 AM we escaped. It was a little chilly and kind of grey this morning. Drinking coffee and looking out at the ocean, we noted […]

March 2020

Flattening the Curve

While there were several contenders for week one’s most-used phrase – social distancing, self-isolating, stay the [insert your favorite term] home – flattening the curve is essentially what it is […]

March 2020

We've always been early adopters

So, why did we enter into self-imposed isolation on 12 March 2020 before it was suggested or required for people with no symptoms or exposure? We knew it was going […]

March 2020

Isolation: the beginning

We were still living in Boston a few blocks from Fenway Park when the Coronavirus outbreak began. We’d moved to Boston in 2018 when we came back from living in […]

Redsox

Boston Red Sox Winter Weekend: What’s it really like?

For the past few years, before the Red Sox have […]

Athens

Christmas in Athens, Greece

After visiting so many wonderful places over the last year on the road, we wanted to return to one of our very favorites for the holidays – Athens. Greece in […]

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