Ruth's Genealogy

01/14/2021

...and I never got out of my car! The Covid-19 pandemic will soon mark it's first birthday in the United States (remind me not to go to that birthday party!), so a trip to the library is no longer a routine event. When you went to the library a year ago, must-haves included pencil and paper or a laptop computer or tablet....

…and I never got out of my car! The Covid-19 pandemic will soon mark it’s first birthday in the United States (remind me not to go to that birthday party!), so a trip to the library is …

01/12/2021

As I mentioned in my last post, I pretty much stopped doing genealogy for a few years because I was just burned out. I think part of that burnout was caused from trying to get the paperwork just right. I'm a perfectionist, so if it ain't 100%, it ain't nothin'! It just became too much. And what paperwork am I referring to?...

As I mentioned in my last post, I pretty much stopped doing genealogy for a few years because I was just burned out. I think part of that burnout was caused from trying to get the paperwork just ri…

01/10/2021

I have done very little research in a long time, years really. Why? I think I just got burned out. Life goes on. Priorities change. But maybe my priorities have changed again. Besides, it's the dead of winter, there's a nasty pandemic lurking, and I'm about done with Spring Cleaning! So, time to reassess what data I already have, what I need and how to manage it all....

I have done very little research in a long time, years really. Why? I think I just got burned out. Life goes on. Priorities change. But maybe my priorities have changed again. Besides, it’s t…

07/12/2019

High school yearbooks. So important to high school kids. Photographs of students, teachers, administrators. Activities, such as clubs, sports, band. Autographs. Memories. Pretty much all things hig…

07/12/2019

I haven’t done any serious research in a long time… years, actually. Just lost interest. Burned out. Distracted by… To be brutally honest, the effort to create the perfect source citation just kill…

01/03/2018

Joel Francis APPLING, a distant cousin from my STANLEY line 2 Sep 1809 Clark County, Georgia 23 Apr 1888 Pleasant Hill, Mississippi

Joel Francis APPLING, a distant cousin from my STANLEY line               2 Sep 1809 Clark County, Georgia 23 Apr 1888 Pleasant Hill, Mississippi

05/11/2017

Miles Francis Stanley II was born on 15 Jan 1915 in Grandview, Texas to John Thomas Stanley and Marie Mistrot Carrico. As the oldest of 4 children and the only boy, Miles was an active child, belon…

04/20/2017

Charley Belle Stanley suddenly found herself a single woman in 1970 with the death of husband Miles. Supported by her children and grandchildren, she soon ventured out into the working world, securing employment at Cox’s Department Store in Fort Worth. Life goes on and bills gotta be paid. Charley Belle’s mother, Mary Tennessee Rogers, known as “Mawmaw” to family and friends, had come to live in the Stanley home in the late 1960’s. [ 305 more words ]

https://ruthsgenealogy.wordpress.com/2017/04/19/charley-belle-rogers-1916-2014-part-3

Charley Belle Stanley suddenly found herself a single woman in 1970 with the death of husband Miles. Supported by her children and grandchildren, she soon ventured out into the working world, secur…

04/20/2017

Charley Belle Rogers and Miles Francis Stanley, Jr, accompanied by friends Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Daniels, eloped to Marietta, Oklahoma and were married on 31 December 1934. Upon their return to Texas, the newlyweds took up residence with Charley Belle’s parents on May Street. Miles served as a painter’s helper at the Fort Worth National Bank Building in Fort Worth and Charley Belle worked to prepare their new home. [ 292 more words ]

https://ruthsgenealogy.wordpress.com/2017/04/19/charley-belle-rogers-1916-2014-part-2

Charley Belle Rogers and Miles Francis Stanley, Jr, accompanied by friends Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Daniels, eloped to Marietta, Oklahoma and were married on 31 December 1934. Upon their return to Texas,…

04/20/2017

Charley Belle Rogers was born in Yoakum, Texas on 4 Oct 1916 to Charles Arthur Rogers and Mary Tennessee Turner. As the only child of older parents (Charles was 46 and Mary was 36 when Charley Belle was born), Charley Belle was doted on and very close to her folks. Charles worked as a bridge foreman for the San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway Company and Mary was a stay-at-home mom. [ 212 more words ]

https://ruthsgenealogy.wordpress.com/2017/04/19/charley-belle-rogers-1916-2014-part-1

Charley Belle Rogers was born in Yoakum, Texas on 4 Oct 1916 to Charles Arthur Rogers and Mary Tennessee Turner. As the only child of older parents (Charles was 46 and Mary was 36 when Charley Bell…

04/14/2017

I have neglected my Ruth’s Genealogy WordPress blog, Twitter and pages for too long. So I have spent the past couple of days updating and polishing and rearranging… Spring Cleaning, I guess! I’ve also been thinking about where to put my database online. Genealogy is about sharing, so it you keep it all to yourself, what’s the point, ya know? [ 138 more words ]

https://ruthsgenealogy.wordpress.com/2017/04/14/trying-to-get-up-to-speed

I have neglected my Ruth’s Genealogy WordPress blog, Twitter and pages for too long. So I have spent the past couple of days updating and polishing and rearranging… Spring Cleaning, I gues…

04/14/2017

FYI: for anyone following the rss for my blog, it has gone back to the wordpress.com address:

https://ruthsgenealogy.wordpress.com/

“I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.” -Abraham Lincoln