Welcome to my blog. I’ve been doing genealogy research for years, and now I feel a strong desire to begin writing the story of my family. I’d like to make this blog a place to document my research steps as well as a place for my scattered ideas for family stories to be collected and to germinate. To me, the hardest part of writing has always been to begin. This is my beginning…
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Top Posts
- Group Sheets using Excel
- Excel and Word Group Sheet Templates
- Working It Wednesday - Timeline in Excel (Part 1)
- From Deed to Map
- Marion and Franklin Counties, Alabama
- Family Friday - William Stephens part 1
- Making the PowerPoint Plan
- Timeline in Excel - Part 2
- Ripley County, Missouri - Stephens Families
- Those Ridiculous Deed Measurements
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Categories
- 1890 Russell Co, KY (14)
- 52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy (2)
- Adair County Kentucky (2)
- Alsace France (1)
- Chicago (3)
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- Danville (6)
- Deaths (2)
- Denmark (1)
- Douglas County, Illinois (2)
- Early Kentucky History Research (20)
- Excel (10)
- Family Friday (8)
- Family Tree Maker (1)
- Fort Harrod (15)
- Franklin County Alabama (1)
- Germany (2)
- Goals (1)
- Indiana (6)
- Introductions (4)
- John M Smith (16)
- Johnson County (5)
- Kankakee County, Illinois (2)
- Kentucky (12)
- Land Records (36)
- MacBook (1)
- Madness Monday (4)
- Marion County Alabama (2)
- Memories (1)
- Military (12)
- Organization (32)
- Personal (5)
- Photography (3)
- PowerPoint (2)
- Research (71)
- Revolutionary War (2)
- Ripley County Missouri (4)
- RootsTech (1)
- Russell County Smiths (17)
- Russell County, Kentucky (70)
- Saturday Night Fun (2)
- Shelby County Indiana (1)
- Smith Station (4)
- Software (6)
- Surname: Coffey (1)
- Surname: Dabelstein (3)
- Surname: Gilpin (1)
- Surname: Powell (2)
- Surname: Scott (4)
- Surname: Stephens (30)
- Surname: VonLanken (1)
- Thoughtful Thursday (2)
- Timeline Tuesday (7)
- Tombstone Tuesday (7)
- Wayne County Kentucky (1)
- William Smith (2)
- Wordless Wednesday (5)
- Working It Wednesday (15)
Posts
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- June 2009 (22)
- May 2009 (23)
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Recent Comments
Lucy Chapman Sweigar… on About Me lvonlanken on A New Generation! Charlie Purvis on A New Generation! lvonlanken on Marion County, Alabama Su… Margaret Stephens on Marion County, Alabama Su…
Hi and congratulations on your beginning… I admire and applaud what you’re doing with this blog and your family history search.
I’m a “rookie” genealogist. I’ve just begun researching my family history and your first blog posts about your research methods are wonderful and most helpful.
I’ve also maintained a “family and friends” blog for almost a year now and would like to incorporate my newfound hobby in the blog. Your blog will be an inspiration as well as a guide (i.e. I may steal some of your ideas!
Gotta’ run,
Kenny
Wow – I love the look here and I think you are off to a great start. Let me know if you need any assistance!
Welcome to the GeneaBlogosphere!
Thank U for stopping by Musings of a Mad Macedonian!
I am so glad to find someone else rootin’ around in Kentucky!
I have ties to Owesnboro, Fordsville, and other parts of KY I’m not sure about, and only in the last year or so have I made enough progress to add to, and complicate the mysteries that are my Mothers various, Maternal, and Paternal, ancestors. ;-D
KY & Indiana are the hide-outs to the answers to these mysteries, and I’m re-organizing to continue my quests. ;-D
Thanks for checking out my blog! Sometimes, I feel like there’s only a handful of people researching in Kentucky, so I’m glad to meet you! I also have ties in Indiana from 1935 and forward! Good luck with your organizing and society work!