By Kathy Wait Myers, on September 28th, 2009
I had a bit of a panic attack on Friday! I decided to clean up the categories that I use in my blog entries… delete any subcategories… use just surnames instead of full names… centuries instead of decades… you can see my handiwork by clicking the dropdown arrow for “Categories” over there on the right [...]
By Kathy Wait Myers, on September 25th, 2009
Hey! I’m back! I don’t know if anyone noticed, but it’s been over a week since I last posted a blog. It’s not that I haven’t wanted to write, but that I was having a blog-dentity crisis! I was blogging through wordpress.com on one of their little starter accounts, but every time I tried to add [...]
By Kathy Wait Myers, on August 11th, 2009
My great grandmother Uella’s name was completely wrong on her headstone. It seems like everyone in that generation had several names that they went by, but don’t you think they would make a point of getting it right the first time on a headstone? Apparently, she was still alive then! First, she loses her husband… [...]
By Kathy Wait Myers, on August 5th, 2009
Uella with Freddie, Willard, Gladys, and Vernie (4 smallest kids) – Coos Bay Oregon? – 1915?
Whoa. Okay. So I’ve been taking a little time off of researching my roots so that I can study up on [...]
By Kathy Wait Myers, on August 2nd, 2009
I haven’t been doing much research during the past few days. Instead, I’ve been clearing the decks in my home office! I’m to the point with my genealogy findings where I feel like I’m ready to start trekking out to look for “real” paper documents and newspaper clippings. It’s a whole other story when I [...]
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