Posted in events on Sep 3rd, 2008
Mary Tennessee Turner Rogers, James Richard Wright, Maryland Sue Stanley Hall. Home of Miles Francis Stanley II, Fort Worth, TX. February, 1968. Digital scan of original photograph from Mom’s Red Photo Album. Private collection Ruth Stephens, Benbrook, TX. 2008.
Posted in back-up, organization, technology on Aug 19th, 2008
For the past few days, I have been working on my Genea-Bloggers Group Games events. I have added descriptions and tags to 43 images that I have saved in the database of my great-great grandfather, Miles Francis Stanley I.
Part of that time was spent trying to figure out the best way to describe/tag/upload using the [...]
…while admiring the Chart Chick’s wonderful genealogy charts presented at Shades of the Departed…
I decided it was really time for me to do some actual research. So, after blow-drying my laptop, I got to examining my Appling ancestors from Tuscaloosa Co, Alabama. The Applings married into my Stanley family (my Mom was a Stanley). I [...]
I have been going through some of my Mom’s photo albums for pix to add to my RootsMagic database. These are wonderful resources! One in particular is an old red album that she apparently started when she and my Dad first got married. There are a bunch of images of both my parents as young [...]
Posted in just for fun on Jul 8th, 2008
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!
Posted in events on Jan 19th, 2008
I have been so busy at work that I missed the last Carnival of Genealogy, so I figured I’d better get something going right now for the next Carnival! The topic will be: If you could have dinner with four of your ancestors who would they be and why? What a great question! [...]
Posted in research sites on Oct 15th, 2007
I have been watching Footnote.com for some time now. This site had oodles of historical documents and genealogy material. And the fee for a 1-yr membership is very reasonable at $59.95. However, I have never found anything about any of my individual ancestors…never, until tonight.For the past few months, Footnote has been slowly adding Texas [...]
Posted in technology on Oct 6th, 2007
Sometime back I found a wonderful site that had the 1830 Federal Census for Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, where my Stanley ancestors once lived. The file was not searcheable, but could be downloaded free as a pdf file to browse. I had tried several times to download the file, but I have dial-up and apparently the [...]
Posted in research sites on Sep 10th, 2007
I have been working on my Stanleys, and have gotten to my great-great grandfather, Miles Francis Stanley I. I have been pretty lucky with him, as I’ve found a lot of info online. I have pretty well reconstructed his entire life! How?To begin with, I received a few documents and a photograph from my aunt. [...]
The previous post presents a dilemma: How does one handle an adoption when researching one’s ancestry?
As I have said previously, my great-grandfather John Thomas Stanley and his brother Henry Thomas Fair were abandoned as small children and found by my great-great grandfather Miles Francis Stanley. Miles and his wife Maryland adopted John and Maryland’s sister [...]
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