Chicken Scratchings

Bye to October, hello Christmas?

At the beginning of 2022, I asked the question: What will you do? I think about that all the time. What will I do this year? Every time I got frustrated over a situation,...

Good gets better!

Wow! A lot has happened in a few months!? My Rootstech class was viewed over 120 times on Youtube here I taught a class on the Get Involved app for a local group I...

Choose Connection RT2022

What a great theme for Rootstech this year! And have you heard the song written by Jonathan King? It really is a choice- Every hour of every day to choose to connect. To keep...

But I don’t know

I hear this phrase so often that I decided to see if RootsTech was intererested in a class on it. Aside from a staff training and one recorded meeting, I haven’t officially taught anything!...

World boundary changes

Check out Gapminder’s full video on all the boundary changes overtime. It is insane! The documents of the history and abbreviations used in the timelapse video can be found here and in the information...

Unique family trees

Just as every chick and tree are different, so are each of our family trees. And for a lot of different reasons. Sometimes the unsolvable, really isn’t solvable and sometimes it takes more time,...

Contrary proof: Jacobsons

Oral history from Anders Anton Jacobson himself indicates he arrived in America through Toronto, Canada. But ship records I found show Anders, and his wife Matilda and daughter Jenny depart in 1866 and have...

Long lost Montana family

John Talmage has been lost to his family since 1894. My husband really wanted to try to find him. We are definitely not the first to try, but I was excited that he was...

FAQ- Alone we do so little

“Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much” I love the quote by Helen Keller. Many hands make light-er work. The work may still be a giant undertaking, but can...

Birds Eye View: Time, Skill, Money

  If you were looking or flying over your chicken coop, the longer you look, the more repairs, upkeep, enhancements, dreams you could add to improve your situation. Time, skill and money may be...