Overthinking Writing
I appreciate that you are spending your moments with me. And there are a lot of other writers out there who don’t start a sentence with a conjunction. Or make a sentence fragment a whole sentence. Like I do…
To Quit Overthinking, Think More
Though counter-intuitive, to escape from overthinking, I need to think more, and so should you.
How can I do family history work as a busy parent?
I call myself Genealogy Jen. Six years ago, as a mom of triplet toddlers and a newborn, life seemed too busy for family history work. Read about small things you can do, no matter how busy you are, to share family history with your children.
Enslaved Persons of John Goff, Bedford County Virginia 19 April 1827
This post is part of My Commitment for Black History Month. I encourage you to share the names of the enslaved persons you find during your genealogy research to help African American genealogy research.
I have hope
It can be easy to let the despair about the state of our world swallow me in depression, but I have hope. I have hope, because I also see the good. I have to search harder for it, but it is there. I see what you are doing to make a difference and help others.
Enslaved persons of John Goff Amherst County Virginia 2 May 1763
I can not change what other people have done in the past, especially my super shady ancestors. (They know who they are.) What I can do, is give a voice to the unnamed. By recording and sharing their names, my hope is that it will inspire others to publicly share information they encounter in their genealogy research that may help African American genealogy research, and the millions of descendants of the enslaved.
Parenting and Potential
Potential.
It’s a word I think about a lot as a parent. What could my boys become someday? What can they accomplish? Who will they be? Parenting my gifted children, it feels like there are so many possibilities