| Apr 20 | “55 years & counting!” Mom put this on Facebook. “55 years & counting!” |
| Apr 7 | Thursday, April 1, 1976 Forty-eight years ago, on April 1, 1976, Grandpa died. I was two years old at the time. Mom reminded us while I was visiting a week ago. |
| Mar 26 | Immigrants from Germany at Ellis Island in 1900 |
| Mar 10 | Lincoln and the Fight for Peace “As the tide of the Civil War turned in the spring of 1865, Abraham Lincoln took a dangerous two-week trip to visit the troops on the front lines accompanied by his young son, seeing combat up close, meeting liberated slaves in the ruins of Richmo... |
| Mar 9 | Did my ancestor James Boal have a twin brother? James and David share a birthday, St. Patrick’s Day 1764. Both left Northern Ireland for America, settling in central Pennsylvania. |
| Mar 9 | The most violent group of people who ever lived? The horse-riding Yamnaya used their huge height and muscular builds to brutally murder and invade their way across Europe more than four thousand years ago. They had nutritionally rich diets and were tall, muscular, and skilled horse riders. It is... |
| Mar 7 | ‘A common fallacy when writing about the past’ “In literary and historical analysis, presentism is a term for the introduction of present-day ideas and perspectives into depictions or interpretations of the past. Some modern historians seek to avoid presentism in their work because they consid... |
| Mar 6 | Rothenburg, Germany |
| Mar 6 | I love travel posters This one is from Germany. |
| Feb 17 | The County Farm WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1904 I have been looking for this for years. I have been wondering what happened to my ancestor James Conner. He was born in 1818 into a hillbilly family from Virginia. Sadly, he ended up on the “county farm” in Nodaway Cou... |
| Feb 23 | OUR CHALLENGE: Personal Histories and Compiled Genealogies |
| Oct 11 | DearMYRTLE is retiring 1 May 2022 |
| Aug 18 | ARCHIVED: WACKY Wednesday - Excel, Google Drive, and Google Sheets,... |
| Aug 17 | ARCHIVED! Mondays with Myrt - 16 Aug 2021 |
| Aug 6 | The Sky is Falling, Or Is It? #Ancestry TOS Challenges |
| Jun 7 | CensusGenie: WHY Search By Location? 2 June 2021 |
| Jun 7 | ARCHIVED: Mondays with Myrt - 7 June 2021 including GEDCOM 7.0 info |
| Jun 7 | BetterGEDCOM>FHISO> GEDCOM 7.0 is here! |
| May 25 | ARCHIVED: Serbia Genealogy Research with Fr. Ivan Delic |
| May 12 | Strategies for Saving Public Meeting Videos on YouTube |