Blogging
Happy Blogoversary, footnoteMaven!
It’s hard to believe that’s only been two years since the public debut of footnoteMaven, the proprietress of her pseudonymously eponymous blog as well as of Shades of the Departed. In that short time, her publications have set the bar higher and higher for content and she has become by acclamation one of the respected leaders of the Geneablogosphere. She …
February 28, 2009 Saturday at 1:26 pm
A Whole Lotta Church, A Whole Lotta Food
The past seven days for my extended family have included: the biggest family Thanksgiving gathering in a decade (preceded by Thanksgiving Mass on Thursday morning); five family birthdays, una quincenara (a family friend), which included, of course, a Mass, and most unfortunately, a funeral for a relative who died suddenly just before festivities began and which had us all on …
December 2, 2008 Tuesday at 8:55 am
Getting to Know Me–Getting to Know GeneaBlogie
Terry Thornton, the renowned Hill Country of Monroe County story-teller, suggested that it would be good to have genea-bloggers introduce themselves and their blogs, so we can keep up with our growing community. Terry has collected all the posts submitted by September 27, 2008, I had intended to finish mine up on September 26, but I ended up in the …
October 5, 2008 Sunday at 10:37 am
Technical Difficulties Spoil Carnival Submission
I was up till hours way past my bedtime wrestling with a WordPress problem that wrecked my Carnival submission. There were a number of photographs and the software (in the theme, I think) just would not post them correctly. It put them on top of each other; it placed them side by side in a row when they were meant …
September 2, 2008 Tuesday at 5:56 pm
Coming Up on GeneaBlogie!
Starting this week: a multi-part series on Social Networks and Genealogy–starts Thursday. Sept 1: Deadline for Show and Tell at the Carnival! Next week: another multi-part series: 40 Years On – A Memoir of 1968 Oct 3-5: A GeneaBlogie Special Event! More info coming soon!
August 25, 2008 Monday at 8:51 pm
The Carnival is Up!
The 54th edition of the Carnival of Genealogy is hosted by Donna Pointkouski at What’s Past is Prologue. It’s the one on family language. There are funny posts, poignant ones, thoughtful ones, presented by a number of bloggers. Check it out! And it’s time for preparing the 55th Carnival. Call for submissions! With Labor Day and the end of summer …
August 18, 2008 Monday at 8:33 pm
I Think the Term is “Hubris” . . . .
What on earth ever possessed me to enter every event in the 2008 Games, what with school starting and all?!
August 18, 2008 Monday at 8:22 pm
Why I Blog: Reason No. (???)
A few days ago, a young man commented on a blog post I had written sometime last year. He noted that the man referred to in that post as my father’s cousin was the young man’s grandfather. I soon heard from the young man’s brother, followed in turn by their mother. We’ve had a lively email exchange of information; confirming …
August 15, 2008 Friday at 5:29 pm
GeneaBlogie Among “Best of the Best”
at Alltop. Our friend the footnoteMaven was among the first, if not the first, of the genea-bloggers to notice that the site Alltop.com has added a genealogy section. And her blogs were listed! fM closed her post about Alltop with an enticing “See anyone you know?” So we had to look and there was GeneaBlogie! Allltop describes itself as a …
August 12, 2008 Tuesday at 7:47 pm
The 2008 Summer GeneaBloggers Games
Some of the clever administrators at the GeneaBloggers Group on Facebook (Thomas, Miriam, Kathryn) have put together the 2008 Summer GeneaBloggers Games. Although I missed the Opening Ceremonies, I will be competing in every category. The Games end on August 25. Below are the categories and rules. Also below is my flag. It’s taken from the flag of Ghana, representing …
August 10, 2008 Sunday at 7:21 pm
