Motivation and Strategies to Help You Create and Preserve Your Most Important Moments
I started my own journey many years ago with simple tools that were available in those far off, archaic days of film cameras and scrapbooks and photo albums. Our written stories were recorded in diaries and journals or personal hand-written letters. Mementos were stored away in “treasure boxes” like old metal lunch boxes and cardboard storage boxes. The most special of items (of a small nature) were shut away in safety deposit boxes, never to see the light of day.
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We discussed ways to save money with Free Databases, Free Copies, and working on site in Part 1 of Researching on a Shoestring. Now we will conclude with 4 more categories of genealogical research.
Continue reading “Genealogy Research on a Shoestring – Part 2”
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How do we go about finding what we need without “breaking the bank”???
Genealogy is a wonderful and very addicting hobby. For many it goes from hobby to passion. It’s one of those activities that you either love or hate.
Research is the foundation of all genealogy. And many records are hidden away or archived and it takes a real sleuth to find all those little treasures.
Continue reading “Genealogy Research on a Shoestring – Part 1”
Where is it??? Where did I save it????
When was the last time you needed a picture or document and couldn’t find it? Did you buy or download a digital book or map and can’t remember where you saved it? Maybe it was a file you saved years ago or maybe it was something you found just last week.
Continue reading “6 Reasons Why You Should Digitize Your Photos and Documents”
Argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Denial! It didn’t really happen! It couldn’t happen! I don’t do this!!!!!!!
And yet… it did! I lost an entire hard drive of photos because I didn’t take a minute (or actually an evening) to back up the pictures!!!
I definitely fall into the hobbyist photographer category. I started with an instamatic when I was a child and moved to a 35 mm film camera as a teenager. (Read about my journey into photography HERE.) I have a lower end Canon DSLR that I have had since 2002. I love my phone camera and use it almost daily, but I do use my DSLR for nearly any event I photograph. I like having the zoom in particular because I can take photos without being in everyone’s face. That is, by far, my biggest draw to a DSLR camera. Not sure that I could ever be happy without the chance of grabbing it to get certain shots.
Camera phones are great… so why consider a DSLR?
Continue reading “Photography – Why Step into the DSLR World”
“Success today! Great way to start a Friday!”
This was the announcement made by a parent this morning as she checked her child in at her daycare. Her fingerprint had scanned well, her ticket had printed and torn off easily.
What a simple task to help determine the course of her day!
One little incident can oft times start our day off on a positive path or set us on a downward spiral that can easily get out of control. Those moments that fill our days have the power to determine our course. We give them that power. We hand off our control to the actions and incidents in our day that we don’t have control of to begin with.
Why?
The 52 Ancestors challenge for Week 4 (since i’m trying to play catch up) is “I’d Like to Meet”. As a genealogist who has been researching for many years, this list is long, full, and “colorful”. There are dozens of individuals on my list who are direct ancestors, not to mention all those who are cousins, uncles, aunts, in-laws, and such.
This is my first official “52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks” challenge and the person who came to mind first is actually someone I have met … my grandfather, Wilbur Franklin Stump. So my challenge title is “I’d Like to Meet … Again”.
My grandfather (“Grampa” as my grandmother used to say when she would sign cards and letters) died when I was 13 years old. He passed away on my older brother’s birthday and was buried on my younger brother’s birthday. It was just after Thanksgiving. I remember the night well. My parents received the call after we had gone to bed, but I can clearly remember the emotions as I lay in my bed listening to my mom’s side of the conversation. They didn’t tell us until the next morning, but I already knew what was coming.
Today will likely be the coldest high temperature recorded in history for our area. Northern Indiana is expecting a high today of -12 in my area. That beats the old record (set in 1899) by 4 degrees (-8). We are currently at that -12 degrees with a windchill right now of -43. I realize that many areas in our world have easily seen colder temps, but it’s definitely newsworthy and dangerous.
I am also one of the fortunate people to have a day off sue to my employer closing for the day. Woohoo!!!! That rarely happens. But now with a day that i can stay home snuggled on my reclined with my warm slippers and comfy blankets… what do I consider doing?
It’s the PERFECT day to test out the frozen soap bubbles I have seen over the past several years!!!!!!
I did it!
I finally took the plunge! This challenge has been around for a few years. I’m not typically the person who jumps on the band wagon the first time I hear about it. I tend to be a lurker and watch what is being done and how people respond to things before I jump in. The same is true about this one. This year is certainly going to be a year of new things for me to do.
