Happy Easter!

Okay, normally I wouldn't do this, but I'm about to post one of those emails that gets forwarded over and over again.  I've convinced myself that since I've waited a year and am posting it to my blog, it isn't the same as forwarding the message via email.  Right?  Anyway, I think it's kind of cute, so here goes ...

All I need to know, I learned from the Easter Bunny:

• Don't put all your eggs in one basket. 
•  Everyone needs a friend who is all ears.
• There's no such thing as too much candy.
• All work and no play can make you a basket case.
• A cute tail attracts a lot of attention.
• Everyone is entitled to a bad hare day.
• Let happy thoughts multiply like rabbits.
• Some body parts should be floppy.
• Keep your paws off of other people's jelly beans.
• Good things come in small, sugar coated packages.
• The grass is always greener in someone else's basket.
• To show your true colors, you have to come out of the shell.
• The best things in life are still sweet and gooey.

Have a Hoppity Good Easter!!

No new posts?

Oh, my!  I just realized that I haven't posted anything on my blog since March 23rd!!!  Oh dear!  Maybe I've been having a little too much fun over on Swagbucks!

New post coming tomorrow, I promise!!

Search Terms that Brought You to Me

Shortly after I started blogging, another blogger (maybe Amy on We Tree Genealogy?) posted an article on search terms that brought people to her blog.  With my curiousity spiked, I took a quick peak at search terms for my blog:

• family
• geneabloggers
• blog

Bummer, all very generic search terms for family history blogs.  I realized that I needed to wait after I had more content posted.  Today, on a whim I took a look again and found some interesting results.  Google and Blogger provide different results, which intrigues me because Blogger is a Google product!

Blogger indicates the following search terms are popular for my blog:

• Ida Waage blog
• Ida Waage was my Great-Great-Grandmother.  I'm certain she didn't have a blog of her own as she passed away in 1939, but I do have a few posts about her (err .. my) family.  Check the posts labeled with Waage (her husband's name) or Wicks (her maiden name).
• christie michelle sumstad
• I'm afraid you've been led astray.  It appears that search results took content from two posts and sent you here.  Rev. Sumstad officiated at Madala Wicks' funeral. Christi Sjursdatter, Madala's mother-in-law, was listed in the 1865 Norwegian Census.
• norm jorenby spanish american war
• The Spanish American War occurred in 1898, four years before my great-grandfather Norman Jorenby was born in 1902.
• weinkauf haugesund
• Were the Weinkauf's from Haugesund too?  I'm not sure, but I might have to research that now.  I announced the arrival of a new bundle of joy last September, when my cousin Isabella Weinkauf was born.   My Waage family came from the Haugesund, Norway area.

Google provided the following popular search terms:

• Haktor  (also variants Hector and Hactor)
• I've been researching Hactor/Hector/Haktor Wicks recently.  I have four posts all about Haktor Wicks:  Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
• Susanville CA
• You'll find one post about a Susanville, California postcard in Grandma Leola's collection.
• Mrs May
• I don't believe I have anyone by the last name May.  Though I did a post containing Mrs. May Schrode Reep's obituary.
• stack of postcards
• Interesting choice of keywords; are you working on a postcard project?  I do have a series of posts titled "Those Places Thursday - Postcards", beginning with the Susanville, CA one listed above.
• teddy girl
• I love this one - if only because I love my teddy bears!  In Grandma Leola's collection, I found two pictures of the same girl with a teddy bear.
• emma handy wiki
• I'm quite certain that Emma Rittman, who passed away in 1918, wasn't very handy with a wiki.

Enjoy your reading!

From the Jukebox to the iPod

An interesting tidbit from Wired.com (via Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter):

World's First Jukebox

File this under "How Our Ancestors Lived." 121 years ago today, the first jukebox is installed at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco. It become an overnight sensation, and its popularity soon spread around the world. Four stethoscope-like tubes were attached to an Edison Class M electric phonograph fitted inside an oak cabinet. The tubes operated individually, each being activated by the insertion of a coin, meaning that four different listeners could be plugged into the same song simultaneously.

You can read more in the Wired.com web site at http://goo.gl/OtfU8

Today's iPods and MP3 players offer the ability to go for a run and still listen to your tunes.  Add in portable speakers and you can share your tunes with all your friends.   Gotta love the advancements in technology!

Follow Friday - Be Not Forgot-Quotes and GeneaBlog

Here are a couple Genealogy Blogs I'm following:

http://www.geneabloggers.com/
A blog about genealogy blogging, for the genalogy bloggers, by the genealogy bloggers.  Geez, I wonder how many times I can put genealogy and blog in one sentence!  This site should provide me with lots of good prompts to encourage my blogging habit.

http://benotforgot-quotes.blogspot.com/
I love genealogy and I love quotes.  So this neat little blog is one that I'm sure I'll spend too much time reading.  The writer has devoted an entire blog to quotes pertaining to family and genealogy.

Wacky Wednesday: Grave Humor

Here's a wacky book that I came across as I was reading another genealogy blog. Sorry, I've browsed several blogs lately, I'm not sure which blog led to this book.

We all like a good play on words once in a while, so how about a play on names?  This new book, Grave Humor, depicts loads of interesting word/name pairings found in cemeteries. 

Some samples can be found on the book's website: http://www.gravehumorbook.com/


... On second thought, maybe you want to pre-order your headstone and pre-arrange your plot so you and your final neighbors names don't end up in a future edition of Grave Humor.