Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Nov 9, 2009, 12:26 pm
In 1939, breast cancer took the life of my great aunt, Elizabeth Yates Johnston at the young age of forty-nine. We’ve come a long way in treating breast cancer in the 70 years since her death, b...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Nov 8, 2009, 2:50 am
Where is Clinton, Iowa Anyway? My husband grew up in Clinton, Iowa, and when he and I came back from two years in Germany I became familiar with my new hometown and its newspaper, the Clinton Herald....
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Nov 1, 2009, 1:25 am
Road Kill The trick or treaters have come and gone now, but Randy, at Genea-Musings - Saturday Night Genealogy Fun wants us to relate a story of our most memorable Halloween. My story goes back abou...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Oct 23, 2009, 11:39 pm
I vant to drink your blood….  (think Bela Lugosi) You scored as a Gangrel You belong to the Gangrel bloodline. Gangrel are very in touch with nat...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Oct 23, 2009, 11:38 pm
Make sure they can find you. Keep your email address updated. Like pieces of a puzzle, researching your family history and genealogy really can take off when you make connections. I have been doing ...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Oct 23, 2009, 10:38 pm
For thirty nine years I’ve been the main shopper when it comes to buying Christmas gifts. I’ve slogged through snow drifts and been drenched in the rain, but I can say with certainty that ...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Oct 9, 2009, 7:42 pm
  While I was in Idaho my friend Sheryl and I had a chance to watch some videos that I had sent to her. They were Discovery Channel videos called “Thomas Friedman Reporting” with var...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Oct 9, 2009, 7:42 pm
I  had a nice surprise when I visited Are You In My Photo’s site tonight. One of the photos I posted yesterday was chosen for photo of the day. I added this particular photo of my dad’s ...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Oct 9, 2009, 7:42 pm
Roane County, Tennessee “Polk”, as he was called by his family, was born to parents Miles and Deborah Holmes Yates in Roane County, Tennessee. Without proof, I can only cite my Great Aunt Martha...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Oct 9, 2009, 7:42 pm
(I’m not sure where the photo originated. Please let me know so I can give the photographer credit) I didn’t see it in my local paper, the Kitsap Sun (much to my chagrin and dismay!) but ...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Oct 9, 2009, 7:42 pm
Have you seen this new site Are You In My Photo? I found it in an article in Ancestry magazine’s January/February 2009 issue, and I am really, really happy someone created this site. How many o...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Oct 9, 2009, 7:42 pm
Getting Acquainted Game – Family Treasure Hunt 1. Find two people who traveled over 200 miles to the reunion: 2. Find the mother with the most children. 3. Find the oldest and youngest person...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Oct 9, 2009, 7:42 pm
After I posted Your Ancestor Might Have Been Recorded On Tape I got a reply from my local library via email saying the particular manuscript and audio recording wasn’t something the Oregon Histo...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Oct 5, 2009, 8:32 pm
Your Ancestor Might Have Been Recorded On Tape Of course, there are time and technology limitations to the above statement. Even so, but I just ordered through inter-library loan an audiotape of my c...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Sep 26, 2009, 12:28 pm
.flickr-photo { } .flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } W. D. Breedlove – Br...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Sep 16, 2009, 10:59 pm
Get comfortable If you have made arrangements ahead of time to interview a particular person, try to do it in a quiet setting where there will be little or no interruptions. If you will be tape recor...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Sep 16, 2009, 10:59 pm
Lone Sailor Statue Arrives on Bremerton’s Waterfront As the daughter of a Navy veteran of WWII, I am happy to see this statue going up on the waterfront here in Kitsap County, WA. Bremerton is ...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Sep 16, 2009, 10:59 pm
What a nice surprise to get Patricia Rockwell’s email today informing me that I was one of two winners in her Dean Koontz Novel Idea contest. Thank you so much Patricia. This is the book I chose...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Sep 16, 2009, 10:59 pm
Sometimes, genealogical information can come to you in most extraordinary ways. Take, for instance, the life of Henry Travers. You probably know of him from the Frank Capra movie It’s a Wonderfu...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Sep 16, 2009, 10:59 pm
I can’t say this picture necessarily makes me laugh, but it does make me smile . The man on the left is my Great Grand Uncle James Eli Penecost who was born 28 Jan 1867 in Celina, Clay, TN and ...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Sep 16, 2009, 10:59 pm
Years ago, when I first subscribed to Ancestry, they had free MyFamily sites. I had two of them in those days: Yates and Allied Families, and Wilkerson and Allied Families.  I happily added tons of c...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Aug 21, 2009, 6:36 pm
Do you consider yourself a thinking writer If so, Thinking Blog would like to hear from you. There are two ground rules. 1. No politics 2. No religion Click on this link for more detailed informa...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Aug 21, 2009, 6:36 pm
For the last month or two I have been working on research for the Bordeaux family that came to Washington state around 1871 from Canada. In the process, I have put together a picture, at least in my m...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Aug 21, 2009, 6:36 pm
“Where there’s smoke, there’s fire”, so they say. Roadside signs here in Washington state give the forest fire danger level each summer and fall. They say it rains here in Wash...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Aug 21, 2009, 6:36 pm
Our family tree has increased by one today with the arrival of our new granddaughter Shelby Paige Wilkerson.  She was born just after lunch time and weighed 6 pounds 5.6 ounces and was 19 inches long...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Aug 21, 2009, 6:36 pm
I have a funny story to tell you on myself. Many, many years ago when I first began doing genealogy online I was researching my James Harrison line and had joined a mailing list for that surname throu...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Aug 21, 2009, 6:36 pm
As someone who has fibromyalgia, I daily deal with people who just don’t “get it” about the pain I experience. There is no relief, no cure, and no matter what I do 24/7 the pain is t...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Aug 21, 2009, 6:36 pm
[Due to a blog glitch, I have re-posted this story.] Last Friday, my aunt Twyla and Uncle Wally Yates, my cousins Edris and Jack Harbeston, my brother Dave Yates and his wife Kathy, and my husband Ji...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Aug 21, 2009, 6:36 pm
I began doing surveys for Ipsos I-say many years ago as a way to make a few extra bucks. At first, many of the survey sites would pay actual money to complete a certain amount of opportunities, in tur...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Aug 21, 2009, 6:36 pm
What is this cat doing, you ask? This was all part of the early morning exercise regime as practiced by Olivia (above) and Natasha (below) of Idaho Cats On Parade. OK, I made that title up, but th...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Aug 21, 2009, 6:36 pm
Keep informed on Gather.com! Content ranges from politics to cooking, and we earn Gather Points™ or cash for using the site! I have been a member of Gather for over a year now, and not only have I ...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Aug 21, 2009, 6:36 pm
I could see it coming, as I saw it happen in the last few months and days of the Clinton administration: The political paybacks and payoffs. The Bush administration has decided to supply billions of d...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Aug 21, 2009, 6:36 pm
I began doing our family genealogy way back in 1994 when Family Tree Maker was just beginning their now legendary genealogy programs. It has been so long ago, and I have updated almost every time they...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Aug 21, 2009, 6:36 pm
Just to let everyone know, I will be gone for a few weeks on vacation. Thanks for visiting iPentimento | Genealogy and History while I’m gone. I hope you enjoy some of my previous posts. Click ...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Aug 10, 2009, 9:11 pm
1. Yates & Edgmonds making sorghum, 2. JKP Yates with grandchildren, 3. JKP Yates singing master, 4. Jim Pentecost & Jim Yates, 5. Myra & Lydia Yates, 6. Jim & Mary Smith YATES, 7. Cerilda, Myra & Jim...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Aug 10, 2009, 9:11 pm
My father-in-law was here for a visit a few years ago, and as I was setting the table one night he asked me, “Who taught you to cook?”.  I hadn’t really thought about it before, but...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Aug 10, 2009, 9:11 pm
If you read newspapers in the north Texas area, you may have already read my friend Brenda Kellow’s genealogy columns. If you don’t live in that region of the United States, you can still ...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Aug 10, 2009, 9:11 pm
Another sampling of my previous genealogy posts originally written for my Pentimento blog! Roane County Tennessee Cousins  Some of my family links to Roane County, TN. Women’s History Month 2...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Aug 10, 2009, 9:11 pm
    As I watched the last episode of Ken Burns’ “The War” tonight it came to me why there must be wars. No doubt, if you are male you will disagree with me, but I think m...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Aug 10, 2009, 9:11 pm
Join Genealogy Central today! There’s a new place to talk to other genealogists about their favorite topic. It’s called Genealogy Central and it is just a place to come and chat about all...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Aug 10, 2009, 9:11 pm
The Emory family of Centreville, Maryland must be in shock to find that their packrat ancestors kept 400 years of documents. Everything from slave records to more mundane receipts. It makes my paltry ...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Aug 10, 2009, 9:11 pm
I am unable to be completely impartial when it comes to genealogy software that you should use. I have only used Family Tree Maker, and that since I got online in 1994. I never had any complaint about...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Aug 10, 2009, 9:11 pm
  Chocolate? Did  you say…chocolate? Pinksy has a contest he is running where you could win a box of Hotel Chocolat and a bottle of champagne. How sweet is that? All you have to do is wri...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Aug 10, 2009, 9:11 pm
I know there are die-hard veterans of family reunions who read this blog, but what about those that are just getting interested in genealogy and knowing more about their family history? I found a gam...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Aug 10, 2009, 9:11 pm
My mother’s paternal and maternal grandparents all emigrated from Sweden to the United States in the late 1800’s. The Molines went to Minnesota, and the Nordgrens (or Larsons if they were ...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Aug 10, 2009, 9:11 pm
My friend Chris on Autofocused had a wood carving photo called Face In The Wood that reminded me of one of my Tennessee cousins. Well, the lady married one of my Yates cousins anyway. And what a very ...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Aug 10, 2009, 9:11 pm
I usually am willing to give a new program more than a few shots, rather than dismiss it as rubbish out of hand, but after a month or so of trying to get used to the new Family Tree Maker 2008, I am c...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Aug 10, 2009, 9:11 pm
I walked out on our back deck tonight (27 Nov 2007) and took this photo just using my Fuji digital camera and the flash. For whatever reason, this is how it turned out. Kind of “other worldly...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Aug 10, 2009, 9:11 pm
A Personal History With Trains Before there were so many cars on the road, or even roads as we know them now, the main mode of transportation was the steam train used to carry passengers to far dista...
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Carol W. posted an article on iPentimento - Aug 10, 2009, 9:11 pm
I was a freshman in high school when the Vietnam War was just beginning. My brother was four years older than I, and his classmates were graduating and going off to Vietnam. Our school had a total of ...
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