What a wonderful story! Thank you for sharing it.

I agree that it is just summer. Many work on family history in the winter.

You are off on an adventure. Congratulations. French records can be a bit daunting. So hang in there.

One of my family's claims to fame. My 2X great-grandmother was Elizabeth Jane Douras. The family story was that we were related to Marion Davies the famous silent movie star who had an affair with William Randolph Hearst. Davies was Marion's stage name her birth name was Marion Douras. I was...

What a great page!

Susan, it took me a while to figure out how I wanted to use Zotero. Now I can't do anything without it. LOL. I am currently making photobooks about my Dad's military career and photobooks of the letters my Mom sent to her family while we were in the military. All the documents have been scanned...

I am what you might call a semi-professional genealogist. I have written up case studies and been published in a number of state-level genealogy magazines. I use Family Tree Maker (FTM) but would not recommend it. The only reason I use it is I started out with it and used a lot of workarounds to...

I use FamilySearch all the time in my research. I use the catalog to find microfilm/digitized images of original records.

Just found this forum! I would love to see people's ideas for scraping letters and documents. My gallery is full of ones I have done documenting my Dad's military career and the letters my Mom wrote while we were stationed at various places around the world. I am always looking for new ideas...

Night School

Night School

Easter at Grandma Gilchrest's in Scarsdale, New York

Night School

I love how you used the multimedia sun!