Recent Posts Tagged With 'strange or funny'

• Megan\'s List

  Posted on Monday December 21st, 2009 at 19:10 in names, online resources, census records, strange or funny

  Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak has written Name Game: Celebrities Have Nothing on the Rest of Us on the Huffington Post blog. Yes - it has ... funny names from the census.For instance - Prince Charming, Toothless Widow, Sacred Heart and Mustard Mustard. ...

• 12 Days of a Genealogy Christmas

  Posted on Sunday December 20th, 2009 at 14:59 in holidays, my genealogy research, strange or funny

  A genealogy oriented version of the Twelve Days of Christmas is available on the Internet - see Kimberly Powell's site at http://genealogy.about.com/library/blchristmas-twelve.htm.I decided I would do my own based on using computer genealogy, my own ...

• Christmas Names in the Census Records

  Posted on Friday December 18th, 2009 at 17:11 in holidays, census records, strange or funny

  Here's an oldie but a goodie for my devoted readers --I was devastated when the post came out several years ago about the Christmas characters that Dan Lynch posted on his web site, http://www.1930census.com/santa_clause.php. I had worked on most of ...

• Santa Claus in the Census?

  Posted on Monday December 7th, 2009 at 17:09 in holidays, online resources, strange or funny, elusive ancestors

  A person named "Santa Clause" (born April 1887 in MO) was the son of William Clause (born Feb 1857 in MO) and Henrietta Clause (born May 1861 in MO) in the 1900 census, with siblings Emma B. Clause (born Jan 1881 in MO), William E. Clause (born Nov 1...

• Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Famous Look-Alikes

  Posted on Saturday November 28th, 2009 at 22:39 in photographs, strange or funny, sngf

  It's Saturday Night again - are you ready for some Genealogy Fun?Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to find which celebrities that have the same facial features that you (or someone else you choose) have. Here are the directions:1) Go t...

• ProGen Group Christmas Elf Dance

  Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 14:43 in holidays, strange or funny

  The fearless, and creative, leader of my ProGen Study Group (Sheri Fenley) has created another little video using the fine services of JibJab - see the ProGen group members dance their way to fame and fortune here.Did I hear you say "don't give up yo...

• Funny and creative coffins

  Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 12:43 in strange or funny, genealogy fun

  After I posted about the Creative Coffins website the other day, I wondered if there were more examples on the Internet. I found the Curious, Funny Photos/Pictures blog had a recent post titled Funny Coffins with many, um, interesting photos. Enj...

• Black Friday Sale at JMK Gifts!

  Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 11:53 in strange or funny, genealogy industry

  Jimmy Kavanagh at JMK Gifts emailed me with news of their Black Friday special - today only - good discounts on JMK Gifts products. The discounts include:* $8 OFF Binders* 30% OFF Mousepads* 40% OFF Calendars* $4 OFF T-Shirts* $3 OFF Mugs* 55% OFF Ca...

• Creative Coffins

  Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 11:11 in strange or funny, cemetery records, graveyard rabbits

  Do you want to "go out" in high style, make an impression on the cemetery gravediggers, and maybe save your family history?Check out the unique coffin designs at Creative Coffins - http://www.creativecoffins.com/. Here is the website's home page:You ...

• Hallowe\'en Names

  Posted on Saturday October 31st, 2009 at 09:47 in holidays, surnames, strange or funny

  There are a number of families in the Rootsweb WorldConnect database at http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi that have surnames connected to Hallowe'en. For instance:1) The GHOST surname - there are 448 entries, including the descendants of Philip ...

• The ProGen Group Monster Mash

  Posted on Friday October 16th, 2009 at 10:13 in strange or funny, genealogy video, genealogy fun

  Sheri Fenley has way too much time on her hands, or she is really good at creating videos, or she just likes to have a lot of fun. Probably all of the above!Sheri is the "leader" of our small Group studying the Professional Genealogy book. She create...

• Fortune Cookie Advertising

  Posted on Monday October 12th, 2009 at 21:21 in footnote.com, strange or funny

  Footnote.com has hit on a unique (at least to me) way to advertise some of their genealogy databases.Go to Unfortunate Cookie (http://unfortunatecookie.footnote.com/) and see what I mean. Here are some screen shots:1) The home page --2) Clicking on t...

• LOL- the Laziest Man in Genealogy?

  Posted on Saturday October 10th, 2009 at 00:14 in genealogy blogs, strange or funny

  My erstwhile genea-friend, The Genealogue (Chris Dunham), has posted "The Laziest Man in Genealogy" (with not even a question mark!) saying:"I must say I'm disappointed that Randy Seaver refuses to update Ancestry.com's 1930 U.S. census index to incl...

• The Genea-Monster Mash

  Posted on Wednesday October 7th, 2009 at 19:08 in genealogy blogs, strange or funny

  Someone has way too much time on their hands, and is wonderfully creative!Check out this seasonal video starring, well, see if you can guess who!The Genea-Monster Mash!!Enjoy! UPDATED 5 p.m. OK, now we know who did it... I'm surprised that she didn...

• The Geneaholic\'s New Workstation

  Posted on Wednesday October 7th, 2009 at 12:30 in strange or funny, genealogy fun

  For the Geneaholic who has no time for regular life functions...Notice the rollers on the workstation? Cool, eh? Now where can I put all of my genealogy books and files that are not on my computer hard drive yet? ...