by Britt Kelly | Jun 19, 2014 | Britt Kelly: Learning at Home
It has always astounded me how history text books can be so very boring when people themselves are so fascinating. It’s like they looked at this incredible banquet and were so overwhelmed they just wrote “there was a lot of food”. Hardly a rousing endorsement of the...
by Christine Bell | Jun 10, 2014 | Christine Bell--Genealogy
When I first began researching my family history, my grandmother suggested that I visit her older sister and ask what she remembered about our ancestors. I arranged a visit and she told me a wonderful story about her grandparents, John Louis and Esther Best Traxler....
by Christine Bell | Jun 3, 2014 | Christine Bell--Genealogy
When recording your life story, how you do it will be as unique as you are. Just as there are many ways to journal your life, there are many ways to write your personal history. Those who have never kept a journal or started keeping a journal later in life, like...
by Britt Kelly | Apr 24, 2014 | Britt Kelly: Learning at Home, Hobbies
On September 11, 2001 I watched a little of the horrible news, visited family, waited for word on some family…then we went to the library, gathered some books and we spent the day reading aloud. I’m a woman. I don’t do fight or flight all of the time. Frequently...
by Christine Bell | Apr 1, 2014 | Christine Bell--Genealogy
It may seem strange to compare a genealogy website like FamilySearch.org to Facebook but there are a lot of cool similarities. I will start with Facebook. What’s on your Facebook pages? On mine I have information about where I grew and the schools I have attended....