Bluebonnet Country Genealogy

First of all, thanks to Donna of What’s Past is Prologue for my 2nd BFF award! Philadelphia isn’t really that far from Texas… not for us cousins!
And now.. for The Games!
The 2008 Genea-Blogger Group Games will begin on Friday and I must decide which event(s) to compete in. Since the 100m Backstroke is [...]

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Last week my 11-year-old granddaughter was at Camp Fire camp and this is the letter she wrote to me from camp:

Family…PRICELESS!!!

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I’m interested in contacting more relatives of Miriam’s “ancestor”, Alice Teddy:

I see a definite family resemblance to someone my Dad once knew:

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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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While going through my Mom’s red photo album, I found another distinguished (and furry!) cousin:

Here’s my grandmother and another goat from about 1922. Goats musta worked cheap in those days!

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Check out the 24/7 Family History blog (image from 1919):

Now check out this picture of my grandmother from about 1919:

Do you suppose descendants of their goat have any old documents or photographs to share with descendants of my goat?

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Here’s what Wordle displayed from the narrative report that RootsMagic created about my Mom:

By the way…Thanks, footnoteMaven! If I washed those dishes, then they would get spoiled and expect to be washed every day!

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