Just a quick post to bring your attention to this article on calculating relationships. There have been many occasions where I would have loved to remove a cousin or two.

I’ve been out of the loop for a while and just heard today about many of the sites associated with USGenWeb moving off of the RootsWeb servers.  You can read more about it here and here. I think it’s great that they are disassociating (is that a word?) themselves with The Generations Network.  I’ve always believed [...]

If John McCain becomes president then I will forever have to hear the question, “Are you related to the president?”  See, the surname McKean is pronounced the same as the Senator’s surname, despite what that guy from Spinal Tap says.  Somewhere along the way it got mutilated into all sorts of spellings, from McCain to [...]

Often in our search for our ancestors we forget that we would have made very little progress if not for the help of volunteers who have spent countless hours compiling information, trekking through cemeteries, digging through dusty old records, etc.  We take a lot, but how much do we give back? I’ll admit, I don’t do [...]

I was in Fairfax, VA, for Christmas and didn’t get a chance to wish everyone a happy holiday.  I’m back home and just wanted to wish everyone a happy new year while I’m still coherent enough to type!  So Happy New Year!  If you don’t hear from me for a couple of days it’s because [...]

I found this video about the Obama/Cheney family tree while fooling around on StumbleUpon.  I offer no opinion of the contents. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJpFswlO-uY

I was just reading the Genealogy Blog which referenced an article on 10 Reasons Why the Internet Is No Substitute for a Library and it had me thinking (scary, I know).  I have found a lot of useful information on the internet and it’s always nice to have easy access to things like census records.  [...]

Stealing from babies is bad enough, but stealing from dead babies? Thirty-two-year-old Kevin Osbourne, and three others, used the birth certificates of 10 dead babies to create fake driver licences, open banks accounts and get loans worth nearly $30,000. The police do not know how the men actually decided which identities they would steal. The men posed [...]

So, I just moved a few blocks away from my old house and I have decided that moving is one of the ultimate evils of mankind.  If I ever have to move again I will simply leave everything where it is and buy new stuff for the new location.  Among the usual muscle aches and [...]

Wow!  It’s been a while!  A lot has been going on lately and unfortunately I haven’t had much time for genealogy.  I’m in the middle of moving, but as soon as I’m settled in I will be back to boring you to death with new posts.  My motivation has been lacking lately.  Every now and [...]