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Site SEARCH function
My family site has over 100 articles and posts about multiple branches of my family, research tips, and links. I organize them with categories and menus, but with so much content, it's often difficult to know what's on the site. Did you know you can SEARCH for names, places, and other keywords. For example, if you are related to the Wagners, you can search for your surname and it will return any posts with that…
Visit my New Online Shop for Photo Gifts
You are invited to visit my new Online Shop of cool products using my photographs. I have selected a few images from my collection that I thought would work well for phone cases and other products. I ordered an iPhone case using the hummingbird photo I took at my mom's house a few years ago. I absolutely LOVE it. Ever since Covid stopped my musician clients from performing, they can’t order CDs from me. So I…
The Climb from Salt Lick by Nancy L. Abrams
The Climb from Salt Lick: A Memoir of Appalachia In the mid-1970s, Nancy L. Abrams, a young photojournalist from the Midwest, plunges into life as a small-town journalist in West Virginia. She befriends the hippies on the commune one mountaintop over, rents a cabin in beautiful Salt Lick Valley, and falls in love with a local boy, wrestling to balance the demands of a job and a personal life. She learns how to survive in…
Introducing O Muse! Magazine
I started a digital magazine! Over the last year, Covid shut down most of my music industry business. A couple months ago I came up with this idea as a way to take my business in a new direction, and self promote my design, photography and art director skills. I just released the first issue today. It is kind of a family and friends edition, with features from my aunt Elly Wagner, cousin Morgan Wagner…
Are we related to Daniel Boone?
As I entered names on my Thornton side, I noticed a few Boones popping up. They weren't in my direct line, so I made a mental note and moved on. My ancestors came from Southwest Virginia, not that far from North Carolina. So I knew it was possible, even likely. But when I started entering the name Bertelot for my direct ancestors, I started paying a little more attention. Daniel Boone lived near Bertelots in…
New article email system / Cousins!
I have not been good about sending out articles from my family blog. I've been writing them and I've been making some neat discoveries, but I seem to be stymied by the next step of opening my email service, copying the article over, and sending. So I found a plugin for my site that I hope will improve my communications to email articles directly from my blog, eliminating the extra steps. Lots and Lots of…