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It’s Mega Swagbucks Friday!
Have you been eyeing that genealogy book on Amazon or Barnes & Noble? Do you like to have a little extra in the PayPal account? Then let me introduce my method of earning free gift cards to keep me in the Nook Books. Meet Swag Bucks. Swag Bucks is a search engine that rewards you. When you sign up for a free Swag Bucks account and start using their search engine you win random Swag Bucks rewards. And on Friday, you can earn Mega Swag Bucks which are random awards of 100-1000 SB. Just so you know, a $5 gift card to Amazon is 450 Swag Bucks. I have been using Swag Bucks for a few years. I have certain blogs and news sites that I visit everyday and I use … Read entire article »
Filed under: Miscellaneous
What I am reading – Take Back Your Life: Using MS Outlook to Get Organized and Stay Organized
I have been reading an organizing book this month. I need some ideas to go paperless even more and wanted to learn how to use what I already have (Office with Outlook 2007 soon to be udgraded to 2010) more efficiently. So, while surfing my library site I found this book: Take Back Your Life: Using MS Outlook to Get Organized and Stay Organized by Sally McGhee. When this book was written, Outlook was then in the 2003 iteration, however, the concepts she uses are easily adaptable to my 2007 version. She has an updated version for Outlook 2007, but I went with what our library had, and will check out the other book later. This book has some very useful ideas that I have already started to incorporate into my everyday. … Read entire article »
Filed under: 2012 goals, books, organization
Mapping Monday – William Brierly to William Brierley, son
Here is the crux of my Briley/Brierly problem… Just how many William Brierly’s in a row am I related too? I am thinking 3, and upon further inspection, seem to find evidence supporting it. I only just realized that William Brierly, the father in this deed, has a different mark than his son. In this case, they do not use an X (like so many other of my ancestors). The older William uses a stylized W and the younger one flips it over. I have not really started the cataloging of these deeds. It is one of my long term projects to get started on sometime this spring when our renovation is finished. Here is my transcription of the deed (I tried not to edit it too much): Pitt County, NC Deed Book … Read entire article »
Filed under: 2012 goals, Ancestor, Deeds
Abundant Genealogy – wk 4
Prompt: Free Offline Genealogy Tools: For which free offline genealogy tools are you most grateful? How did you find this tool and how has it benefitted your genealogy? Describe to others how to access this tool and spread the genealogy love. My favorite offline tool for genealogy would have to be local libraries. Not just your county’s public library, but local college, historical society, and possibly state resources depending upon where you live. I have been visiting our local public library branch recently and checked out just their genealogy section (929 in the Dewey Decimal system). They not only had older community histories, I came across a wonderful book from the North Carolina Daughters of the American Revolution published in the 1920′s. I got 2 leads on a known ancestor and … Read entire article »
Filed under: Abundant Genealogy, Miscellaneous
Updating the Surname page on Saturday
I am updating the surname page. It includes the surnames of my husband’s grandparents. We have a much tougher time with research for him. Both of his parents immigrated from the British Isles. His mother from England, and his father from the Republic of Ireland via England. I know very little of English or Irish research but am willing to learn slowly. Thanks for taking the time to check it out. … Read entire article »
Filed under: English research, Irish research, Miscellaneous, Surname Saturday
Rhonie Futerial Strickland (1896-1972)
Rhonie Futerial Strickland was born August 28, 1896 in Sampson County, NC. His father was John Elbert Strickland and his mother was Cherry Almira Honeycutt. Rhonie is listed with his parents in the 1900 census at age 4 living in Herring, Sampson County, North Carolina. He has 7 siblings. He married Annie Retha Baker (b. September 3, 1902) on August 26, 1915 in Pitt County, North Carolina. They had 5 children. The 1930 census has them listed as living in Portsmouth, VA. Rhonie Futerial died on April 15, 1972 in Frostproof, Polk County, FL. He had remarried after Annie died to Marie. I have little information on Marie. Family Tree information for Rhonie F. Strickland can be found here: … Read entire article »
Tech Tuesday – Rootspersona WordPress Plugin
rootsPersona Plugin for WordPress For Tech Tuesday, I am going to review a wonderful family tree and report generator for wordpress. It is called Rootspersona, and I love it. I had been looking for an easy to use GEDCOM to family tree generator. The ease of use of this one makes it great. After you install the plugin, you will find Rootspersona on both the Tools and Settings buttons in the Dashboard. The Tools menu for Rootspersona is the interface at which you upload your GEDCOM, add uploaded persons, upload missing evidence pages, and so on. It is what runs in the background of the program. The Settings menu is where you go to set up privacy settings and customize the generated report styles. When you visit the “home” page for rootspersona, they have … Read entire article »
Filed under: Miscellaneous, Tech Tuesday
Abundant Genealogy – wk3
Prompt: Which free online genealogy tools are you most thankful for? How has it helped your family history experience? The Family Search site from the LDS is a great online tool, that is free, and they now offer the images also. However, I do not think I am most thankful for that. I think what I am most thankful is the myriad of information on everything that I get from fellow researchers via their blogs, twitter, and facebook. Everything from organizational ideas to upcoming events, you can find it all. I have encountered researchers who have overcome some of the same “brick walls” I find myself facing. I can learn from their experience. I see people as organizationally challenged as I am, and I see how they deal with it. Hey, wasn’t there … Read entire article »
Filed under: Abundant Genealogy, Miscellaneous
Surname Saturday – Briley
You can tell from the name of my blog, BrileyGenealogy, that I focus on the surname Briley. Briley is my maiden name. My married name is McCaul. Briley, by the way, is not an Irish name. It is either English (from Briarly/Brierly) or Welsh. I have been researching the American Briley line (also found as Bryly, Brierly, Briarly, Byarly, and Brerley) since the early 1990′s. My Briley line (I call it the Southern line, which I will go into in a minute) came in through early colonial VA, eventually settled in North Carolina (Beaufort area, old Bath County and surrounding colonial areas). My line stayed in the general area in what is now Pitt County. One branch of this line, Abraham Briley, moved to Tennessee (Sumner county area) and they spawned … Read entire article »
Filed under: Ancestor, Surname Saturday
Getting ‘Round to Research
I was hoping I would have the time this week to get out and do some research at the Library of Virginia. However, middle school exams to be taken by a surly pre-teen and a house rennovation have intruded on my regular schedule and threw me off. I will get out to the LDS library to order a film tomorrow and maybe do some census research. I am trying to figure out a few relationships from the early 1900′s. Luckily, my digitizing projects have been proceeding nicely. I am grateful that I have pictures of all but one great-grandparent on my Briley side. I only have about 50 more pics in dad’s album. It will be fun to hand him back his album and a DVD of his pictures. … Read entire article »
Filed under: 2012 goals, NC, research
