Bluebonnet Country Genealogy

of Hill Country of Monroe County, Mississippi for the neat GeneaBlogger image in the right column!

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Shades of the Departed has a really neat Friday From The Collectors post today! Chart Chick Janet Hovorka of Generations Maps has presented some examples of the type of genealogy charts that Generations Maps can produce, and they are awesome! These are not the usual descendent or pedigree looks. Janet has incorporated old family photos [...]

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This from Tim of Genealogy Reviews Online:
“Worlds Oldest Blogger” Dies at 108
Olive Riley, known as the worlds oldest blogger, died this past weekend.  Born in 1899, Olive posted regularly on her blog titled All About Olive for about a year and a half (the blog is currently not working).  Since that time, she’s posted over [...]

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J L Bell from Boston 1775 posted this interesting item from The Massachusetts Historical Society’s site.
Josiah Flagg was a “Surgeon Dentist” in 1796 Boston:

This advertisement assures Bostonians that Dr Flagg:
“Traisplants [sic] both live and dead Teeth with greater conveniency, and gives less pain than heretofore practiced in Europe or America:—Sews up Hare Lips;—Cures Ulcers;—Extracts Teeth [...]

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A fun little addition to a blog is a signature. Interested?
Check out this site!

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Well, it seems Ancestry.com has finally figured out that it stepped on a few toes (smashed, squished, squushed, mangled!) with its “Internet Biographical Collection”, and on Wednesday removed the database from its site entirely! It’s nice to know that we in the genealogical community have a voice!
I realize that today is not Saturday, but since [...]

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I have decided to try out a new project, or subproject, for this blog. In my routine internet searching efforts, I occasionally run across some really great genealogy sites. So, in keeping with the theme of the USGenWeb site, “Land of the Free…Genealogy”, each Saturday a free genealogy web site will be spotlighted at Free [...]

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I was just visiting Steve Danko’s genealogy blog and he had a neat little map that shows where his blog’s visitors are located from around the world. It might be interesting to see where my visitors are from, in relation to my specific genealogy and surnames. For example, my Stanley ancestors came to Texas from [...]

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I bought myself an iPod Nano for Hanukkah last year, and I have downloaded or copied a lot of music to it. I listen to it when I walk (which I should do several days per week, but don’t!) and when I clean house. It has never occurred to me that my iPod could help [...]

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That would be really messy, too!I have completed my new template. After about 7 hours last night and a couple more this morning, it’s pretty much done. I think it has turned out really well.It is now completely the new beta Blogger style, which I didn’t understand very well until I read a post on [...]

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