This week, 160 years ago, my 4g grandmother Almira C. Barber's earliest appearance in Michigan. #ancestry#genealogy#historywww.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3... : accessed 29 February 2024) > images 38-39 of 812.

Back up? All of my stuff just lives on Apple’s servers. The entire Midwest could burn and all my work would be OK.

I could have used this just recently.

One of the things I like about research is that it could really mean any record set. A client recently hired me to photograph a group of papers from Augustus B. Woodward, first Chief Justice of the Michigan Territory. It turns out he has beautiful handwriting. #history#genealogy#ancestry

Spent the last couple of days marketing a presentation on family tree research in newspapers. It's like the Venn overlap of my passion for genealogy and a career in journalism. #genealogy#ancestry#history

I shared an elevator with a guy in New York. When I told him I do freelance writing and editing, his response was, “Cool. How does that work? Does it involve a lot of cocaine?” Um … what??!!

Of course, not every client lead leads to work, but I still get a little spark of joy whenever I get an inquiry — particularly a really interesting sounding one. #ancestry#genealogy

#OTD#ancestry#genealogy “ALLEGED TIRE THIEVES ARRESTED,” Detroit [Michigan] Times Extra, 19 Sept. 1919, p. 1, col. 7.

The advice I’ve gotten mostly centers on getting the citations consistent. #genhour

The process has actually been amazing. I research, outline, write, fill in gaps (and repeat as necessary). I have the document work and KDP projects printed for line editing, so pretty far along with those. #genhour