Real life obligations can sometimes get in the way of my genealogy fun and my best intentions to post about my last day at RootsTech2018. Almost a week late, but here I am today to show you my last day at RootsTech. Lots of emotions and a bit overwhelming on the last day. Two, incredible…
Yesterday at RootsTech was all about the expo hall, today was all about getting into some sessions and interviewing Scott Hamilton. Along the way I managed to get some professional head shots done, take a huge group photo with many of the Geneabloggers Tribe, buy a DNA kit from Living DNA, renew my subscription to…
The days are chock full here at RootsTech, but it adds up to really fun stuff! Sessions I attended three sessions Wednesday and would have done a third, but quite honestly, this girl’s head was swimming with all the information I was trying to take in. In a recap, first, the fabulous Judy Russell talked…
My mother used to like to kid with me and tell me that Valentine’s Day 1965 was the worst Valentine’s Day of her life. Mom was heavily pregnant with me, her fifth child. She had horrible lower back pain. Her ankles were swollen. She had constant heartburn. She hadn’t slept well in weeks. I was…
My grandmother never liked to talk about her father, Charles Comp. When I became interested in our family history when I was 15 years old, I would ask about him when we visited her in Beavercreek, Ohio. She would simply say that when she was 13 he disappeared. And then she would change the subject….