http://genealogical.today.com A hobby or an obsession? Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:01:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, my daily posting is...not. Between the problems I'm having with my brand new computer and homeschooling my son (not to mention work, household chores, the garden, and keeping up with family), I have not had time to post. That's not to say that this blog is completely off my ... http://genealogical.today.com/2009/03/23/oy/ Obie Hawks, Oct. 22, 1871, April 10, 1916 I was looking through my pictures of tombstones today when I ran across this one I took for a fellow researcher several years ago. Obie Hawks was buried in the Grey Hill Cemetery, which is located near downtown Commerce, Jackson County, Georgia. Apparently, ... http://genealogical.today.com/2009/03/17/tombstone-tuesday-obie-hawks-1871-1916/ A few years ago, I was visiting the graves of my Grandfather Ledford's first wife and third child at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church Cemetery in Macon County, North Carolina. The cemetery is a large one, old and beautiful and rather peaceful in spite of its location in the midst of ... http://genealogical.today.com/2009/03/10/tombstone-tuesday-new-church-building-old-cemetery/ Genealogy is, for some reason I have yet to fathom, a pastime filled with forms. There are forms for abstracting particular records, forms for recording families, another for recording pedigrees. There are correspondence logs and census forms and timeline sheets and on and on and on until our files and ... http://genealogical.today.com/2009/03/09/cornerstone-organization-research-logs/ I was in the library in Franklin, NC the other day and happened to run across a book in their "new books" section called The Art of the Family Tree: Creative Family History Projects Using Paper Art, Fabric and Collage by Jenn Mason. I picked it up, thinking it was ... http://genealogical.today.com/2009/03/08/the-art-of-the-family-tree/ On Tuesday night, my sister's team won during their second round of play at the state tournaments. They are now in the Elite 8, the top eight teams in the state for their division (AA). They play again on Saturday night in Rome. Yes, I do actually have another genealogical ... http://genealogical.today.com/2009/03/05/searching-multiple-locations-for-information-on-a-single-event-part-1/ My blog plans for this week have gone far astray. I'm not sure how (although it might have something to do with three unplanned out-of-town trips in one week), only that I fully intended to post Tombstone Tuesday and Wordful Wednesday posts on those two days this week, but it ... http://genealogical.today.com/2009/03/04/current-reading-list/ After searching through early Rabun County, Georgia records, and thinking through the problem of how to tackle my Little Tennessee River Valley Origins Project (LTRV), I've decided to narrow the focus to a couple of families at a time. I'm starting with Amos Curtis, with the goal of trying to ... http://genealogical.today.com/2009/03/02/narrowing-it-down/ Yesterday, my son and I travelled with my brother and a family friend to Rome, Georgia to cheer our local varsity girl's basketball team on in their first appearance at a state tournament since my sister began coaching the team three years ago. Our girls won, 55 - 54, against ... http://genealogical.today.com/2009/02/28/a-win-at-state/ I happened upon the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System (CWSS) a few years ago while compiling indices of those who enlisted in the Confederate States Army (CSA) in Rabun County, Georgia or Macon County, North Carolina. The CWSS is an index of those who fought in the War Between ... http://genealogical.today.com/2009/02/26/civil-war-soldiers-and-sailors-system/