Genealogy #70: Genealogy 2.0

I did the Celebrity Collage using various pictures of myself and my family.
I would post some of the results, but I have no idea how to "use the widget" to do so.
The closest match to me (at 73%) was Natalie Merchant. I don't see it, though....

Then I went to Footnote....I think that is pretty useless...sorry....

Genealogy #69: Database Researching

I went to Heritage Quest and looked up my father's family name.
I found my greatgrandfather and his family on the 1910 census.
I then went to the 1930 census and found my grandfather and his family, including
my dad who was then 5 years old...that was cool!

Genealogy # 68: Detective Work

Exercises:

I tried to look/listen at Tejano voices, but it kept locking up the computer for some reason.

As far as doing an oral history, most of my older relatives are deceased.
That leaves my mom and an aunt of my fathers.
The aunt always reminisces about the family, so I have learned a great deal from her stories.

I did go to the Find-A-Grave site. I looked up the cemetery where my dad and most of my relatives on his side of the family are buried. None of them were listed as of yet.

There is a very interesting marker in the cemetery....
I don't know if you can read it....it says that Paul is the illegitimate son
of Nelson and Leona.....and he was apparently adopted by his
aunt and uncle. He's not dead yet...so did he put up his marker himself in preparation?
I guess he wanted the truth to be told....

Did you look at the section for "interesting epitaphs"?
There are some funny markers out there....LOL!