Wordless Wednesday: Lauren LeMaster

Lauren LeMaster, 2011 at Archery Center

Wordless Wednesday – a great way to share your old family photos! Create a post with the main focus being a photograph or image. Some posters also include attribute information as to the source of the image (date, location, owner, etc.). Wordless Wednesday is one of the longest running “memes” in the blogosphere and is an ongoing series at GeneaBloggers.

Tombstone Tuesday: Martin N. and Cora E. (Burley) Wehrly

Source: Salamonia Cemetery (Jay County, Indiana), Martin N. and Cora E. Wehrly marker, photographed by Travis LeMaster, 26 March 2009.

Martin Nimrod and Cora E. (BURLEY) WEHRLY are buried in the Salamonia Cemetery, Madison Township, Jay County, Indiana.  Martin was my paternal great granduncle.


Martin was born April 5, 1888 in Madison Township, Jay County, Indiana, the son of William P. and Olive Jane (SMITH) WEHRLY.


Cora was born in 1882 of unknown parentage.


They were married January 1, 1914 in Jay County, Indiana.  They resided in New Castle, Henry County, Indiana and had at least one child.


Martin died February 5, 1954.  Cora died in 1972.


Tombstone Tuesday – To participate in Tombstone Tuesday simply create a post which includes an image of a gravestone of one or more ancestors and it may also include a brief description of the image or the ancestor. This is an ongoing series at GeneaBloggers.

The Dropbox Experiment

I've been trying out Dropbox, a file sharing utility that will not only allow you to backup files online and sync files between computers, but will allow file sharing with others.  The service gives you 2 GB of storage. The best part about this utility is that it is free.


Once you sign up, you place files in your Dropbox directory on your PC and these files are then accessible from any other computer.  Simply just log into the website and you can access your "home" files from a library or anywhere else.


Another feature that I'm experimenting with is the file sharing feature.  You can designate a directory as "shared" with another user, and that directory is synced each time either one of you updates the files.  So, for example, you could share a directory with family members and each one upload photos from a family reunion, etc.  That way everyone has access to the photos, preventing them from being lost due to hard drive failure, etc.


If you recommend the service to others, and they sign up, Dropbox will give you additional storage space as well.  


Right now I am sharing files with a researcher of the Salamonia, Jay County, Indiana.  I've been copying some of my obituary and tombstone photo files into my Dropbox folder to share with her.