Elyse's Genealogy Blog

Every toddler has that one object that brings the feeling of safety and security. For some kids its a teddy bear or a blanket that is dragged through everyday life like a best friend. For other kids it is a Binky that is only used when unsure situations occur. As a toddler, I had my [...]

I have decided to post the badges that I won from the Genea-Blogger Games here since they take too much space up on the sidebar. I won the Bronze Badge in “Back Up Your Genealogy” and in “Organize Your Genealogy”. I won the Platinum Badge in “Genealogical Acts of Kindness”. I won the Diamond Badge [...]

As of yesterday, another semester of school has started for me. There is no doubt that my schedule will now be filled with due dates for papers and exams to study for. I will probably be worried about my grant money coming in on time and stressed out over the bureaucracy of college. And of [...]

Since I have work tommorrow morning, I won’t be able to post my final tallie for the Genea-Blogger Games.I wish I would’ve had more time to work on these tasks, because they were rather fun to do. I also haven’t had the chance to post every little thing on this blog in the last few [...]

A few days ago, I visited the 24/7 Family History Circle (http://blogs.ancestry.com/circle/?p=2777) and one of their main articles is entitled “Call A Family Member”. After I read the short article, I realized that I hadn’t called my family members in Washington in a very long time. The generation that still lives up there is getting [...]

Wow – I just made SO many citations for this family. I went through my large stack of papers to seeing if I had the information recorded on my gedcom. Sure enough, I didn’t have everything, so I began creating the sources and filling in the gaps. Needless to say I put into my gedcom [...]

I was on Facebook today, and I noticed that someone mentioned a challenge to post some of the funny names, words, and phrases that are used in your family. Since my family practically has their own language, it seems fitting that I do the challenge. My family uses a million different words, nickname, and funny [...]

Alrighty so for the weekend I’ve had a pretty lousy cold and I’ve been out of it for a bit. However, the cold did give me time to do some work for the games on and offline that I haven’t recorded here. So, it is five in the morning and my stupid cough won’t go [...]

I saw a challenge on Facebook the other day: It asked people to write about their favorite memories of stores and to explain the influence that those stores made on their lives. To anyone who isn’t a genealogist, this topic probably sounds odd (especially if you aren’t a huge fan of shopping in the first [...]

Hi everyone!So this is a little bit off topic from genealogy – but it is still all about family. My cousin has an autoimmune disease called Scleroderma. Her local chapter of the Scleroderma Foundation is holding a Step Out To Cure Scleroderma Walk on Sept. 20th at Seward Park in Seattle, WA. I am asking [...]