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A puzzling new photo for my ancestor wall

This week I was contacted by a second cousin, Judi Nigh, who recently found a photo of my grandmother, uncles, and aunt. Judi’s grandmother, Phenaty May Taylor Johnson, was the half-sister of my grandfather, Charles Fountain Faulkner. The description on the back of the photo was a bit puzzling. The address, 8682 Vincennes Avenue, Chicago, […]

Genealogy

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 early weeks to stop the spread. At the same time, over 275,000 people have died worldwide from the pandemic, with over 68,000 in the U.S. […]

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 were stacked downstairs by the water have all but disappeared. Yet, while there have obviously been thousands of springtimes, this one has to be one […]

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 restaurants, movies, or take the train into Boston, but it was actually an enjoyable week, even though we never left the apartment building once. In […]

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 always say, “This too shall pass.” As she died 14 years ago, it isn’t a phrase I’ve heard recently, yet I woke up in the middle of the night a few days ago with her words in my head. Surely it was my subconscious dealing […]

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 that no one was around. So we made a run for it. Well, a walk for it anyway. This was actually our second attempt at […]

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 all about. Stay home, sit on your couch, and try to stop the spread of this damn thing. Americans responded by running out in crowds, […]

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 to happen for us by the time we left Florida on the 6th –it just came much faster than we anticipated. My spouse, Greg, had […]

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 Europe and attended over half the Red Sox regular season home and all but one of the post-season games in 2018. Good times. Having tired […]

Redsox

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

For the past few years, before the Red Sox have headed off to Florida for spring training, they’ve hosted a weekend get-together for the Fenway Faithful at Foxwoods Resort and Casino. Back in November, we hit the “sign us up!” button for the Red Sox Winter Weekend the day tickets became available. We weren’t alone […]

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