December 1st - Our Christmas Tree Tradition
When I was growing up, there were no trips out into the bush to cut a fresh tree. If we had put up a real tree, by Christmas Day there would have been just a pile of needles, because we always put the tree up on Mom's birthday, November 30th. It was that way from my first memories until I was out on

I'm The One Holding The Camera!
I have been looking through my photos, getting ready to scan a lot of them, and I was reminiscing, as we all do when looking at family photos. I found all of the pictures I have of my mother, not very many, either she was on the other end of the camera or there was no camera available to take pictures.I starte

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Celebrity Look-alikes
From Randy at Genea-musings - It's Saturday Night again - are you ready for some Genealogy Fun?Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to find which celebrities that have the same facial features that you (or someone else you choose) have. Here are the directions:1) Go to http://www.myheritage.com/ - you don't have to be a registered member to use this feature. Click on the "Celebrities and Fun" tab.2) Click on the "Celebrity Collage" tab, and then on the "Create my Collage" button.3) Upload a photograph with your face (or another person's face) to the site (the face must be at least 100 x 10

How Easy Is That? Getting My License
I have been putting off getting a Creative Commons license to protect my blog content because I didn't know how to go about it, but it was just a matter of filling in a form and choosing which license I needed and copying and pasting HTML code into a box!I want to share the information on my blog

Geneablogger's Winter 2009 Cookbook - Call for Recipes