Friday, June 29, 2012

Society Saturday - NSDAR Continental Congress

Daughters of the American Revolution from across the USA gathered in Washington DC this week for our annual meeting. Here we meet up with our friends to exchange ideas and celebrate accomplishments.
The outside temperature today is over 100°, but Constitution Hall is air conditioned.
This photo is the Illinois Vice Regent Shirley Fish reporting for our state.


Thursday, June 14, 2012

Giving Back

Having benefitted from the labors of many people who indexed prior censuses as well as other records on Family Search, I try to give back when I have a chance -

I helped index the first half of the 1940 US census - haven't found any of my family, but I've been working my way through Illinois and Ohio...I helped index the first half of the 1940 US census