Category Archives: Family Research

Free Daily Webinars in April!

Posted on April 1, 2020 by debbiemieszala

Would you like some good news?

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Free (limited time) Webinar Recording: “The Five-story Fall”

Posted on March 23, 2019 by debbiemieszala

I had great fun presenting a Board for Certification of Genealogists series webinar for Legacy Family Tree Webinars on Tuesday (March 19th).

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FamilySearch Communities

Posted on May 20, 2018 by debbiemieszala

FamilySearch recently added a community feature, and it is free! The community area offers forums in which to ask or to answer questions, to upload documents for translation assistance, and to find links to related resources, such as foreign word … Continue reading →

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Records of the Skies: Obtaining Airplane Records

Posted on December 28, 2017 by debbiemieszala

My last post featured tracing a former “family” airplane to its modern owner in order to share photographs and information. Tracing a family artifact, no matter the size, helps to flesh out fragmented stories, produces facts to weave into a … Continue reading →

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Hope

Posted on December 25, 2017 by debbiemieszala

The tiny Ercoupe caught my father’s eye in 1950. In 2017, that seventy-one-year-old airplane reminded me of the goodness in others. Of hope. 

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Relocating for Religion: The Christian Catholic Church and “The Leaves of Healing”

Posted on December 16, 2017 by debbiemieszala

Faith healing. A flat earth. The promise of a Utopian society.[1] If not for a religious sect whose doctrine makes me squirm, I would not be alive.

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Cherished Tokens

Posted on August 25, 2017 by debbiemieszala

We first bagged those things that made my mother appear familiar. It was a logical place to begin. Her clothing was nearest the door. Discarding and donating the clothes of a dead woman has its ghosts.

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