Bluebonnet Country Genealogy

…are now available at the Bluebonnet Country Genealogy Library!

The “rewrite” went much faster than I thought it would, so I uploaded it this morning.

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I have been fighting (literally, it seems!) with OpenOffice Writer for 2 days! I have been trying to put together an ebook of Dr N B Kennedy’s Civil War service, and Writer has been bucking me all the way. It’s probably me, as I have never taken so much as one “office” class, such as [...]

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…downloading Dr John F Kennedy’s NARA file to my hard drive, along with all the other goodies I have found on Footnote in the past several days. Why? You see, it’s like this….(remember the Saturday Night Live skits about Wayne’s World? The part where Wayne and Garth fade away into their day dreams (usually about [...]

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It was so much fun turning Isaac Turner’s pension file into a book that I have decided to do the same thing with Dr N B Kennedy’s Civil War service records. I have already created 7 pages (doing it right the first time!), so stay tuned!

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This publishing stuff is like a whole new language to me! I have learned so much in the past 2 days about using OpenOffice (Impress vs Writer) to create an e-book, exporting it as a .pdf document and then uploading it to Lulu.com and getting it ready to be viewed.
To begin with, I originally started [...]

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Isaac Turner’s Union Civil War Pension File is finally ready for the world:

I have created a 62-page e-book in .pdf format. For whatever reason, I was not able to upload the file to my WordPress Media Library, so I set up a storefront at Lulu.com. This is a first, so we’ll see how it goes. [...]

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