Category: Uncategorized

(+) Why We All Need to Ignore Our Old Ideas about Filing Systems

The following is a Plus Edition article written by and copyright by Dick Eastman. Note: This article contains personal opinions. I am fortunate that I get to travel a lot and I talk with genealogists most everywhere I go. One question I am often asked is, “How should I organize my genealogy notes in the …

Continue reading

Lightning Strike

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 …

Continue reading

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 …

Continue reading