I’ll bet you thought from the title of this that this would be a post full of all the yummy things my Mom created in the kitchen during my childhood. Hardly. My mother wasn’t a very good cook. In her defense, her mother, my grandmother Jenny, wasn’t much better, so she really had no one…
As I was sitting at a stoplight yesterday after I left work, I thought of my Dad. I think of my Dad a lot when I’m at a stoplight, actually. When I was a little girl and was sitting at a stoplight with my Dad, he had me convinced that he was a powerful psychic…
NERGC 2019 officially starts today and as I sit sipping my coffee in the lobby waiting for the first session to begin, there is a real buzz going on all around me. There are many first-timers here who have that gleam in their eye of a genealogy kid in a proverbial candy store. NERGC promises…
You’ve seen it in my previous posts…I love it when genealogy and technology comes together. So, I was very happy to see that one of my favorite genealogy conferences, New England Regional Genealogical Conference (NERGC) had promised a conference app for NERGC 2019 which is taking place in Manchester, New Hampshire this week. I think…
Do you have Irish ancestors in your tree? If you do, you know how challenging Irish research can be. Professional genealogist Donna Moughty specializes in Irish research. In fact, I hired her myself about a year ago through Genealogy.Coach to help me navigate a new Irish branch of my family tree that I didn’t know…
I met Melanie McComb for the first time at RootsTech2018. She and I were both RootsTech Ambassadors. We hung out in the Media Hub, talking genealogy and blogging. We shared some research interests in Connecticut and Massachusetts. I was impressed with her vision and goals for her genealogy career – many of those goals she…