Can't say enough of this book.  Talks of the laws of marriage , divorce , and ownership surrounding women...surpising insight. Great resourses for all states of the U.S.A.

ABBREVIATIONS

BIA Bureau of Indian Affairs

BLM Bureau of Land Management

BLM-EOS Bureau of land Management-Eastern Sates

FHL Family History Library (Salt Lake , Utah)

GLO General Land Office

ILL Inter-Library Loan

INS Immigration and Naturalization Service

LDS The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

NARA National Archives and Records Administration

RG Record Group ~Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology

WPA Work Projects Administration or Works Progress Administration

I love weddings

Genealogy Tip of the Day: Write it or Type it

Genealogy Tip of the Day: Write it or Type it: "You won't remember that fact, where you found it, where you put it, or who is in that picture. Write it down, type in your genealogical data..."

Same should go for making lists...just remember to title and date them. I do this with the connections I find on Ancestry.com where the person's email is shown in their contact info. Keeping who is with which relative can be pretty trying sometimes

NEW YEAR's TRADITIONS

52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History Wk 1 ~
Saturday, January 1 at 8:00am - January 7 at 11:00pm

Another year for the Genealogy Challenge and other chance to keep up with my blog.
Week 1: New Year’s. Did your family have any New Year’s traditions? How was the New Year celebrated during your childhood? Have you kept these traditions in the present day

I really don't remember any set family thing as to New Year's tradition while growing up other then trying to stay awake to watch on TV the "BALL" drop with Dick Clark, in my early teens . As I got older, I did manage to stay awake through the New Year. Sadly to say, it just isn't the same anymore without the "OLDEST TEENAGER" there for the whole thing.

The past 5 or six years I have been working the 3rd shift at whatever job I may have had, and again l was working when the new year slipped in under my nose!

There are a lot of New Year's Traditions from around the world, as well as the SUPERSTITIONS, and Customs.

And of course, NEW YEAR's DAY is a whole another ball of wax so to speak!

As for the tradition of making resolutions for the new year~ I am making one which I can never break~by making NONE...can't break what you make~simple and easy!