52 Weeks of Abundant Genealogy : Blogs

Week 1 - Blogs : Blogging is a great way for genealogists to share information with family members, potential cousins and each other.  For which blog are you most thankful?  Is it one of the earliest blogs you read, or a current one?  What is special about the blog and why should others read it?

Right now, one of the blogs that I'm most thankful for is James Tanner's Genealogy Star.  His blog wasn't one of the first that I followed, but I picked it up quite awhile ago, and have enjoyed reading his posts ever since.

The reason I chose James' blog is that his posts extolling genealogists to digitize their information and get out from under the paper mountain has really struck a chord with me.  In particular, I recommend these posts: Observations on Technology and Genealogy and The Paper vs. Computer Dispute.

Though I'm not good at making or keeping New Year's resolutions, if I do have one goal for the upcoming year it will be to digitize and share the documents I have - and eliminate the unnecessary retention of photocopies I've obtained from libraries.  In my lifetime, I've gone from one extreme to the other; from file cabinets full of files, to binders with sheet protectors protecting photocopies!  In the future, I want to eliminate clutter and only save paper documents only when they are truly originals.

I highly recommend you add Genealogy Star to your blog reading.

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52 Weeks of Abundant Genealogy by Amy Coffin is a series of weekly blogging prompts (one for each week of 2012) that invite genealogists and others to discuss resources in the genealogy community including websites, applications, libraries, archives, genealogical societies and more.  

On This Day : January 5

1626: Jacobina KIRN born in Egenhausen, Wurttemberg.  Jacobina was the daughter of Jacob KIRN and Barbara HAITZMAN.  She was my 9x great-grandmother.


1676: Elizabeth PIERCE born in Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.  Elizabeth was the daughter of Thomas PIERCE and Eliza ________.


1691: Judah HUTCHINSON married Mary BRIDGEMAN in Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts.  Judah was the son of Ralph HUTCHINSON and Alice ________ (BENNETT).


1692: Joseph CLARKE married Dorothy MAXSON.  Joseph was the son of Joseph CLARKE and Bethiah HUBBARD.  Dorothy was the daughter of Rev. John MAXSON and Mary MAXSON.


1707: Stephen PIERCE married Esther FLETCHER.  Stephen was the son of Stephen PIERCE and Tabitha PARKER.


1726: Goodeth MAXSON born.  Goodeth was the daughter of John MAXSON and Hannah MAXSON.


1731: Hannah HEATON married Beriah WARE.  Hannah was the daughter of Samuel HEATON and Susan HAWES.


1737: Thomas DAVIS married Bethia MAXSON in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island.  Thomas was the son of William DAVIS and Elizabeth PAVIOR.  Bethia was the daughter of Joseph MAXSON and Bethia MAXSON.


1762: Johann Paul GONDOLF born in Battenfeld, Germany.  Johann was the son of Johann Conrad GONDOLF and Anna Elisabetha ROSE.


1768: Jerusha HURLBUT born in Woodbury, Connecticut.  Jerusha was the daughter of Israel HURLBUT and Jerusha ________.


1798: Barbara BYERS born in Warrington Township, York County, Pennsylvania.  Barbara was the daughter of Abraham BYERS and Mary STICKEL.  She was my 4x great-grandmother.


1832: Beulah DEACON died.  Beulah was the daughter of Robert HAINES and Rachel VENICOMB.


1874: Sarah Elizabeth BOYER married John Henry PROCTOR in Warrick County, Indiana.  Sarah was the daughter of Christopher Columbus BOYER and Nancy Ann McCOOL.


1878: Jesse WRIGHT born in Madison County, Indiana.  Jesse was the son of Joseph W. WRIGHT and Rebecca Ann HEATON.


1902: Leslie GROENENDYKE died.  Leslie was the daughter of Frank GROENENDYKE and Lydia ROHLS.


1915: Theodore DAVIS died.  Theodore was the son of Stillman Coon DAVIS and Keziah DAVIS.


2010: Thomas B. PIERCE died.  Thomas was the son of Maurice J. PIERCE and Bonnie Bell WEBB.

Wordless Wednesday: Mother & Child

Ruby (Lambertson) Walsh and Mike, probably Elwood, Indiana