Happy 101 Award

Debbie Blanton Mccoy at Blanton Family Roots and Branches has awarded me the Happy 101 Award.  Thank you, Debbie!  What a wonderful way to start the day. I appreciate the award and thank you for reading ths blog.

I am supposed to list 10 things that make me happy and list 10 blogs to whom I want to pass on this award. What a difficult task, to limit the list to 10. I am attempting to not pass along this award to blogs that have already received the award.

10 Things That Make Me Happy:

My family (including grandchildren and grand pups)
My friends (in real life and online)
Being retired 
Being able to research from home
Learning my Family History
Finding ways to share my findings
Helping users of the Family Tree Maker program
Reading and learning from Genea-Bloggers
Taking Headstone Pictures
Walking a cemetery



10 Blogs I would like to nominate for this award:

AnceStories: The Stories of My Ancestors

Bootcamp for Genealogy Bloggers


Cemetery Photography


Elizabeth Powell Crowe


Family Matters


Family Stories in Stone


Genea-Musings


Granite in My Blood


Illuminated Ancestries



The Graveyard Rabbit Student!

Kreativ Blogger Award - Thank you Dr. Bill

Thank you to Dr. Bill at Dr. Bill Tells Ancestor Stories giving me this honor. It is great to be part a group of people (Genea-Bloggers) who are so dedicated to setting wonderful examples and encouraging the rest of us to continue to blog about our genealogy.

The winner of this award is supposed to list seven things about themselves and then pass the award along to seven other bloggers.

Here I go:

1. I remember my grandfather say "Jack of all trades, Master of none". I understand that, as it relates to Genealogy. I have a good idea as to how to search for my ancestors, know how to record and document my findings, know how to use a computer program to do this.
2. For this specific Blog, I have learned, and continue to learn, the value of Cemeteries and Head stones.
3. Learning what is on a head stone some times helps us know a little more about who is being remembered in this cemeteries.
4. From time to time, my wife and I take 'Day Trips' to visit and walk around a cemetery. You never know who you will meet. Many times, our trip is initiated from a request for "Find-A-Grave", as I am a contributor to that website.
5. This Blog was started based on the "Day Trips" that we started about 10 years ago. Now it's a matter of getting all of the digital pictures organized and put online here, and at Find A Grave.
6. The purpose is to help other family researchers see what a head stone might have to say about an individual
7. I continue to learn about the various Symbols, found on head stones, mean, and what they may be saying about the person for whom that head stone was place.

Please stop by Dr. Bill's Blog(s)

http://drbilltellsancestorstories.blogspot.com/

and his recently published family history books:

http://drbillsbookbazaar.blogspot.com/

Finding ONLY seven to send the award along to is very tough. My list is based on the Blogs that I learn from and follow, daily. Hopefully they are not new to you, but please stop by.

1. Randy Seaver at Genea-Musing
   
2. Thomas MacEntee at Destination: Austin Family
3. Julie Cahill at Graveyard Rabbit
4. Professor Dru at Find Your Folks  and her Power Pointer's Blog 
5. Debbie Blanton McCoy at Blanton Roots and Branches
6. Jasia at Creative Gene
   
7. CMPointer at Family Stories 
   

Thank you, again, Dr. Bill

Enjoy

My Tombstone Collection GYR Receives an Award!

With many thanks to JoLyn at http://mt-timpgraveyardrabbit.blogspot.com/, this blog has received the Kreativ Blogger Award. What an honor.

Thank you JoLyn

I now am excited to pass this award on to seven bloggers - people who author blogs that I really enjoy reading.

They are, in no particular order:

• The Philadelphia Graveyard Rabbit
  Charter Member of the Association of Graveyard Rabbits
  
  
• Lancaster Pennsylvania's Graveyard Rabbit
  A Graveyard Rabbit GeneaBlog © Linda Stienstra
  Charter Member - Association of Graveyard Rabbits
  
  
• Graveyard Rabbit of Moultrie Creek
  Charter Member of the Association of Graveyard Rabbits
  
  
• The Western Washington Graveyard Rabbit
  A Founding Member of The Association of Graveyard Rabbits
  
  
• The graveyard rabbit of Utrecht and Het Gooi
  A geneablog by Henk van Kampen
  Charter member of the Association of Graveyard Rabbits
  
  
• footnoteMaven
  footnoteMaven n: someone who is dazzlingly skilled at inserting a citation denoting a source,
  a note of reference, or a comment at the foot of a scholarly writing
  
  
• Genea-Musings
  Genealogy research tips, genealogy news items, genealogy humor, San Diego genealogy society news, family history research and some family history stories from the keypad of Randy Seaver, who thinks that Genealogy Research Is really FUN! Copyright (c) Randall J. Seaver, 2006-2009.
  
  
  

Be sure to visit them all!


Here are the rules connected with the KreativBlogger Award:


1. Copy the award to your site.

2. Link to the person from whom you received the award.

3. Nominate 7 other bloggers.

4. Link to those sites on your blog.

5. Leave a message on the blogs you nominate.


Congratulations to all - and thanks again, JoLyn

Russ