January 15, 2021 Unlike on the eastern plains of Colorado, severe thunderstorms are rare in Northern Utah, where I grew up. That was a good thing because any time an electrical storm threatened, my mother gathered us kids, unplugged all electrical appliances and dragged us all down to the basement. As we cowered in the …
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Green Dishes and Fruit Salad
January 8, 2021 Does your family have special recipes passed down from generation to generation? Mine does, and my mother’s old recipe file has turned out to be a record of her life as a wife and mother who cooked nearly every meal her family ate. That old recipe box that so many of us …
Ancestry Sued over Posting Yearbooks Online
January 1, 2021 A little over a year ago Ancestry debuted their enhanced yearbook collection featuring yearbooks from middle schools, junior high schools, high schools and colleges from all over the United States. Many of us in the genealogical community wrote columns and articles about the new feature and promoted it as a fun new …