Grandma Vivian Swanstrom’s best friend from nursing school, and maybe earlier, was Mabel Eberle. It was Mabel who went on the day trip to Rawlins on the day Grandma and Grandpa ended up getting married. Over the years, in the back of my mind, I always kind of wondered what happened to Mabel. I thought…
Author: Justin Durand
Use Your Phone for Negatives
From Janet Maydem at Family History Daily: Wouldn’t it be nice to see what’s really on all those old family photo negatives or slides you’ve been carefully collecting and storing? If so, you might be ready to try out a negative scanner app (also known as a film scanner app). These free apps are designed…
Hard On Equipment
I participate in a genealogy community where I often end up working with this woman EH. She’s not a particularly good genealogist. In fact, she’s quite awful. Her confidence in her own abilities far exceeds anything rational, but that doesn’t stop her from having an opinion about anything and everything. Everyone loves her, though. She’s…
Pete Catches
Pete Catches was my dad’s “blood brother” (hunka). More Information 10 Sacred Native American Places (Feb 27, 2017), at Youtube.com, visited Aug. 8, 2019. From the Grand Canyon, to the little known eerie Black Hills, these are 10 Sacred Native American Places ! Art In Motion presents Lakota Medicine Man Pete Catches: “Walks With Fire”…
Findagrave needs some empathy
A few days ago I wrote about how Findagrave had taken credit away from me, even though I added some close family graves first. Instead, they reversed their own algorithm in order to give credit to one of those people who compete with each other to see who can add the most memorials. A stranger….