Back to Genealogy

The genealogy bug has finally bitten me again after several months away from all things related to family history/research.  The trigger?  One of my annual subscriptions was up for renewal.  Funny how spending money can be like a kick in the pants!

Last night I realized that it was exactly one year since I had updated my website ... and it had been even longer since posting here on the blog.  I had worked a little bit on genealogy during that time (key word "little"), but a lot of it had been on my husband's family - a whole different story that has no impact on my blog or website.

During the last year there has been a final phase of remodeling and trying to restore order to the house, vacations, and the pièce de résistance ... two days after Christmas I hurt my back moving boxes.  So bad that my doctor prescribed a muscle relaxer and Acetaminophen laced with codeine to handle the pain.  I spent January doing physical therapy three days a week.  I'm much, much better now but it's difficult admitting that there are limits to what I can do.  Good thing genealogy doesn't require much heavy lifting!

Back to triggers.  The annual renewal mentioned above is for historical newspapers - and I finally succeeded at finding articles on a story line that I had never been able to locate before.  My Church family will be interested in future posts about the 1878 murder of Mary Church and the subsequent lynching of John Wallace.  We knew the gist of the story, but I uncovered a lot of new details.  Stay tuned for those.

For my Harris and Aston families ... I have large, oval photos of my grandparents, Charles McClure Harris and Dessie Charlotte Aston - the kind that are usually in antique frames with bubble glass.  Over the years, they had faded and had developed a lot of cracks/scratches.  I finally took them to a photographer for restoration and the results are amazing!  He is working on a revised website and will be including the before and afters on it.  Once the new website for Studio Ten is online, I'll post more about this undertaking.

As for my website, I should be uploading an update later today - I don't want to miss that one year anniversary!  It will include 37 new people and some formatting changes that I had started last year.  More about that tomorrow.  For now ... let's just say "I'm baaack!" and planning to be more active with this blog.  It's a little late, but:

Happy New Year!