Lion’s Share Commitment to the Library of Congress
Today, to encourage and support valuable programs that closely relate to Family Forest® objectives, the Family Forest® Project is making what should become another very substantial commitment. From now...
View ArticleLion’s Share for the Daughters of the American Revolution
I am very grateful for what the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) has done, and is doing. In fact, had it not been for the DAR, I may have never created the Family Forest®. My Aunt Marge was a...
View ArticleYour Relationship to Downton Abbey
How surprised would you be to discover that you have actual family ties to Downton Abbey? Could having that knowledge increase your enjoyment of the show? For a limited time, this is your chance to...
View ArticleNiall of the Nine Hostages to Russell Crowe
Because my on-line time is usually limited to less than 15 minutes per day, I rely heavily on my long time friend Tom Nocera to keep me informed about key and trending items relating to the Family...
View ArticleNew Portal Into Genealogical Entertainment
Many thanks to our friend Tom Nocera who has just created a fun resource that we would like to share with you. It is a visual window into a decade and a half of short stories about surprising...
View ArticleMissionary Aviation Fellowship (MAF)
Rev. Al Harlow of the Waikoloa Community Church has inspired us to do more. From now until Christmas 2014, we will be giving the lion’s share (more than half) of all sales revenues from one of our key...
View ArticleFamily Forest® Family Ties of AMC’s TURN
I am very excitedly looking forward to the return of AMC’s TURN, and almost two decades of strategically growing the Forest Family® has been fueling my excitement. One of the central characters is...
View ArticleAncestral Gold
If you were Prince William or Prince Harry, of course you would have grown up expecting to see the faces of your ancestors on coins. After all, their paternal grandmother’s face appears on more coins...
View ArticleHistory Pivots on Small Events
As I am searching daily through the vast collection of fascinating nooks and crannies of recorded history waiting to be explored (and leaving a well-marked digital trail to the discoveries found...
View ArticleClosest Celebrity Cousins
As I am prone to do while we are Networking Family History with Hollywood™, I often watch Turner Classic Movies and programs in search of interesting characters to lineage link into the vast network of...
View ArticleThe Second Question of Genealogy
You can easily spend years of time, and lots of money, searching for answers to the first question of genealogy: “Who are my ancestors?” What you will end up with, hopefully, is a number of...
View ArticleOh Lord, won’t you buy me ……
You are correct about Janis Joplin, but not about a Mercedes-Benz. This time it’s about Janis’ classic 1965 Porsche 356c Cabriolet, with a jaw-dropping custom paint job, and it will be auctioned by...
View ArticleSix Miles to Shore
Family Forest Connection Service I can’t stop thinking about a Family Forest® connection service I recently completed for a young lady from California. It was memorable to me for several reasons,...
View ArticleYour Ancestral Heritage in a Landfill
Now into my third decade growing the Family Forest® connection service, I can’t begin to count how many times I’ve heard variations on the very same story. It goes like this. My ________ (parent,...
View ArticleFast Forward to Tombstone Arizona
Once upon a time, there was a Knight. He was of Claverham Manor in Arlington, Sussex, England. Many of Sir Thomas Fiennes ancestors were also Knights. A number of his ancestors in the first ten...
View ArticleMike Huckabee is Related to Spies and a Traitor
Kristine and I have been big fans of AMC’s TURN since the first episode, and our interest in some of its characters reaches back to George Washington’s Lower Part. When Kristine was looking last night...
View ArticleFamily Forest® Family Ties of AMC’s TURN
I am very excitedly looking forward to the return of AMC’s TURN, and almost two decades of strategically growing the Forest Family® has been fueling my excitement. One of the central characters is...
View ArticleAncestral Gold
If you were Prince William or Prince Harry, of course you would have grown up expecting to see the faces of your ancestors on coins. After all, their paternal grandmother’s face appears on more coins...
View ArticleHistory Pivots on Small Events
As I am searching daily through the vast collection of fascinating nooks and crannies of recorded history waiting to be explored (and leaving a well-marked digital trail to the discoveries found...
View ArticleClosest Celebrity Cousins
As I am prone to do while we are Networking Family History with Hollywood™, I often watch Turner Classic Movies and programs in search of interesting characters to lineage link into the vast network of...
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