New Mexico is 100 Years Old Today!
So what do Billy the Kid, Smokey Bear, Kit Carson, Microsoft, atomic bombs, and Isabella of Castile have in common? They each in some way have iconic connections to our 47th state, the Land of Enchantment, which was admitted to the Union on January 6, 1912. And you can learn more about each of them and their place in New …
January 6, 2012 Friday at 1:00 am
Billy the Kid, Smokey Bear, and Kit Carson . . .
What to do they have in common with Microsoft, atomic bombs, and Isabella of Castile? Coming this week at GeneaBlogie!
January 1, 2012 Sunday at 9:53 am
The Zen of Genealogy & The Art of Rocket Science
I know some rocket scientists. Rocket scientists are friends of mine. And I know something about rocket science itself. I was born several years before the Sputnik launch, and was in school after that event as America wrung its collective hands about “why Johnny can’t read” and whether American kids were up to competition with Communist Russian kids. Then, as …
December 30, 2011 Friday at 11:04 pm
Comments:Issues Resolved!
But don’t overlook the captcha below the comment. I hated to have to do that, but it became necessary to fight the forces of evil!
December 24, 2011 Saturday at 10:51 am
My Teachers: Theodora Cooper (Gold Edition)
Last week, technical difficulties prevented us from presenting this post in full. We now run it in its entirety. Mrs. Cooper was my fourth grade teacher. I remember her (from the vantage point of a half century past) as an “older” woman with graying hair that probably had been blonde. Of course, as a fourth grader, I had no …
December 23, 2011 Friday at 11:18 pm
My Teachers: An Occasional Series
A few months ago, I discovered that my elementary school has an “alumni page” on Facebook. People were posting about their various experiences in grade school and of course, about the teachers. Frequently expressed sentiments included “I wonder where Mrs. X is today?” or “I wish I could get in touch with Mr. Y.” It was great fun sharing memories …
December 17, 2011 Saturday at 5:13 pm
Blog Caroling: O, Little Town of Bethlehem
Like many creative things in our Geneablogosphere, blog caroling owes its origin to the irrepressible footnoteMaven. Since I blogged earlier this month at the Catholic Gene [here] that my favorite Christmas Carol is O Holy Night, this evening here I’ll blog carol my second favorite Christmas song, with the mandatory Nat King Cole rendition. O Little Town of Bethlehem O …
December 14, 2011 Wednesday at 11:10 pm
Don’t Cry About the SSDI
Last spring we did a two part series on the Social Security Death Index and it progenitor, the Death Master File. The posts are here and here. The series was prompted in part by reports of errors in the Death Master file, especially those which reported living persons as deceased. We learned that nearly 90% of the information in the …
November 8, 2011 Tuesday at 10:53 pm
Getting Back to Some Hard Genealogy
It took a near-disaster in the form of a hard disk failure to bring me back to doing some basic genealogy. I took me a week to recover and reassemble my files, which had been backed up onto three different systems. The redundancy was a fortunate thing born out of some lethargy in organization. As a fortuitous happenstance, I lost …
October 5, 2011 Wednesday at 5:26 pm
