Snap Fish!!!

I am in love with snapfish, I just cant say it enough.. By the time I take my photos, and upload them to snapfish, pay a small amount, nothing compared to Target, or even costco.. and put my order thru, I have my photos back in my hand and ready to scrapbook. They have some wonderful projects as well, and I am getting ready to start my Christmas gift list and some of them will be through Snapfish.

On average before snapfish I paid .30 cents for a photo, usually because I didnt want to have to make two trips to the store, one to put in my order and two, to pick them up. Usually I would pay the extra money and do instant photos.

Now with snapfish, holy cow, I just load them up, select the ones I want printed, pay, poof, within like 4 days I have my photos. And they are delivered to my mailbox. We are a one car family, so this is totally convenient for us.

Thank you snapfish, I know there are other competitors out there, but none with the prices like snapfish, but more importantly, the extra projects. Thank you!!!

Genealogy Groups..

Starting a Genealogy group is something that is very common, and also very helpful. The people in your group can be friends or they can be people you have met at school while taking a class, or while working.

My girlfriends and I have started a group and sunday is our first get together. I have all the information that I want to take along with me.

A group setting can be so much fun, but also informative. Usually there is someone in the group that has far more insight into a certain area. Then there is a newbie, but has ideas of their own. Everyone brings something to the table, and then more information can be collected by just a few ideas from the table.

Civilian Personnel Records Center

Civilian Personnel Records Center

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Resources for Genealogists and Family Historians

Resources for Genealogists and Family Historians

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Google Reader

The more I have been working online, and using blogspot, blogger.com or Google. I have seen so many new things. Google Reader is wonderful, especially if you follow a lot of blogs, like I do. You can quickly skim thru your blogs, read the ones that you really want to. Or mark as read for others.. save them, delete them, instead of having to go to every single blog.

Where to Start..

When you are seeking your family's tree, how I start is at the end. Yes it sounds morbid, but they cant go anywhere after they are buried. So start with the cemetery. It will give you more than likely a birth date and a death date, and some markers have been fixed with sentiments like wonderful father, husband, uncle etc, that will give you the clue that he had a family. Take the dates that you have and work through the records, you can get a death certificate, birth certificate, and marriage certificate. They will cost anywhere from $10 to $20 dollars, depending on your city.

I started loading all of my family tree information onto Ancestry.com, helps keep it in one place, and well because its free to build a tree, make sure you set it to private, because anyone can copy your photos and take credit for them, and well, im all about sharing but as long as they ask for it, and not take it.

There are many websites that will offer help, most you have to pay, but some are free, and that helps a lot. So many records are being uploaded daily in hopes that others may need, find, discover their families history. Some generations dont go very far, not for lack of looking but for the sheer fact that records weren't kept, or were destroyed. And some generations can go as far as you can find. One of my lines is now up to its 19th generation, they were a very popular family in the 1500's and they kept going on their records as far back as 1100 A.D.

Playing Catch Up

I have been away for a while.. my son has been sick lately and that is where my focus has been. But today he is doing much better so here I am. I am not sure if i mentioned this before but I recently bought into Ancestry.com and wow, the load of information is almost overwhelming. I have been doing one family a night and trying to go as far back as I can and get as much information as I can before moving on, and its easy to do so.

Some girlfriends and I are forming a genealogy group to help the newbies and to refresh the more experienced. I am very excited about this, not only to help each other but to get together with friends.

Another thing to mention is back up your files and then put it on a flash drive and stick it in a safety deposit box. I have been scanning all of our papers incase something crucial happens later in life. Got to be able to prove your tree if someone calls you on something.