Tale of Time Genealogy

11/15/2025

The best place to start is always with yourself. Create a Family Group Sheet for yourself and move from there. The National Genealogical Society has free forms. Check out ngsgenealogy.org.

11/03/2025

Do you use DNA 🧬 within your research? It can unlock so many potential connections!

What about your local LDS library? Google? Vital Records websites?

There are many tools available within the genealogy framework that can assist you in your research. They all have their own set of strengths and challenges. I always encourage the use of as many tools as you have available in your search. This allows for cross referencing and often times, provides many pieces to the puzzle you are putting together.

Using DNA results can be confusing and frustrating but I do recommend it's use, if it is available. One book I recommend is DNA for Dummies, a silly title but filled with great information. I also recommend the AncestryDNA 101 webinar on YouTube.

10/30/2025

The season of holidays has begun! We have Halloween followed by the Dia de Los Mu***os and All Saints day, Veterans Day is right around the corner and of course, Thanksgiving, we just finished Diwali, and Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa are all right around the corner!

What are some family traditions that you have held onto, passed down from great grandparents to grandparents to parents to you, maybe to your children or brothers and sisters? Keep track of them time on traditions deserve to be passed down.

10/25/2025

Laid my mother to rest yesterday. No more talking to her about her childhood. No more recipes to be shared. No more memories of the places we visited together. She wasn't an easy person to love, but she encouraged my endeavors, especially the family tree work ask your questions now while you still have the chance spend time with your parents if you can spend time with your family grandparents great grandparents if you're lucky enough to have them still around. Not only do they hold a wealth of information regarding the family and history of your family and their memories in their lives, but they also are pillars of knowledge from things that came before things that shouldn't be forgotten things that should be forgotten, and an understanding of those things gone by.

10/17/2025

In these unusual times, it helps to remember where we came from. Was our family traveling for new adventures? To escape war? To find work? To the "land of milk and honey"? What's YOUR story?

09/07/2025

Polishing silver is a labor of love if it's silver that has been handed down through the generations. My mother recently passed away and all of her silver has been left to me to gently bring back to life. These are items that she inherited from her grandparents and her parents, and that she received through her lifetime. I consider it in honor to restore these items and at the same time, I wish she was still here so I could ask her about them; What memories they invoke for her; what stories lay behind these treasured keepsakes. Love you, mom miss you.

05/16/2025

My grandfather was a budding photographer when he was in high school in the early 1930s and he was also in theater. One of the things that was luckily left to me after he passed away was several photo albums, one of them included several photos of him, and my mom and her sisters, and my grandmother from when they were all babies and young and the other one was my grandfather‘s high school stuff his dance cards, photographs of friends, fun times at Lake Almanor and lots of other wonderful things and photographs. several of the people in the photographs were not family members so I did some research on ancestry.com to see if I could locate these people and I located most of them on ancestry. Unfortunately, none of them were still living. It would’ve been wonderful to talk to them about my grandfather and their high school days, something I never talk to my grandfather about. I reached out to their family members and provided pictures to them of their grandparents, most likely their grandparents or even their great grandparents when they were high school seniors in 1933. You never know what you’re gonna find in your grandparents, closet or photo, albums, or memories. I made some new friends connected some people to photographs that they didn’t have or had never seen and thoroughly enjoyed being able to do that for them.

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05/11/2025

Imagine all the moms that came before: the good ones, the bad ones, the hopeful ones, the desperate ones, the joyful ones. To all you mom's out there, setting the new generation on the path to a good life, or celebrating the path that your children have created, I wish you joy and peace and love. ❤️ happy Mother's Day.

02/23/2025

It's important to remember in these times that who we were makes up who we are. We mustn't forget the terrible past, as well as the good past; the inhumanity of humans, or the humanity of humans. We must strive to be better people. Knowing who you are and where you come from, and how we are all a global mix, should bring you closer to other people and not push us apart. 

12/16/2024

Taken in spring 1945.

12/10/2024

A favorite past time of my father's when he was a boy: hockey. I learned many small details about my family, my grandparents, my aunts and uncles, and stories of my father's past, from photos just like this that inspired questions and great conversations with my dad.

11/29/2024

I've been doing a lot of behind-the-scenes work on some family tree stuff and genealogy and I'll be posting it here within the next week

If you have any questions or something that you might need any help with, please always feel free to reach out to me.