Vicki Entreken

Congrats Dave! I'm watching it now. 🙂

We've ben watching the Four Nations Face-Off. 🏒

Good luck!

Thanks everyone! Consider me inspired to pick up the research again! 💜

For projects where locating descendants was necessary, I used BeenVerified, but the data isn't necessarily accurate. Take it as a lead if anything. But it did get me the address for the package I mentioned, which was successful. Good luck! #GenHour

Thanks Marian.

Yes, this! And if you can include photos they'll relate to, even better. I found a woman on my mother's 1940 census. She's in her 90s now and phone calls didn't work at first. She was so happy to get my package full of pictures of people from her childhood.

Exactly. Also, after asking her to look at the back of one of the photos, a sister Mom never told me about, I found an aunt. She was only four hours away (Tampa-Jax) all that time. We've been close ever since. 💜

Oh well, happy birthday to you too, Elizabeth! 🎉 #GenHour

Genealogy love story and Thin Mints.
THAT sounds like a plan! #GenHour

If only I could keep my research mind shut for the duration, I might enjoy it. That's probably asking too much.

Thanks! I was trying to confirm if her "Geneva Barnett" was my grandmother. I didn't know. Then I saw a photo of her with my own mother holding my brother. Then I spent the rest of the week looking at images of a grandmother I'd never met. #GenHour

#GenHour I recorded a Hallmark Movie titled "Branching Out." Do I dare watch it? How bad can it be?

Same here in NC mountains. 🥶

I messaged a potential family member on Ancestry with no answer. It was a Mary Jones (not looking that up!) Then on a forum/board, I found she'd left a link to her fb page. She had 365 "ancestor photos!" That's where everything I researched was confirmed. I cried. My own mother was on there.

Hello! Thanks!

That's good news.

Congratulations!

Oh man. Nice.

Distractions? What could possibly be going on? 🙄
Seriously though, I'm right there with you. I've had zero focus.

Oh my. Thanks for this information! Seems like we're doing a ton of backing up lately. Nothing online remains dependable.

Haven't been researching lately, but I'm hoping #GenHour will inspire me enough to tear away from the politics. I did celebrate a birthday though. Yay me!
Looking forward to reading what everyone else has been doing. 🙂

Congratulations!

Nope. Not related.

That is a great screen shot. After watching, we talked about (wondered) how researchers get tapped for a project like Finding Your Roots. Did you find the newspaper story about the machine gun! He loved that. Nice work.

YouTube video by US National Archives The Archives — The Washington Parade

Might be nice to remember how Archivists saved our American history. Let's hope we don't lose this too. #archives #archivists

(10-Minute history of history.)
youtu.be/9YdoNLVp7iQ?...

Congratulations!

A Forgotten Galveston Home: Memoir Excerpt What would Mom do if I could show her the last home she lived in with her biological family when she was 5? Now, I can only imagine.

In Feb 2018, we slept in my mother's childhood Galveston home, where she lived with the family she never talked about, where her name (she never told me) was Geralda. Someone turned it into an Airbnb. For 2 weeks I did research, listened to ghosts, and wrote this👇. secretboxes.org/2024/02/16/f...

This is so heartbreaking.