I just don't know what to say. I had been wanting to do more on the internet with genealogy and my many other interests. I joined a Study Group for 'Tracing Immigrant Origins' with Dear Myrtle Your Friend in Genealogy DearMYRTLE's Genealogy Community.
This has certainly kept me busy and I am learning so much. I watch many of the You Tube videos that go along with this community and others associated with Google+. Getting better at using the tools available on Google like Google Docs & Google Sheets along with learning and using the Cloud in Google Drive. Considering I learned typing on a manual typewriter and have learned computer basics hands on as well as observing  others and using any means available -photocopies, pictures, manuals, study guides, scanners.  That and reaching out to others to help me along the way. So many it is hard to know who and where to begin.
I shall begin to say I am enormously thankful for the Church of the Later Day Saints and their tireless efforts in building such a tremendous wealth of information and records that myself any others use for our genealogical research of our vast families. I cannot recount the number of times I found a tidbit of information of a family member I was researching. I have entered a lot of information in files that I have long since lost in programs that were lost with the various Personal Computers in the past.  Hopefully this Blog will help me to preserve some of the vast information I have come across for the future even if I don't use the same model of input I am now using and that I can access from any entry point available, and others as well seeming as how we are global these days with internet access.
Brings me to the power of learning and how Public Libraries as well as Academic Libraries have added to my knowledge and searching capabilities. I have loved libraries ever since I was a small child and continue to this very day.  I could expound upon the unlimited examples of how and why I love them but at this juncture in time chose to say that I am a firm believer in supporting libraries in whatever way and means possible!
To be continued because I have much more that I want to express. Thanks!


Johnstown Flood
 Praise be to those who lost loved ones to floods, hurricanes, tornados, and the many disasters that occur - when I once sought help at a local Family History Center a very pleasant lady assisted me. I of course asked a thousand questions and discovered she had researched her family lineage and there was no one else to search for and they were wiped out on the Johnstown Flood 

I just looked it up, dam burst in Pennsylvania 1889. It dawned on me that it happened a hundred years ago. She had an enthusiasm for researching and suggestions. At least I had tracks and crumbs left by my ancestors. Records galore when you think about it birth, marriage, death. And of course using locations where they lived. She didn’t even have cemeteries to look for clues. 

I was new to researching and didn’t understand that documenting and citations were needed for genealogy and family research.