Celebrate Your Name Week finishes today, with “Genealogy Saturday”. This is a day dedicated to genealogy, and an excellent excuse to spend the day working on your genealogy research. After spending the week learning more about your name, and the names of your ancestors, today is an opportunity to put it all together. Celebrate Your Name Week (CYNW) took place this year, starting on Sunday, March 6, and ending today, Saturday, March 12, 2011. It was founded by Jerry Hill, who wanted a week where people celebrate their name, their middle name, and even the names of other people. If … Continue reading →

Celebrate Your Name Week is nearly over for this year. Have you been following along? If not, it’s ok to backtrack and catch up on what you have missed. Genealogists can use the ideas and concepts presented as part of CYNW as motivation to continue their genealogy research in new directions. Everyone can have fun learning more about their name, and the names of their friends and family. Celebrate Your Name Week(CYNW) takes place between Sunday, March 6, 2011, and Saturday March 12, 2011. Each day is dedicated to a particular way to celebrate your name. Today is “Middle Name … Continue reading →

Celebrate Your Name Week continues with “AKA Thursday”. CYNW is a week filled with fun ways for you to celebrate your own name as well as the names of other people. Each day is dedicated to a particular way to celebrate names. Genealogists can easily adapt these topics into something that will inspire them to delve deeper into their own family history. Celebrate Your Name Week takes place this year between Sunday, March 6 and Saturday, March 12, 2011. If you are just learning about CYNW today, don’t worry. There isn’t any rule against jumping in and participating today, and … Continue reading →

Are you having fun with Celebrate Your Name Week? We are about halfway through it right now, which means that today is “Learn What Your Name Means” Wednesday. If you haven’t been playing along with Celebrate Your Name Week by doing the suggested activities on the appropriate day, that is ok. It is perfectly acceptable to either “catch up”, or jump in at anytime. Celebrate Your Name Week takes place this year starting on Sunday, March 6, 2011, and will end on Saturday, March 12, 2011. Each day has a specific focus that involves celebrating your name, and the name … Continue reading →

This week is Celebrate Your Name Week, and each day is dedicated to a specific, special, way to celebrate your name, and the names of others. Today, Tuesday, March 8, 2011, is the day entirely dedicated to names that are unique. Does someone in your family have an unusual first name? Yesterday, was Fun Facts Monday, a day when it is perfectly acceptable to google yourself, and find out if there is anyone else with an online presence that shares your name. Yesterday, I used a website called “How Many Of Me”. I learned that there are one hundred and … Continue reading →

Did you know that this week is Celebrate Your Name week? Although the week can be celebrated by anyone and everyone, it seems to me that genealogists are going to be especially interested in using this week as the perfect excuse to delve deeper into your own family history. It includes “Genealogy Saturday”! Your name is special. It identifies who you are, and connects you to your immediate family, your relatives, and your ancestors. Nothing gets a person’s attention quicker than when they hear someone else calling out their name. Celebrate Your Name Week (CYNW) is all about making sure … Continue reading →

While it is still cold and snowy here in the Northeastern United States, spring is just around the corner. For many genealogists, nice weather expands the possibilities for genealogical research because you can take your research outside as you search cemeteries for the graves of your ancestors. While I have visited the graves of some of my ancestors, I have not seen any headstones that are out of the ordinary. Although death itself is not funny, sometimes the inscription on a person’s headstone is. A humorous epitaph is a good way to let the memory of the deceased’s wit live … Continue reading →

Don’t you just hate it when you get a bunch of spam email, that fills up your inbox? I’m not sure what about it annoys me the most: the little bit of extra time it takes to delete it, or the disappointment I feel when I discover that it wasn’t an email from a friend or relative after all. Recently, I got a spam email from a bank that had a sum of money waiting for me, left there by a distant relative. If only that were true! We all have heard about the typical email scams that have been … Continue reading →

Celebrities are notorious for choosing unique and unusual names for their children. Perhaps being the child of a celebrity makes it easier to go through life with a first name like Suri, Shiloh, Apple, Kid, Moxie CrimeFighter, or Pilot Inspecktor. However, it’s not just celebrities who choose strange names for their children. Two genealogists have revealed a list of the worst baby names found in the U.S. Census. Michael Sherrod and Matthew Rayback, from the super popular genealogy website called Ancestry.com, have compiled a list of the worst baby names that were ever bestowed upon the children of “regular people”. … Continue reading →