Preserving your Family History Part Two

Label the pictures in the Photo Album. I inherited a photo album filled with pictures of my grandparents when they were young. There are lots of pictures of what might be their aunts, uncles, siblings, parents and even grandparents. I even have a photo so old it is on tin. I have a photo of a man in a Civil War uniform of the Union Army only I don’t know how he is. I am scanning all these photos to preserve but will not be able to identify over half of those in the pictures. Don’t let future generations lose out on this valuable info.

Having some simple index of who is who in each photo album will insure maintaining that person’s identity. When you pass away someday your children or grandchildren will not know that they are looking at you at 6 years old sitting on Uncle John’s lap. If you are not willing to do so you should take the photos with you in the coffin because the memory of those who have goon before you is lost forever.

Linking Tag

Joy sent me this tag.

Rules: Cut and paste the following starting here. I have randomly selected 5 of you below to be tagged and I hope that you will similarly publish this post in your blog. You will have to tag 5 other bloggers and just keep adding on to the list. (Do not replace, just keep on adding! Yes we hope it will be a long list!) It’s real easy! Tag others and see your Technorati Authority increase exponentially! The benefits of Viral Linking:- One of the fastest ways to see your technorati authority explode!- Increase your Google PageRank fast- Attract large volume of new traffic to your site- Build your community- Make new friends!

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Preserving your Family History - Part One

Image from WikipediaOne of my favorite hobbies is genealogy or the history of my family. There is so much to learn from digging into your families past. Joy thinks I’m crazy but to me it is fascinating. Unfortunately I waited till both my parents as well as grandparents had passed away. This of course made things more difficult. Shortly after my Mom died by aunt her sister developed Alzheimer’s and could even remember her grandmother’s maiden name. On my father’s side my father’s sister was way off in left field on what she thought the family history was.

Even if you are not into family history per say please realize that most likely someone in your family will start searching their family roots. It could be one of you children or grandchildren, it could be a niece or nephew or even yourself ten years from now. They may even have to do this for a school project someday. Don’t be the disappointing relative who is ignorant of your family background.

We all take pictures, video and keep keepsakes to preserve our memories. But we do a poor job of keeping those memories alive for the next generation. Often our memories die with us simply because we never thought of organizing things in away that will allow our children or great grandchildren to know what these symbols of our memories mean. In the next couple of posts I will discuss a few simple things that we can all do properly preserve the family history.

Happy Easter

This is a video from one of my favorite Christian bands called Petra. This is perfect for the holiday.
Found this a a new friend. A saxy girl

Court’s Internet Marketing School

Just wanted to tell everyone blogging about a great blog I just happened upon. This blog has tons of useful information about what to do to boost your page rank, boost your traffic and how to make your sight profitable. They sight is called Court’s Internet Marketing School. I have spent hours on this blog pen and paper in hand taking notes and creating to do lists. This blog is a must read. So hop on over to her site today and tell her Roger at Married with Children sent you.

The "I" Tag

Rojoy sent me this tag.

I AM… a Father and a Husband
I WANT…. To make my family and God happy.
I HAVE.. 2 adorable kids and a loving wife.
I WISH…. to have a lot of money.
I HATE… annoying and loud people.
I FEAR… to die young and leave my family alone.
I SEARCH… family history for my family tree.
I WONDER… why I am poor, when I have met so many dumb people with money.
I REGRET… that I wasted my inheritance on a failed real estate career.
I LOVE…. my wife, my kids, my family and friends and most of all my God..
I ALWAYS… Feel Tired.
I AM NOT… rich when it comes to wealth but I am rich at heart.
I DANCE… ballroom and anything as long as the music sounds great.
I SING… but not very good my mother was a runner up for the voice of Snow White and I am an American Idol horrid audition.
I CRY… while watching sad movies.
I WRITE… anything and post it to my blog.
I WON….. The best wife in the whole world, but I would love to add the lottery to that please..
I AM CONFUSED… How my wife got such a high page rank so fast.
I NEED… to do more with my blog
I SHOULD… buy a lottery ticket so I can win the lottery LOL.
THE LAST THOUGHT BEFORE GO TO SLEEP…. say my prayers and thank God for the day.



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Computer Issues

Image from WikipediaSorry for no updates recently but I have been having a month of Mondays if you know what I mean. Because my wife Joy had the new of the two computers we switched off so I could play some of my new games I got at Christmas. After we switched off computers so I wouldn’t have to spend money upgrading mine.

Then I got the virus from hell that I fought with for days and lost the battle. I ended up formatting my hard drive and reinstalling all the software. A day or two latter Joy started having issues with my old computer. So since she is making money blogging and to this point I am not we switched computers again.

She was happy to have her computer back and I was back to square one. The stupid computer was not registering that it even had a hard drive. After so computer surgery and a few dozen choice words from me it finally registered the existence of the hard drive that once again was reformatted. Once again I have had to go and reinstall all the software all over again.

So if I haven’t responded to your shouts or posted anything new or visited your blog recently please forgive me and blame the “xxx xxxx” computer not me.

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