Beth's Blog

I’m not much of a writer, so you’ll have to excuse any typos and grammatical errors. I just started this blog as a place to move all of my information in various websites into one place. I’m really liking the blog format with interaction in the comments sections rather than websites where I’m so concerned about the look and design that it takes away from the information that I wanted to put there in the first place. I end up re-doing the work so many times that I get burned out and just give up on it for a while. Personal e-mails about genealogy are okay but I find that I’m repeating the same answers to the same questions or forwarding someone else’s responses over and over. I would rather that we respond through the comments sections so that will hopefully eliminate that problem.

I have been doing family history (genealogy) actively since 1997. I word it as “Family History” rather than genealogy because I want more than just names and dates. My goal is to find as much documentation, pictures, family stories, etc. as possible and try to put together as much of a biography as I possibly can about each person that I research. It’s a labor of love and something that I’m very happy to share with my family. We knew almost nothing of our heritage, on either side, and now with the click of a button we can see pictures, stories, documents…our history. It is my gift to my family and something I hope that will gain the interest in at least one of my nieces/nephews/cousins who will want to carry on the pursuit.

This blog allows contributors. At this point I haven’t checked into exactly what that entails. I do welcome contributions and if you’d like to add something please let me know and I’ll try to arrange it to where you can add the information yourself if you’d like. If not, I will be happy to do it. I do insist on documented sources before I add anything as fact. If you have a story to share that’s both wonderful and welcomed. However, it must and will be stated that it’s a family story and not presented as facts. I’m trying to keep the information gathered here as correct as possible.