Elyse's Genealogy Blog

Saturday was a very eventful day…. It started out with Gini and her husband picking me up bright and early so we could get to the conference for the early morning lectures. I spent the early morning socializing with the other geneabloggers and checking my email using my laptop and the free wifi in the [...]

Since my Aunt moved into my apartment building, I have been fortunate enough to gain much of her old genealogy notes and many family pictures. She has been kind enough to allow me to look through her notes and use her notes to further my own research. My main challenge while looking through her work [...]

This past weekend I was fortunate enough to be able to go to the Southern California Genealogy Society Jamboree of 2009. The Jamboree was held in Burbank, California at the Marriot Hotel. I arrived to the hotel at about 8:15 on Friday morning. I had volunteered to help with the Kids Camp, which was being [...]

Since my Aunt has recently moved into my apartment building, I’ve been given permission to dig through her genealogy notes and lots of pictures. It has been wonderful. Just so you understand my joy and elation at what I found, I need to give you some back story…. I didn’t have any pictures of my [...]

I am so excited that I am officially going to my very first genealogy conference – The Southern California Genealogy Society’s Jamboree 2009. The conference will be held in Burbank, CA at the Burbank Airport Marriot on June 26-28. For this trip, I will be staying with my Aunt Caroline (who is officially my hero [...]

Just to let everyone know, I am now an affiliate of FamilyBuilder DNA. I got an email from the company, suggesting I try out their affiliate program. Why am I telling you this? Because I think it is important to be straight up with you. To be honest, I’ve never taken a DNA test before [...]