Posted in Genealogy In General on Jan 24th, 2008 No Comments »
I just wanted to pop in and share a little something with everyone. Some may find this interesting but others will just say it’s no big deal. I thought it was pretty interesting.
In researching my Forbes ancestry, I have been able to take pride in our Scottish heritage. My interesting find is that, according to [...]
Posted in Genealogy In General on Jan 23rd, 2008 1 Comment »
Hi everyone!
I’ve been busy lately but I still am working on my genealogy. I’ve actually made pretty good progress on documenting some of my research but I had to take a break because I was starting to get burnt out!
I wanted to post a question to my readers (the few, the proud) about [...]
Posted in Genealogy In General on Jan 12th, 2008 1 Comment »
Tonight, while researching my Forbes ancestry, I happened upon a book at Google Books. The title is The Scottish Nation - Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours and the Biographical History of the People of Scotland. Yeah, that is quite a title. However I made a very interesting discovery.
Here’s the deal. Recently, I was approached by someone [...]
Posted in Genealogy In General on Jun 24th, 2007 1 Comment »
Well, I thought I would pop in and write a quick blog about what is happening in my life right now. Yes, it is genealogy related.
I’ve been very busy lately with trying to get things together at my mother-in-law’s house. We have had to put her in a retirement center due to the fact that [...]
Posted in Genealogy In General on Jun 8th, 2007 1 Comment »
Well, another genealogical day has come and gone! Today was quite an eventful day for me. I didn’t figure I would accomplish much, being as I had a doctor’s appointment with a brand new doctor. However, I was able to finish a binder for my immediate family tonight.
I wrote a while back about redoing all [...]
Posted in Genealogy In General on Jun 5th, 2007 No Comments »
In cruising the blog sites today, I ran across an item on Randy Seaver’s blog about “Sharing Genealogy Information“. It, in turn, was referencing an article by Lisa Alzo called “To Give Or Not To Give: What Would You Do?“. I thought I would take a stab at my take on this subject.
First off, [...]
Posted in Genealogy In General on Jun 4th, 2007 No Comments »
Hey everyone, I hope you are all doing OK!
I just wanted to pop in (at 3 in the morning!) to tell you all a little about the families I am researching. I just thought I would post it since I haven’t ever mentioned anything about what surnames I am researching and such. So, here goes.
My [...]
Posted in Genealogy In General on May 26th, 2007 No Comments »
Hi again everyone! I’ve been looking at a lot of neat stuff in the last couple of days. One really neat thing deserves mentioning on here!
I have searched for my grandfather and grandmother Forbes’ marriage license for the last 7 years and have yet to locate it! Of course, I know they were married, I [...]
Posted in Genealogy In General on May 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Well, it has to happen to everyone. The time comes for folks to realize that their system is not working! Today it’s my turn!
For years I have just put my research into binders and added new info as needed, rearranging my binders and info as needed. Of course, that was alright when I only had [...]
Posted in Genealogy In General on May 5th, 2007 No Comments »
I have a major dilemma going on. I have been gathering lots of information from Ancestry.com and have been able to increase the findings in my research substantially. I now find myself with a dilemma of how to merge my GedCom files!
