The 7th in a Series on my Family Tree … Volume II Prompt: Outcast ~*~ What happens when people withdraw from the family? Could they be considered outcasts by choice? My maternal grandmother, Alice (Gordon) McDonall (1916-1994), comes up quite often in these family tree posts, as well she might. Granny Alice was an extraordinary … More The Need for Self-Preservation
The 6th in a Series on my Family Tree … Volume II Prompt: Social Media ~*~ Where would we be today if not for the internet and social media? I’m old enough to remember the time before life was seemingly overtaken by technology. Everything was slower. Genealogy research, for instance, involved a lot of letter … More Social Media the Old-fashioned Way
The 5th in a Series … Volume II Prompt: Oops! ~*~ The climb up the family tree is just one misplaced footfall away from an inconvenient “Oops!” An incorrect date can throw off an entire lineage. A misspelled name or wrong location can yield a labyrinth of erroneous information or plummet us into an endless … More The Perils of Careless Recordkeeping
Shedding Light on the Family Tree 