One Lovely Ancestor Approved Blog ~

I want to thank my fellow bloggers for choosing my blog for these awards. I was given the Ancestor Approved award by several bloggers quite awhile back. Since my mom passed away, my blogging slowed way down, and, I wasn't blogging everyday as it was.Genealogy has somewhat taken a back seat to daily life, grandchildren and the list goes on...all of which keeps me pretty busy and I am now very behind around here.  

Kathleen Reed at Family Matters

Jennifer Wilhelmi at The Erudite Genealogist

Wendy B. at In the shade of my family tree

John Patton at Patten Genealogy 

I know there are at least four more and I apologize if I have missed noting your name and blog...I am currently cleaning up my email and I am sure I will come across those I have left out...still, I am very grateful and happy to know someone is still reading my oh-so-very-quiet blog. 

I won't be passing these awards on as I see just about everyone has received them at least once! 

Thank you ~

The Ancestor Approved Award ~

Just this last week Tuesday March 30th, I lost a very dear neighbor (two doors up) and friend and then on Monday, April 5th, 2010, I lost my maternal Oma (grandmother) in Germany. Life has been just a bit upside down. I am very involved with some of the arrangments for my neighbor...I am making the memorial cards and created a menu calendar so that each neighbor makes a meal on a different day. This way the family will have meals/dinners for the next two weeks. It worked out wondefully. I am also working on scanning and putting together a memorial post for my grandmother, the last two weeks have really been tough.  

So, I wanted to take a moment to thank those who thought enough of me to give me this award not once but four five times...thank you so much...wonderful things like this always happen when you need it the most! I am so very grateful! Thank you Carol from Reflections From the Fence, Mary from Me and My Ancestors,  Mavis from Georgia Black Crackers, and Astrid from Of Troll and Lemons and Mary from Mary's Musings. I feel I have forgotten someone...if so, I apologize (I do remember now!). Now, I am Ancestor Approved and  love it, I am only sorry that it took me a bit to get my graditude out to all of you.

As a recipient of this award I am to list 10 things you have learned about my ancestors that have surprised, humbled or enlightened me, and then pass the award on to 10 other genealogy bloggers who I believe would make their ancestors proud.

I am at a loss for words at the moment but I do want to keep this award moving and send it to those who so deserve it...all of you do...it's always difficult to pin it down to a required number. In keeping with the awards tradition, here are my 10...

Missy at Bayside Blog

Elizabeth at Little Bytes of Life

Nick at Nick Gombash's Genealogy Blog

Robin at Where I Come From

Michelle at Girl of the Random Leaf

Tammy at Genealogy - It All Starts Somewhere

Vickie at BeNotForot

Heather at [FAMILY] HISTORY IS THE LIE COMMONLY AGREED UPON

John at Transylvanian Dutch

Terri at The Ties That Bind

Gwen at The Robertson/Kubberness Connection

As I said, I really had a hard time just picking 10...many have already received this award so I wanted to share with those who have not as of yet. Thank you all...

                                                                  

A Blogger's Best Friend Award

My very dear friend Felicia over at My Nola Heritage has given me this special award, thank you Felicia! You really put a smile on my face and I am very touched. You are correct, even though we blog for ourselves, it is really nice to have blogger "friends" along on this journey with us. This community of genealogy bloggers have to be the most supportive, giving, caring and helping bunch of people I have ever met! It's an honor to be a part of it, and I treasure the friendships that I have made. It's nice to know that I write something others will want to read!

According to Felicia, I have to give this award to my most loyal blog readers. The award should be given to a follower of yours who takes the time to comment regularly on many of your posts. In addition, his or her blog should be creative, funny and always entertaining. Upon receiving this award, pass it along to two fellow bloggers who fit this criteria.

Picking just two is just plain crazy!! That is going to be really tough!! I am tempted to pick more but I will stick to the rules!!

There isn't a post that goes by that Carol over at "Reflections From The Fence" leaves me a comment. She is a very true follower and her blog is funny, creative and always entertaining with stories of their travels in "Tana" here's to you Carol, you are a great blogger friend. '

Robin over at "Where I Come From" is my best friend blogger all the way, she always leaves me warm and supportive comments! I love Robin's motto: "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away". Her blog is creative, entertaining and she takes the best photos.

Please take the time to check-out both blogs of my great friends. I cannot tell you how many "Best Friend" bloggers out there I wish I could pick. I have made some very treasured friendships in the genealogy blogging community. It's not fair that I can't mention all of you! Thanks to all of you for your friendship, creativity, entertainment, support and help that you always give unselfishly.

A Happy 101 Award~

I woke up this morning to a wonderful surprise ~ Cheryl over at Heritage Happens and Carol from Reflections From The Fence, awarded me with the wonderful Happy 101 Award.

Thank you Cheryl and Carol, it's an honor receiving this award from you both! You both have put a smile on my face to last a week and it truly makes me Happy! Like Carol, I believe that things come to you when you need them the most! This was right on time.

So, the responsibilities that go with this award are as follows. I am to list 10 things that make me happy.

1. My grand kids and daughter, they are so precious.

2. My childhood best friend Sandy, and my sister in law, Honor, they both have been there for me thru thick and thin, and always bring happiness to my life.

3. My mom, who is also my best friend.

4. Genealogy and my genea~friends, I have made some very wonderful friendships here and treasure them.

5. My card making and beautiful papers.

6. Hot tea, I have always loved hot tea and drink it all day long, it soothes my soul and makes me feel good. I drink Green tea all during the day and Chamomile in the evening.

7. Chocolate and chocolate with my tea!

8. Taking and looking at photos. Ever since I was a little girl I have always loved looking at photos and I surround myself with photos of family and friends. Each time I look at them, it makes me happy.

9. My husband and all that he does for me.

10. Knowing that I have made a difference in someones life by helping or just being there.

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~ Ten very deserving blogs that I want to pass this award to ~

1. My Nola Heritage ~ Felicia

2. Herstoryan ~

3. I Never Knew My Father ~ Sandra

4. Bayside Blog~ Missy

5. Little Bytes of Life ~ Elizabeth

6. Patton Genealogy ~ John

7. Where I Come From ~ Robin

8. Tricks Of The Tree ~ Michael Hait

9. Destination: Austin Family ~ Thomas MacEntee

10. The Shy Genealogist ~ Lisa

Since I was nominated twice, I am going to go over and pick a few more, it's so hard to just pick ten! ~

11. Our Georgia Roots ~ Luckie

12. LowCountry Africana ~ Toni

13. footnoteMaven ~ fm

Ok, I better stop, because if it was up to me, I would nominate everyone and that's not fair if I keep going! I know I need to leave some for others to pick. Each and everyone one listed and not listed have wonderful blogs that offer and contribute so much to us. I appreciate each and everyone of you and love reading your blogs. Thank you for all you do and give to all of us. Please check out these wonderful blogs if you haven't done so before, and leave a comment letting them know you stopped by. Now I too am off to let these blogs know they have an award waiting to be picked up.

The Kreativ Blogger Award ~ Thank You, Carol!

What a pleasant surprise to receive the "Kreativ Blogger Award" today from Carol and her wonderful blog "Reflections From the Fence" - we share the love of RV'ing! It's always fun to read about Carol's "RV" traveling adventures and whats going on with "Tana."

Thank you so much Carol - I am very honored and grateful to have been chosen.

The winner of the award has to list seven things about themselves and then pass the award along to seven other bloggers.

Here we go:

1. My family means the world to me and they come first. Grateful that my Mom is my best friend, the one I can trust and count on. She is an amazing Lady.

2. I love spending time with my precious grandkids, what we learn from them, is priceless.

3. The friendships I have here in the blogoshpere and with my "non" genealogy friends, have made me a very rich girl and I treasure them.

4. Although fairly new, I am extremely passionate and very serious about the preservation of my family history~ genealogy for generations to come.


5. I love to make my own cards using pretty papers and writing with my huge selection of different colored pens!


6. Surrounding myself with positive, supportive and geniune people. I love helping others when I can.

7. Camping and going to the desert in our RV coach. It's nicer than my home - just kidding but it is nice!

It was very difficult to pick just seven, each and every blogger out there has their own wonderful unique Kreativness. Here are my seven~

1. Herstoryan ~ Herstoryan

2. I Never Knew My Father ~ Sandra Taliaferro

3. Georgia Black Crackers ~ Mavis Jones

4. Heritage Happens ~ Cheryl Palmer

5. Elyse's Genealogy Blog ~ Elyse Doerflinger

6. Life From The Roots ~ Barbara Poole

7. Kick-Ass Genealogy ~ Katrina McQuarrie

There are so many more I would like to list here but I had to leave some for other bloggers to choose from! Enjoy - each blog is full of interesting reading enjoyment, information and family stories.

Thank you for nominating Ginisology!

Ginisology has been nominated for Family Tree Magazines Top 40 Genealogy Blogs! I am lucky enough to be listed amongst the 12 most creative, helpful, informative genealogy blogs in the Personal/Family Category and I am very grateful, Thank you! Ginisology is fairly new and to be on that list is quite a surprise and honor!

If you haven't voted yet, do head over and vote for your favorites in each category, and you can vote more than once, it's ok! Every blog is unique and has so much to offer, it's tough picking them. You have until Nov 5th, 2009.

Also, please check out footnoteMavin's wonderful poll roll here, she has made it very easy, thank you fm. If you haven't had the opportunity to check BeNotForgots geneablogs in a cloud of nominee's, head on over, as always Vickie is so creative and she did a beautiful job of showing us off, thank you!

Voting is open, good luck to everyone.

Puckerbrush Blog Award~ Thank you Becky

Once again I have received an award that I hardly feel worthy of but am very grateful and surprised! Thank you Becky at Grace and Glory, you are so very sweet, and gave this to me at a time that I needed a smile on my face! In another post I will fill all in on events but I have had alot on my plate and my Mom was back in the hospital again, much more serious this time around.

As I have said before, the Genea-blogger family is an incredible group and at times I feel closer to them than my own family! We know each other and get each other! Many more deserve this award far more than I do, I have barely contributed, but I am very grateful that Becky has given this award to me, she has been one that has stuck by me as well as Cheryl at Heritage Happens and Thomas at Destination: Austin Family, like Becky, Thomas is my mentor too, what an incredible person and one that we all have learned so much from. If it weren't for Cheryl at Heritage Happens, I would not be here, she has been an incredible amount of support and makes sure I am taken care of! Thank you all, you have all received this award and so I will pass this on to 10 others that I follow daily and learn from and make a difference in my life and blog. I hope one day that I too will be able to contribute and make a difference to others. I am very grateful for being able to be a part of this Genea-blog family, thank you to all of you.

The award was created in honor of genealogy blogger Janice Brown by Terry Thornton, author of "Hill Country of Monroe County, Mississippi", who explained that "Janice told us all about the word 'puckerbrush' in an article she posted August 27, 2007 at "Cow Hampshire". Terry elaborated a bit further in a comment: 'On any land allowed to go fallow and left untended, a wild assortment of wild plants grow – in some areas, this wild growth results in such a thicket of plants that it is almost impossible to push your way through the growth. So it is with the growth of blogs --- so many that it is impossible to read them all. But in the puckerbrush eventually a few plants/trees become dominant and influence all who view them through the thick surrounding puckerbrush. And it is those outstanding blogs whose influence spreads beyond just the surrounding rabble of puckerbrush that I'm honoring.' Terry issued this challenge: Henceforth these awards will be called the Janice Brown Puckerbrush Blog Award for Excellence. All blog authors are hereby challenged to name the ten blogs which have influenced their writing the most and list them as a tribute to Janice --- the Janice Brown Puckerbrush Blog Awards for Excellence.

To the next 10 that very much deserve this award~

Leah at Random Notes
Tammy at Whos your Daddy
Cindy at Everythings Relative
Becky at Kinexxions
Elizabeth at Little Bytes of Life
Terri at The Ties That Bind
Sheri at Twig Talks
Jessica at Jessica's Genejournal
Janet at Janet the Researcher
Cheryl at Two Sides of the Ocean


Thank you for contributing, helping, and making a difference.

Passing the 2009 "Friendly Bloggers Award"

As I promised I am picking 7 deserving Genea-blogs for the 2009 "Friendly Blogger Award".

It is hard to pick just 7, but there are so many wonderful and great Genealogy blogs and as Becky said, it's an honor to be a part of it. We learn so much from each other and the support is amazing. So without further delay (wasn't sure about how to spell 'a doo'!) I present this award to...

Cheryl Rothwell over at Ancestors Hunting

Mary Beaulieu over at Ancestors Tracking

Earline Hines Bradt over at Ancestral Notes

Carole over at Carole's Canvas

Leah Kleyle over at Random Notes

Robin over at Where I Come From

Rosie Cotton over at Whos your Daddy

I love all of your great blogs, please pass it on to 7 more deserving blogs.

Again, thank you Becky and Harriet...you made my day, week and Mother's Day!

My "Friendly Blogger Award" ~ I am very thankful!

Two very good Genea-Friends, Becky at Grace and Glory and Harriet at Genealogy Fun , have award me with the "Friendly Blogger Award". I am smiling ear to ear and very grateful, Becky and Harriet, thank you so very much. This award came at a time I needed cheering up! Things have been a bit rough with Mom in the hospital. I feel honored and I feel that the Genea-blogger Family is so supportive, friendly and amazing and I get to be a part of it, it doesn't get any better than that. Thank you.

I know that I am to pick 7 Genea-blogs for this award, due to the recent events I am asking for a days extension and am calling it a night! We just got home and I logged on to check in and was so surprised.

Along with the drive to Mom's and back and working today and then getting a phone call that my stepdaughter was in labor, it's been a few overwhelming days! We have a new baby girl granddaughter with a full head of hair! She is very precious, this makes 6!! My stepdaughter had to have a C-section but both Mom and baby are great. We are exhausted and I promise after a good nights sleep and after work tomorrow I will pass the award on to 7 very deserving blogs and update you on how Mom is doing.

Thank you Becky and Harriet, you both are so sweet.

One Lovely Blog Award~ What a lucky girl I am!

Once again I am touched and honored, Cheryl over at Heritage Happens has nominated me for the "One Lovely Blog Award", thank you Cheryl, you always put a smile on my face! I too feel special that Cheryl thought enough of my blog to give me this award.

Now, I am asked to to pass this “One Lovely Blog Award” on to seven blogs and their authors. When you receive yours we hope you will take the time to read some new blogs or revisit some of your favorites. Then the instructions are simple - just nominate 7 other blogs. Oh, it so tough, it is always difficult to name just a few...
These are the seven I choose ~

Judith Shubert ~ Genealogy Traces
Cindy Cindy's Place
Thomas McEntee Destination Austin Family
Caroline Family Stories
Leah Random Notes
Travelin Oma Travelin Oma
Virginia Oh Blah Vi, Oh Blah Va

I could keep going, there are so many that deserve this award, hopefully you will stop by others and pass it on.
Thanks again Cheryl, what a surprise and I am still smiling!

I am so Surprised and very Honored!!

I was so surprised and excited that Mysteri at https://heritagehappens.blogspot.com/

picked me to to receive the Kreativ Blogger Award, I am truly a lucky girl. Mysteri is the reason I am here and started blogging! Her support and encouragement helped me to finally create my blog. I thought it would be a long time before I was awarded anything! I have a long way to go before catching up with the other wonderful blogs here.

Thank you Mysteri, thank you very much!

The instructions for the Kreativ Blogger Award are:

1. Copy the award to your site.

2. Link to the person from whom you received the award.

3. Nominate 7 other bloggers. (how to choose only 7!!)

4. Link to those sites on your blog.

5. Leave a message on the blogs you nominate.

My nominees for this award are:

1. Mary at http://familylines.blogspot.com/

2. Kate at http://genealogybugkate.blogspot.com/

3. Carol at http://caroleriley.id.au/

4. Elyse at http://elysesgenes.blogspot.com/

5. Les at http://abitofthepieces.blogspot.com/

6. Mary at http://ancestortracking.blogspot.com/

7. Terri at http://researchingoconnells.blogspot.com/

I agree with Mysteri, it was really tough to only pick 7!

I still have this big smile on my face Mysteri, you made my week, again thank you.