Past Blog Post Archive
Blog Stats
- 216,244 hits
-
Join 1,399 other followers
- Follow Ups Downs Family History on WordPress.com
Facebook Like
RSS Links
Follow me on Twitter
My TweetsFollow Us
-
Recent Posts
- Hurricane Ian almost kills legendary weatherman – The Comeback September 28, 2022
- Poem: Morning Vigil – hermitsdoor
- WWII Submarine Resurfaces After 30 Years; What Was On Board Was Unexpected – Past Factory September 6, 2022
- I’ll Be Staying, Thanks – The Drabble
- Grieving Son Catches Mom’s Ex-Husband Urinating On Her Grave While His Second Wife Watches – YourTango September 26, 2022
Category Cloud
Tags
- 23andMe
- Amazon
- Ancestry.com
- AncestryDNA
- Autosomal DNA
- BackerKit
- Bible
- BillionGraves
- Bipolar Depression
- Blogs
- Book Reviews
- Books
- Bundle of Holding
- Cell Phones
- Cemeteries
- Copyright
- DNA
- DNA Saturdays
- DriveThru RPG
- Family
- FamilySearch
- FamilyTree DNA
- Featured Blogger of the Week
- Featured Vlogger of the Week
- Find-A-Grave
- FindMyPast
- FindMyPastDNA
- FindMyPast Fridays
- First Nations/Native American
- Food
- Forgiveness Sundays
- Gaming
- Gaming Sunday
- Humble Bundle
- Humor
- Indiegogo
- Kansas
- Kansas Tuesdays
- Kickstarter
- LivingDNA
- LotR
- Middle Earth
- military history
- Mississippi
- Mississippi Mondays
- mtDNA
- Museums
- MyHeritage
- MyHeritage DNA
- MyHeritageDNA
- Naval History
- Newspapers
- North Carolina
- North Carolina Thursdays
- Patreon
- RPGs
- Sedgwick County
- Social Media
- Space Saturdays
- TeloYears
- Tombstone Tuesday
- Veritas Genetics
- WBTS/ACW
- WeGene
- Weirdness Wednesdays
- Wichita
- Wikipedia
- WordPress
- World War I
- World War II
- Y-DNA
- YouTube
Menu
Gravatar
Calendar
October 2022 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Blogs I Follow
Follow me on Twitter
My Tweets
Category Archives: Genealogy
Happy 75th Birthday U. S. Air Force – September 18, 2022
I was checking my list of military unit and branch birthdays today and noticed I had missed the Air Force‘s Birthday. Here’s the Military.com article – https://www.military.com/air-force-birthday. It’s a longer article, with a slideshow and some photos. Air Force Birthday … Continue reading
Posted in Bloggers, Genealogy, Military History, Social Media
Tagged Family, YouTube
Leave a comment
For the defense of our own… USS Nathanael Greene SSBN 636 – the leansubmariner
One of the stories form the 41 for Freedom Collection. For the defense of our own… USS Nathanael Greene SSBN 636
Rest In Peace Queen Elizabeth – September 8, 2022
I saw someone has posted her memorial on Find-A-Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/243356919/elizabeth-ii. If you feel inclined, please pay her respects on her memorial. It was interesting that she joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service, a branch of the female service of the British … Continue reading
Posted in Bloggers, Cemetery, Genealogy, History, Military History, Social Media
Tagged Family, Find-A-Grave, World War II, YouTube
Leave a comment
Terms of Service 2014 Update for Ancestry and Find-A-Grave September 1, 2022
I noticed back in 2014 that Ancestry and Find-A-Grave had updated their Terms of Service (TOS). They didn’t announce the update, but I tend to check the TOS for both sites. In this unannounced update, they announced they if you … Continue reading
Posted in Bloggers, Cemetery, Genealogy
Tagged Ancestry.com, Copyright, Family, Find-A-Grave
Leave a comment
Current DNA Sales – September 1, 2022
Current January 2019 DNA sales, updated daily or every other day. Continue reading
Posted in DNA, Genealogy
Tagged 23andMe, DNA Saturdays, FamilyTree DNA, LivingDNA, MyHeritageDNA, TeloYears, Veritas Genetics
Leave a comment
FindAGrave and Me on Edits – August 31, 2022
In most cases, I approve FindAGrave edits after a few days. In rare cases, I will deny an edit and explain why. On some occasions, I will get a denied edit where the person makes the change, but denies the … Continue reading
Current DNA Sales – August 24, 2022
Current January 2019 DNA sales, updated daily or every other day. Continue reading
Posted in DNA, Genealogy
Tagged 23andMe, DNA Saturdays, FamilyTree DNA, LivingDNA, MyHeritageDNA, TeloYears, Veritas Genetics
Leave a comment
AncestryDNA® Updates Ethnicity Results – Ancestry August 22, 2022
I checked recently and saw new updates – AncestryDNA® Updates Ethnicity Results: https://www.ancestry.com/dna/ . Here is one example – Ignore Ethnic Results Below the Continental Level. England & Northwestern Europe 44%Scotland 20%Germanic Europe 17%Sweden & Denmark 10%Wales 6%France 3% I need to update … Continue reading
Posted in Authors, Bloggers, DNA, Genealogy
Tagged Ancestry.com, AncestryDNA, Family
Leave a comment
In Remembrance of Hurricane Camille August 17, 1969 – August 17, 2022
For those who weren’t around in August 17, 1969 or were too young to remember or didn’t live in the area, I was there in Gulfport, Mississippi. We lived a few blocks east of Milner Stadium. It’s about half a … Continue reading
Man, 61, finds birth certificate and realizes he’s spelled his own name wrong his whole life – Metro August 5, 2022
I saw this today on Metro – Man, 61, finds birth certificate and realizes he’s spelled his own name wrong his whole life: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/man-61-finds-birth-certificate-and-realizes-he-s-spelled-his-own-name-wrong-his-whole-life/ss-AA10lEyn?ocid=weather-verthp-feeds/. Short article includes 5 images. Metro August 5, 2022 Man, 61, finds birth certificate and realizes … Continue reading
Ups Downs Family History 
You must be logged in to post a comment.