Road Trip: Houston Family History Expo 2012
Posted by Liv | Filed under Road Trip
In a few hours I will be heading out for an information packed two day genealogy conference. That’s right, I will be attending the Houston Family History Expo 2012. This year’s theme is – YOUR FAMILY HISTORY STARTS HERE! – and I understand that Lisa Louise Cooke, producer of the Genealogy Gems Podcast and this year’s [...]
Tags: family history, family history expo, genealogy, genealogy conference, houston, http://www.familyhistoryexpo.com, http://www.familyhistoryexpos.com/wordpress/2012/03/houston-family-history-expo-fast-approaching/, lanyrd.com/cgqwc, tx
Road Trip: Clayton Library, Center for Genealogical Research
Posted by Liv | Filed under Libraries, Research, Resources, Road Trip
My road trip this quarter (on 20 August 2011 to be exact) was to join other family historians for an orientation of the fourth largest genealogy library in the United States — the Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research. Let me say that this wasn’t my first visit to the Clayton Library. Before United States [...]
Tags: ancestry, Clayton House, Clayton Library, family history, genealogical research, genealogy, houston, library, road-trip, texas
My New Year’s Day 2011 Roadtrip
Posted by Liv | Filed under Blanton, Chapple, Road Trip, Surname
Happy New Year! After enjoying a fabulous soul-food meal prepared by my mom who truly knows her way around a kitchen, I talked her into going on a quick genealogy road-trip with me across town in search of the community where my grandfather, Joseph Chapple (mom’s father), and great-grandparents, Louis & Carrie Blanton Chapple (mom’s [...]
Tags: 1910 census, blanton, chapple, family history, fourth ward, genealogy, houston, road-trip, texas
