Elyse's Genealogy Blog

Losing your genealogy to some sort of disaster (computer crash, fire, flood, etc) is devasting. It is important to put preventative measures into place NOW – because your genealogy could be wiped out at any minute. That is why I signed up for Mozy. Mozy is a free backup service that downloads onto your computer, [...]

Wow – a TON of wonderful people have just nominated me for the Kreative Blogger Award! Thank you so incredibly much! I know the rules say that I am supposed to tag 5 people…but most of the blogs that I read on a regular basis have already been tagged! So…I am not going to tag [...]

I highly suggest that you head over to GenealogyBank.com to check out some of their new features (like searching multiple states and cities). These are some long overdue features – and I really think that it will make searching a lot easier on their site. I would love to hear what you guys think!

As I was going through my grandparents’ 50th Wedding Anniversary Album the other night, my mom and I got to talking about them. She told me the stories she’s heard from when they first began dating. My grandparents both lived in Seattle in the late 1920s and early 1930s. My grandparents met through the catholic [...]

My switch to binders has been going pretty well thus far.  I’ve been following DearMyrtle’s Organization Checklists (I’m moving a bit slower than the checklists say, but still) and I’ve made some pretty heavy progress. First thing I did was buy a ton of acid free page protectors.  Then I put all of my notes [...]

Food has always been an important part of my family.  Between the dinner parties and teaching children how to cook – we are food people. Christmas morning was always fun and full of food.  After presents were open, my mom would take me and my two cousins into the kitchen to cook breakfast for everyone. [...]

The topic for the 65th Edition of the Carnival of Genealogy is to describe your happy dance. The last time I had my happy dance was last Thursday. A woman who descends from my Keppler line (which is a very difficult line for me) found my cousin Joan’s email address on the web. So, she [...]

I just wanted to remind everyone that today is Data Backup Day! Make sure that you backup all of you genealogy files, pictures, documents, etc. Preferably, have more than one place to store you backups – or even send a copy to a relative in another state, just in case something were to happen to [...]

Randy Seaver over at Genea-Musings posted an awesome fun challenge. Here are the rules in order to play along: 1.) Go to your My Pictures folder (or the equivalent) and pick out the 6th item in that folder. Then pick out the 6th item in that folder, and so forth, until you get to an [...]