Bluebonnet Country Genealogy

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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A few days ago, I was reading a post on DearMYRTLE’s genealogy blog, and learned that FamilySearch.org has set up a site where you can view un-indexed genealogy records on microfilm. Only a few types of records are available now, as this is a test-site to evaluate, among other things, the image-viewer they plan [...]

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I was wandering about the Web last night, looking for interesting genealogy blogs. I like to see how the “other guy” works, you see. I came across a very useful site, Genealogy Blog Finder. From there I checked out one gentleman’s blog and he had the neatest little slide-show of old family pix! The slideshow [...]

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Today I added an RSS feed from Dick Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter (with permission, of course!). Mr. Eastman has all the latest happenings from the world of genealogy! I read his newsletter every day and I frequently find something I can use, whether it be links to new databases, information on new genealogy software or [...]

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I read Dick Eastman’s Online Genealogy blog daily, and today he mentioned a new database at GenealogyBank.com. So, I checked this site, and discovered that it has a lot of old newspapers, including the Dallas Morning News and the Fort Worth Star Telegram.Well, just to see what would happen, I put in [...]

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