Sept 2008.

Wow!

Has it really been that long?

A lot has happened, since then, leading to my stopping my research, and visits to this site, among others.

I made a couple of discoveries, but they have sat unexplored in my Ancestry.com since the fall.

In May I revived myself to begin the process of organizing my files in preperation for a return to the fray.

GeneaBlogging on my Musings Blog has become more frequent.

I have joined some Genealogy Societies.

I have begun engaging fellow Genealogists on Facebook, and Twitter.

I have been invited to join a Dougherty Genealogy Community on MyFamily.com.

I will be attending my 1st Genealogy Convention, in Burbank at the end of this month.

Iwill be returning, slowly, to this wonderful site, and Community, a place that I am so glad is still here a year after its birth!

Top results for Google Search: What is a GEDCOM?

GEDCOM (an acronym for GEnealogical Data COMmunication), is the standard for exchanging data from one genealogy program to another.

See:

ROOTSWEB

ANCESTRY

CYNDI'S LIST

EASTMAN'S

GENEALOGY.COM

GENEALOGY.ABOUT.COM

TURNING A GEDCOM INTO A WEBPAGE

If you don't know about Cyndi's List, or Eastman's, then you are in for a treat.

I can't stress enough that you should Bookmark BOTH forthwith. ;-D

***UPDATE - 8/18/08***

This GEDCOM Stuff inspired me to create a song, hee, hee! ;-D

***END UPDATE***

After a week of adding more info into my program, making live people info private, and planning for the big event, I have some fine tuning to make, then will make my 1st Gedcom, this evening.

Making a Descendant Report led to my finding some things that need to be corrected so that will take some time this afternoon. ;-D

The last week I've been adding info to my Genealogy program, and doing research on Ancestry.

Most of the info entered was from an old Genealogy report sent me by another Wells Researcher, in 2001.

Until my Uncles DNA Test Results came in, last month, I was not able to claim this info, so let it sit unread.

Over the last few days, other searches, on Ancestry, led me to question certain assumptions about 1 woman, and led to me to discover 2 other women I'd long been searching for, leading to new revelations about them in the process.

Now I have to figure out how to make a GedCom (My program is a recently bought Legacy 7), to submit to the Wells Project.

I'm tired.

It saddens me to see beautiful, fascinating, and even historic, photos in Antique Stores, and Thrift Shops.

The same goes for Family Bibles, and related items with family info in them.

As I get back into my genealogy, and see all the wonderful photos that people are sharing here ( I will finally be getting to adding some more of my own!) I wonder what would cause a person to abandon such family treasures?

Yesterday I visited an Antique Store, in Huntington Beach, CA., and was looking at some cheaply priced, very old postcard size photos, some taken by old photo studios who have their names, and address on the front or back of the picture.

None of the pics I saw had personal info about the person in the photo, but the clerk told me something that gives me hope, and validated a notion I was entertaining.

A Lady frequently comes in and buy cards with the goal of uniting them with some Genealogy Researcher looking for the people photographed.

In the case of those images with company/photographer names only she is often able to track down info about the image, and who was photographed!

In one corner of this same store, hidden behind some other large, framed, photos, was a large, wonderful, framed photo, of a  Hannibal MO., high shool sports team from the first half of the 20th century.

The photo named the school, and every player on the team that appears in the photo!

The item sells for $42.

Why wasn't it donated to the High School?

Why has no-one tried to find descendants of the people in the image, who might love to have the thing,  or copies of it, and would cherish the image as the lovely family heirloom it deserves to be?