Today marks the last post in Belle’s box, archival book two. Two down, one to go! The third book had fewer transcriptions and more photos. I don’t know the names of each person in the photos, but I will continue to post each item. The entire series will end before the annual reunion of Belle’s … Read more
Thanks to Harriet for the Friendly Blogger Award she has bestowed on me. I have found the blogging, and more particularly Geneablogging is all about discussion, sharing and being friendly. My cyber blogging genealogy friends are the best. I think they are all so good, that they already have this award. I never let that … Read more
Thanks to Kathryn of the California Genealogical Society and Library, and Erline at Ancestral Notes for the “One Lovely Blog Award”. According the Kathryn’s post regarding the award, I need to pass the honor on to seven writers. Since this award has been been going around for a while, that is a difficult task. As … Read more
The Michigan Genealogical Council (MGC) is once again appealing to genealogists to contact their legislators with regard to budget cuts affecting the Library of Michigan, and other libraries in Michigan. An executive order issued and filed with the Michigan Secretary of State on May 5, 2009 lists budget cuts to all Michigan departments. You can … Read more
I had a few minutes today, and I spent it looking for family death on Seeking Michigan. I had copied the information from a ledger at the Ingham County court house, but I wanted the certificate. This explains how I managed to print the image without the big thick black border, and save the image to … Read more
Well, it finally happened, I bet you have see this, or at least watched the discussion regarding the post. It the writer intended to attract attention, I’ll bet it worked! At the route of the criticism are the following statements: Blogs are easy to create, “anyone who can type and use the internet” may do … Read more
The Michigan State Senate Appropriations committee will meet Thursday, March 12, 2009. The agenda calls for discussions regarding budget appropriations for the Department of History Arts and Libraries, which is apparently will be dissolved and the functions split among other departments. A current, partly substantiated, rumor has the Library of Michigan being closed completely, with … Read more
I’ve started a series of “Not so Wordless Wednesday” posts over on GrannyPam. There aren’t really genealogy, but the are old family photos. Well they are at least as old as I am. I thought I’d let those of you that enjoy looking at older photos know that you can find them by searching that … Read more
There is a little buzz over at Geneabloggers, and Geneabloggers on Facebook about data backup day, which is a great idea which Thomas put out there. Since my data situation may be a little more complicated than most peoples, I though I would outline my backup plan here. This is a plan for the data … Read more
I received a notice today from Genealogy Fun that Harriet has gifted me with an award! This is the first time this blog has received an award, so I feel happy and honored. Harriet said that she was enjoying my posts tagged “Belle’s Box”. I’m just the most recent of a large group of genealogists … Read more