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Wow! What a Day!
I left Fort Lauderdale at O-dark-30 (very early) this morning hoping to get back to north Florida before the storm. The weather was awful until I got up around Cape Canaveral, but by Daytona things w...
Feeding Frenzy
There’s a term used in the news/political blogosphere - Instalanche - that represents the huge spike in traffic a blogger will receive if Glenn Reynolds mentions/links to him from his Instapundi...
The story behind the logo
The photo used in the Family Matters masthead has a very special meaning. It’s a photo of my grandmother, Lois Link Barker, with her youngest child, Mary Randolph Barker. Mary was born May 7...
Ancestors Magazine
I spent a pleasant morning reading Ancestors Magazine over a cup of coffee at my local Barnes & Noble. For some reason I’ve never noticed this magazine before - probably because it was dis...
I Love Linux
I’m writing this post from my little EEE PC on a tiny table in my bedroom - the only room in the house with any furniture. As you can see in the photo, we are doing a little Home Improvement - ...
January Reading List
There’s lots of good reading this month to help get you through the cold, gray days of winter. Here’s a few things that have kept me entertained and informed: The Library of Congress Blo...
We’re Sick Without You
Dick Eastman announced yesterday that he had recently been diagnosed with diabetes and would be offline for a while as he recovers from the immediate issues this disease has created and learns to mana...
Carnivals a’Plenty
There are two special carnivals this week for your holiday entertainment! First, the latest Carnival of Genealogy offers a Carousel edition with lots of interesting posts. Greenman Tim at Walking th...
Community
Since I started writing Family Matters almost three years ago I’ve been blessed to meet many fascinating people and to help create a community with ties as strong as many face-to-face relationsh...
Is this any way to run an archive?
You haven’t heard much from me lately for several reasons - not the least of which is Jimmy Atkinson’s divine collection of digital archives at his Online Education Databases site. Normal...
What a Great Idea
Ethical Wills. This popped up in my newsreader today . . . An ethical will is a good-bye letter that sums up your life’s aims. You write this will in order to pass on your values instead of you...
Book Learning
Picking up on the thread Jessica began and Jasia carries further, my love of history started with books. We didn’t have television through our school years so each of us learned to love reading...
Thinking of Pat
THINKING OF PAT: Reading her beautiful tribute to her father, I only hope that these beautiful memories give her strength during this difficult time. My thoughts and prayers are with you now and I l...
Don’t Miss the Train
The Ancestry Insider has a series - Don’t Miss the Train - discussing customer service in the age of the networked customer. The first two parts are up and are spot on. While the overall genea...
Director’s Commentary
Eric Meyer, my hero in the web development world (my day job), has an interesting article on his blog that applies to all of us in the blog world. The first part is in many ways the hardest, because w...
Local Color - The Kickoff
While we Floridians are still focused on the tropics - September and October are the busiest storm months for us - the rest of the country is looking forward to football, autumn colors, hayrides and a...
It’s All Randy’s Fault
Last week I was wandering around in WeRelate getting to know it better and I did a search for “St. Augustine” to see what would pop up. I was hoping to find someone else researching the a...
More Naughty Than Nice
Becky, thank you for including me as a nominee for the Nice Matters award although if you saw the steam coming out my ears at the moment, you might want to reconsider. . . I am steaming mad about this...
The Online Conference
Craig, Kimberley and several others have discussed the advantages and disadvantages of conferences. I, too, would enjoy attending a conference now and then, but I’m the only one in the family w...