creative life designs: Friday Five {and a freebie}

creative life designs: Friday Five {and a freebie}

It has been a LONG time!

I have actually been doing some family history research ... but it has been a long time since I have been here! In December my oldest daughter was diagnosed with lymphoma and that has been keeping me busy since that time. We have actually made some pretty good headway in her research on her husband's family.

I am back!

I am listening to the geneabloggers radio show and thought I would post a little update. I have been working on updating my genealogy database and binders at the same time. In the last month, I have added several family members following births to Brian's cousins which were listed on Facebook. Social media is very useful to the family historian!

Grandma Minnie Schluntz Matzdorff Bible finds!

Mom's Pedigree chart

Kansas City Expos

Brian, Niki, and I are in Kansas City, Missouri! Niki and I have spent the last two days at the Family History Expo Genealogy Convention! We are in Laura Best's class regarding online research! We have had so much fun learning about German research, citing your sources, researching past 1850, using Roots Magic and so much more! I have seen so many people here that I have listened to being interviewed by Lisa Louisa Cooke! This is great!!!

Skill honing!

I am trying to arrange a trip to Kansas City for a genealogy expo that will be held there in July. I am so excited as normally they don't have expos in the midwest! Hopefully I will learn a lot!