Tag: Carol Stetser

Online Family Trees: A Good Starting Point

January 19, 2024 Whenever I’m starting a new family history project, I begin my research with a peek at one or more of the big online family trees. By checking Family Search Family Tree and Ancestry’s Family Trees (these are just a couple that I use, there are many others), I can quickly tell how …

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Grandma’s Chuckcockers

January 12, 2024 My paternal grandmother was from Norway. Some of my earliest memories are about her Scandinavian cooking. There were, of course, her famous Christmas cookies and the infamous fiskebollers which were pasty white fishballs that tasted as horrible as they looked.   Then there were the chuckcockers that, until recently, I hadn’t even …

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Genealogy Resolutions and Photos

January 5, 2024 It’s the first of the year, and many people are making New Year’s Resolutions. Genealogists are no exception; almost all of us have goals we’d like to accomplish. Identifying some of those goals and putting them in the form of a resolution may help spur us into taking concrete steps toward achieving …

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