Book about Me, Written by You

I haven't been doing much with this blog lately, however, I am participating in "the Book of Me, Written by You". Here is a link to that blog.
http://terisbook.blogspot.com/

Updating the binders.

This is a photo of some of my research my binders. As my sister has stated, I may be crazy. I have been spending a lot of time organizing and updating my binders. I have updated their covers with personalized photos. I am now updating the dividers in my binders with a personalized, tab divider page. I am hoping this lends more authority and importance to my research after I am gone. I have also been updated my citations, so on.

Cousin bait

I have heard much from genealogy friends about "cousin bait". I never really thought that this blog would attract any attention,  however, this week I received an email from a relative on the west coast. She is my second cousin once removed. Her grandmother was my mother's cousin. Her grandma and aunt always came to visit my Grandparents and I remember spending many hours with them playing cards and actually doing some crafting. It was so nice to know that my feeble attempts at blogging actually made a connection with someone.

This is a picture of Fran of my mother, two of her brothers, a cousin of mine, and Fran's daughter.

German Research

I got an email from a Lady who actually lived in Germany and did research at the Reide Church! I am so jealous! She was able to share a picture of that church with me. That is my goal someday to be able to go to Germany to the land of my ancestors.

Fogleman Reunion

A Fogleman reunion is scheduled for today at the Methodist Church in Washta, Iowa. I didn't know about the reunion due to a change in email addresses! I hope everyone has a wonderful time catching up!

Success!

Just this weekend, I had my first contact from someone who found me through my blog! I am so excited. She had relatives from the same area in Germany as some of my ancestors.

I am going through some "material" I received from my Great Aunt Ruby's research. There are two Banker's boxes full of papers so this will take a while to do it justice.

For a break, I am also going through my binders again. Now that they are basically up to date, I am going through and dressing up and fine tuning the binders. It is about time for the Genealogical Proof Standard study class to start, so bye for now!

Catch up time!

I have been absent for a long time, I know. I have spent a lot of time organizing my genealogy research folders and papers that had not yet been processed. I have gotten through everything I had stacked up, some back to 2002!!

My cousin's son added another twig to the family tree this month. That is dutifully recorded in my Roots Magic.

Next, I want to start going through the boxes I inherited from a great aunt who was an avid genealogist.

I am currently doing a study group on Thomas W. Jones book "Mastering Genealogical Proof". That is also keeping me very busy!