(Not So) Wordless Wednesday - Family Photographs: Post 81 -- My Red Fire Engine
I'm posting old family photographs from my collection on Wednesdays, but they won't be wordless Wednesday posts like others do - I simply am incapable of having a wordless post.This photograph is from the box of loose photographs given me by my mother between 1988 and 2002:

Creative Coffins
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Canadian County Atlas Project - Wonderful!
One of the many questions that we genealogy researchers want to answer is "where did my folks live?"As I was wandering through my 15-inch pile of "paper to be entered into my database and/or filed somewhere" today, I came across two maps from Norfolk County, Ontario. They showed where the lands of two of my ancestors, James A. Kemp in Middleton township and Alexander Sovereen in Windham township, weres located. However, the print of the maps I had was really fuzzy, and I couldn't find the exact land location even with a magnifying glass.Fortunately, one of the maps had an URL on it - http://digital.library.mcg

Drinking, Singing and Quarreling are dangerous to your livelihood
I've been working on my "to be reviewed and entered into my database if worthy" pile today (it is so nice to not have a speaking or teaching deadline for awhile!) and ran across this entry about a brother of my 2nd great-grandfather, David Auble:"William Auble, a native of Sussex, and a brother to David Auble, stabbed to death during a quarrel in Philadelphia, by two brothers, who sang obscene songs as Auble was returning from a party with ladies. Auble had a loaded pistol, but did not use it. The deceased, and the men who sent him to an early grave, were intimate acquaintances, and but for improper use of strong drink the trouble never would have occurred."

Getting Help with RootsMagic 4
During my adult education classes on Beginning Computer Genealogy this year, I recommend downloading one of the free genealogy software programs to help the students create as a "starter" database. I tell them that Legacy Family Tree (Standard Version), RootsMagic Essentials, Family Tree Builder and Personal Ancestral File are programs that a researcher can start with - for FREE - and if they buy a specific program later, they can import their data in the f