That gif just made my day. I’m going to have to show it to the son tomorrow. He’s in a Winnie the Pooh phase and he will have a fit.

Thanks for this. I know your pain and know it well. My son is two months shy of turning three, and he still has sleep problems. I have been sleep deprived for over three years, if you count my sleep problems […]

My first marriage took place in New Zealand to a citizen of that country while I was a resident there. Once we separated, we had to be separated for three years before we could even file for divorce, and it took […]

Great article. I’m not a vegan, but I am a vegetarian (and have been for almost a decade) and I get so.unbelievably.tired of having to explain my lifestyle/diet to people. I’m also a bit of a health nut, so if you […]

I would love to see Introduction to Genealogy offered as an elective in schools. Just an extracurricular thing. It’d be informative and fun!

I also wish, as an aside, that it was easier to research matriarchal […]

I would start with the closest living relatives you have with the same surname and trace them as far up/back as you can. You may find a link to the country that the ones in the book are from, or some information […]

All of that is fascinating! What an interesting family history you have! I am jealous.

I’ve noticed that. In researching my main Drake line, I discovered that one other very diligent person who had done DNA testing and stuff had traced one of our lines all the way back to the year 1200 or so, into […]

Oh, thanks for the tip. I will check that out.

And yes, I have noticed a disturbing trend back then. Men faking their deaths, of going out into the beyond to “find work”, etc and then never coming home, […]

Thank you! And that show often makes me teary as well.

Your family sounds fascinating! I also like your Dad’s method of verification.

I have moonshiners for several generations on my Grandma’s Dad’s side. They were notorious moonshiners for four generations, but […]

I just started by asking my grandparents and great grandparents (I realize that not everyone is as fortunate to having living great grandparents or even grandparents) for anything they could recall. Most […]

Oh and by the by, I use the term ‘street urchin’ because that’s what they always called themselves. And the “extended family” in the photo are actually friends/people they worked with, I think. No actual ‘family’.

Thanks! I’ve amassed quite a collection of photos of family/ancestors over the years. Many of them came from my Grandparents, but a lot of them have come from my ramblings across genealogical endeavors. […]

I don’t frequent the OT threads because of time constraints, but I am a regular writer here and have been for over a year. I don’t like the idea of donating hundreds of points to random commenters for no reason, […]

I have made a recipe that is modified from Paula’s ooey butter cake. It was called nutter butter cake bars.

You mix a box of yellow cake mix with like a stick of melted butter (yeah, I know) and one egg, press […]

My Grandma makes cherry dump cake for my birthday every year, and she makes it just like that. :)