My Visit to the Library of Congress

My New Year's Research and Blogging Resolutions

Memory Monday: My Monsters
Memory Monday: Scary Movies details my childhood love of horror movies and notes that a particular source of terror was The Beast With Five Fingers.The Beast headed the gallery of imaginary Monsters who terrified me in those fuzzy minutes between lights out and sleep. My overactive imagination attributed all kinds of horrible forms and supernatural powers to these nighttime creepers, but there were some limitations as to what and where they could be. 1. Monsters did not live under my bed. They might sneak into my room and creep under my bed to hide, but it was not their usual abode

Follow Friday: Begin With Craft
Begin With Craft is one of the blogs that I am careful to read every post in. For one thing, Valerie and I share an area of research – South Carolina (Anderson and Greenville counties) (Georgia is her other major area of research). For another, she attacks her research and recording of family memories from every possible angle, thereby providing a good model to emulate. As I read her transcriptions, listen to her recordings, and watch her videos of family stories, I realize that I should be adapting my scattershot approach and including these things in my own research. Some examples: a post on a family home that includes both a pictur

Family Newsletter Friday: 7-20 November 2009
NormanReturned to working on the enormous Joseph Madison Carroll Norman family. I had been working on some of the children when I got in touch with other Norman researchers and was given a copy of the Inez Cline history. My approach is to be back to square one (i.e., the first child with known descendants, Leatha Norman) and use the Cline history plus my other resources.Data Backup Day (November 1)Something I forgot to include in a previous post – How I Spent Data Backup Day (and did this before I realized it was the first of the month, Data Backup Day):1. Cleaned out e-mail folders. 2. Cleaned

Featured Family Friday: Obediah Victor Sisson and Sarah Jane Carpenter
Obediah Victor Sisson b. 18 Sep 1852, Alabama d. 25 Feb 1913& Sarah Jane Carpenter b. 30 Jun 1844 d. 31 Dec 1927, Talladega, Alabama m. 17 Sep 1874, Talladega, Alabama|--Henry Turner Sisson|----b. 6 Jan 1879, Alabama|----d. 26 Dec 1945, Alabama|--Annie Belle Sisson|----b. May 1880, Alabama|----d. bef 1930|---& Wesley Edgar Clifton|----b. 28 Oct 1879, Alabama|----m. 25 Jun 1904, Eden, St. Clair Co., Alabama|--James P. Sisson|----b. 1 Feb 1882, Alabama|----d. 13 May 1912, Talladega, Alabama|--Lena Sisson*|----b. Feb 1884, Alabama|---& William S. Gilbert|----

Kreativ Gratitude: My Secret Genealogy Ambitions
I write the following as a sincere "thank you" to Sherry Stocking Kline of Family Tree Writer (a very informative and entertaining blog - check it out if you haven't already) for the Kreativ Blogger Award. I was so entranced