AnceStories: The Stories of My Ancestors

As I mentioned before, I photographed a few Civil War veterans' graves in Greenwood Memorial Terrace here in Spokane on Sunday. Here...

Last week, I picked up a small book from the New Book section of my local library: A Military Miscellany by Thomas Ayres, published 2006 by...

Yesterday afternoon, my 16-year-old daughter accompanied me to two local cemeteries so that we could honor the deceased of our families. I ...

I've been a fan of Robert Ragan's for quite a while. His Treasure Maps website subtitled Genealogy resource page - Your guide to ...

On April 21st, Eastern Washington Genealogical Society member Barbara Brazington taught a computer class entitled "Selected Military R...

On Sunday, several of us gathered to scan and chat via the Gizmo Project and also Windows Live Messenger for our monthly Scanfest . Susan ...

Ancestry.com is featuring its newly-packaged U.S. Military Collection with free access through D-Day (June 6th). The collection is a blend ...

One of my favorite genealogy magazines, Family Tree Magazine , has a new blog called Genealogy Insider , authored by Diane Haddad. I hope y...

Last Tuesday, I posted a press release from FamilySearch.org about its partnership with Footnote.com . Today I received the following pres...

Memorial Day began in the United States with the observation of Decoration Day, which was a day when citizens decorated the graves of Civil ...

Last weekend, I wrote about connecting with cousins using the cemeteries where your ancestors are buried. Today I would like to talk about...

Years ago I found this poem in a book handed down from my maternal great-grandparents, John Martin and Lillian Fern (STRONG) HOEKSTRA enti...

One of the many benefits of membership in Eastern Washington Genealogical Society is to receive (and part of the society's mission is t...

UPDATE: We will be using Gizmo as our means of chatting, rather than Windows Live Local. Go to Susan's blog here to get details on how...

Jasia of Creative Gene has posted the 24th Carnival of Genealogy on her blog here . The topic is Mothers! in honor of our recent holiday....

To continue from my post of yesterday, many major announcements were recently made about a variety of partnerships that will benefit the gen...

WorldVitalRecords.com will be making three partnership announcements today, Wednesday, May 16th, at 11:00 PM at the National Genealogical S...

I received another message from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints this morning. We are living in some exciting genealogical ...

I received the following message from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints today: FamilySearch Unveils Program to Increase Access...

Craig has a great post, " The Mothers of Me " on his blog, GeneaBlogie . It inspired me to write the following. These are my chil...