Jul 04 2022
Bertha Gallegos’ interest in family research started with doing genealogy projects in high school. But it fully sparked in 1986 when her brother took her to a meeting of the Colorado Society of Hispanic Genealogy (hispanicgen.org), “to give me something to do,” she said. Annie Mabry had always been interested in family history. “I became …
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Apr 07 2020
Our world has changed. In March, we didn’t expect a statewide ‘Stay at Home’ order as Colorado and the world are dealing with COVID-19. This is an opportunity to work on your family history and organize your files and photos. This will increase the chances of photos being preserved after you are gone. There are …
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Oct 29 2019
As many people and caregivers know, there is an awful lot of information and paperwork that accumulates after a diagnosis and throughout treatment and survivorship. So what information is essential to keep? And what is the best way to keep it all organized? Here’s a partial list of important medical information to keep: • Complete …
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Oct 16 2018
“The best classroom in the world is at the feet of elders.” I have found validity countless times in this quote from Andy Rooney. After many years of a project where I interview and preserve the stories of veterans, as well as doing people’s life stories, I found these stories are full of personal and …
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Sep 04 2018
The answer is not a simple one and it depends on what your goals are. If you want to share your family history with your extended family, you can create a scrapbook with documents such as birth and death certificates, published obituaries, and family pictures. You can add paragraphs describing the significance of the documents …
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Mar 06 2018
As genealogists, we love to dig into our family history. What about the history of your house? My neighborhood was built in 1955 and offered Korean War veterans a three-bedroom house for a down payment of just one dollar. The floor-plan offered space for growing families although electrical outlets were limited. The builders never imagined …
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