Tech Tuesday: Happy New Year and Unlimited Cloud Storage

I want to wish everyone a very Happy New Year.  I hope 2013 brings everyone closer to their genealogical goals! One of the most important goals on my list for 2013 is organization and data security.  Paper files are not an issue for me.  I never had many to begin with...

Happy Holidays!

My grandparent’s first Christmas tree in 1947. (Yes, the tree stand is a wrapped suitcase!!) Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday and a Happy New Year!!...

Matrilineal Monday: Grandmothers

This is one of my favorite family photos.  One of my cousins included the picture in a batch of old family photos she scanned. The picture is of my paternal great-grandmother, Mary Cantrell Morgan DeHaven, and my grandmother, Mildred Irene DeHaven Kline.  My...

Wordless Wednesday: A Man and His Horse

This is a photograph of my maternal great grand uncle, Rosco Roy Hosaflook (b. Feb. 16, 1886, d. Sept. 9, 1945) and his horse Lox.  This photo was probably taken around 1910, in Linville, Rockingham County,...