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    Ancestry.com 15th Anniversary Sweepstakes

    Win Daily Prizes with Ancestry.com 15th Anniversary Sweepstakes 

    Starting October 1st, Ancestry.com will celebrate its 15th Anniversary with 15 days of free databases and a sweepstakes giveaway with prizes awarded everyday!  The Sweepstakes Grand Prize will be a chance to go behind the scenes of an episode of Who Do You Think You Are, meet Executive Producer Lisa Kudrow,  the celebrity guest, and see how the show is made. PLUS, tons of prizes throughout the Anniversary!!!! 
    Ancestry.com 15th Anniversary Sweepstakes
  • family historian, family tree, Genealogy

    20% off Family Tree Maker

    Get 20% off Family Tree Maker 2012 at Ancestry.com ends in 2 days. It isn’t to late to get this discount on the latest, improved software. You can still search for all the wonderful resources through Ancestry.com as before.Features will include


    TreeSync — lets you easily synchronize your tree in Family Tree Maker with an online Ancestry.com tree.
    Access and update your tree anywhere. Continue your research wherever you are whether it’s through your computer, Ancestry.com, even your iPhone or iPad.

    Easily share your tree with your family, and even work on it together. Your family and friends can view the online version of your tree without any software or a subscription. They just login with their name and email and they can always see the latest version of your tree, and can even work on adding to it if you’d like them to.

    Collaborate with the largest, most active family history community in the world. You can keep your online tree private or make it public so that others researching your family can always find the latest version of your research. You may connect with others who have insight on your ancestors or even rare photos to share with you. And you may even find relatives you didn’t know you had.

    Blended family view — shows combined families, including stepfamilies and adoptees at a glance.

    Improved Smart Stories — give you new tools for adding and editing details.

    Chart personalization — lets you personalize charts by adding text and displaying generation labels such as parents, grandparents and great–grandparents.

    Index of individuals report — lists every individual in your tree, plus their birth, marriage and death dates.

    Customized fact sentences — let you change wording and choose what data is included in sentences that Family Tree Maker generates for certain reports and Smart Stories.
    Descendent charts between two people — make it easy to choose two individuals in your tree and create a descendant chart that shows their relationship.



    Family Tree Maker 2012

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    Get 20% Off of Family Tree Maker 2012

    Get 20% off Family Tree Maker 2012 at Ancestry.com

    There are 12 more days til the offical release of the newest software which will allow you to sync your trees with distant relatives. I am still waiting, not so patiently for my copy of FTM 2012. Am really excited to see the enhancements of the new software. This 20% offer ends in 12 days on September 28, 2011.


    Family Tree Maker 2012

  • family historian, research

    Using Google Books

    This was part of the Google for Genealogists package that Family Tree University is offering this month. The instructors there are really helpful in finding ways to solve brick walls or other area’s to search. This video is by Allison Stacey an Instructor at Family Tree University. Right now they are having a special on the Google for Genealogists package.

  • family historian, family reunions, family tree, preserving photos

    Sharing Memories, Solving Mysteries

    It’s been a few days since I had the chance to post more on Genealogy.  I had the chance to visit my Aunt and Cousins that live in another State. My Aunt has all the photographs, letters, post cards, and documents that Grandma had saved through the years. My Aunt had found report cards from grade school that were Grandma’s. They were in wonderful condition, and Great Grandma Ula’s signature was still on the back. These were report cards from Grade 3rd to Grade 6th, at St. Mary’s School.

    There didn’t seem to be enough time to go through all the wonderful photographs, read all the letters, and post cards that had been collected through the years. We had found letter from Nancy Ola Akin that she had wrote to my Grandma when she was just starting out as a young mom. I can hardly wait until the scanner is working and we can scan more than I was able to during my visit. They live 10 hours away, so getting there is a challenge at times. Here are a few boxes that we were going through.

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    At 1 AM as we were putting everything away I noticed an envelope from Bubbles- Edna. She has worked very hard on the family tree from the Durbin side and has shared with everyone the same information. Or we thought. We opened it and right away there was the Obituary and copies of old photographs of Fredrick Augustus Durbin. My Grandma’s Grandfather who passed away when she was a couple months old. I had never seen nor was able to find much about Fredrick Augustus Durbin other than he was a Wire Carrier during the turn of the Century. And here was his obituary, photographs, more than I could have hoped to find. 
     
    Fredrick A. Durbin Obituary. I will transcribed and add this later so that everyone can see his story. 

    Photo of Fredrick A. Durbin, with Wife  Mae Augustas Williams Durbin, and son Fredrick R. Durbin. Scrapping these are going to be a lot of fun. Don’t forget My Memory Digital Scrapbooking Giveaway ends on Saturday. I have been using My Memories this week for quick pages.

     

  • family historian, family reunions, family tree, preserving memories, preserving photos, scrapbooking

    My Memories Digital Scrapbooking Giveaway!!!!!- Closed


    I am SO EXCITED to be hosting a giveaway for
            My Memories Digital Scrapbooking!!!!
    I have used My Memories Suite Digital Scrapbooking in the past, long before I got my current laptop. Still use it occasionally on my Dinosaur desk top that runs Windows 2000, yes OLD! Between my desk top, Laptop, external hard drive, I have over 
    43, 000 photos and still counting. 
    Digital Cameras have added such value to our lives, the instant access to our memories. We can share them everywhere, Facebook, Twitter, Flikr, e-mail instantly with loved ones. Now even our cell phones carry these cute photo moments. What to do with all these photos? They are already in your computer and you don’t have to spend hours cutting, cropping, finding the space to store the photos safe.  My Memories Digital Scrapbooking allows convenience, and has many designs to play with.
    With My Memories Digital Scrapbooking you can make Invitations, Cards, Scrapbooking Pages, Announcements and SO MUCH more!




    My Memories Digital Scrapbooking is giving one of my lucky readers their complete My Memories Digital Scrapbooking Suite for FREE!!!! This software retails for $40! The My Memories Suite Software can use on a PC or Mac. The software has design tools that help you build entire albums effortlessly using one of the many installed templates or designing your own pages from scratch.


    Even though only one of you will win the software for free, all of my other wonderful readers will get a $10 Discount on the software using our promo code STMMMS36408. That is a fantastic deal for the My Memories Digital Scrapbooking Suite!



    Here’s how to Enter


    To Enter the Giveaway you MUST follow THIS blog via Google Friend Connect(GFC) on the right. Click the “blue follow” tab on the sidebar. Then share how many family photos you want to preserve. If you’re like me and have a digital camera- there probably are thousands of precious memories. 🙂


    Want Extra Chances to Win?


    Extra Entry 1: Visit My Memories then come back and share with me which digital paper pack was your favorite.


    Extra Entry 2: Share this post on with your friends on Twitter, or Facebook, or Blog- share link here. (3 possible entries)

    Extra Entry 3: Like Dawns Delights on Network Blogs


    Extra Entry 4: Follow My Memories on Twitter.


    Extra Entry 5: “Like” My Memories on Facebook




    It’s all in the Details!


    ~Leave a separate comment for each entry.


    ~Winner will be drawn August 20, 2011 @ 9:00pm MST

    ~ Winner will be drawn through Random.org.


    ~Winner will be announced on August 21, 2011


    ~If I can’t reach you through your GFC email, check back here on Sunday, August 21, 2011. You’ll have 72 hours to claim your prize.




    My Memories is also offering my readers a $10 Discount on their purchase of My Memories Suite v2 Software! Copy and paste the promo code STMMMS36408 in the promotional code field on the shopping cart page. The software also comes with another $10 coupon for Downloads. That’s $20 in Discounts!!!

  • digital scrapbooking, family historian, Genealogy, preserving photos, savings

    Versatile Blog Award

    A Thank you to Terri from Mom’s Point of View for awarding me “The Versatile Blogger Award.” This is my first blog award and am honored to be selected. Thank you Terri!!!

    I’m very happy that Terri has been a reader of my blog. I have enjoyed reading her blog, so please check her’s out.

    The rules after accepting the Versatile Blogger Award are:

    1. Thank the person who gave the award and link back to them in your post.

    2. Share 7 things about yourself.

    3. Pass this award along to 15 recently discovered blogs.

    7 things about me:

    1. I love my family and friends, they inspire me daily 🙂

    2. I love all Crafts, but can’t sew, knit, or crochet.

    3. I love the sound of rain.

    4. I created a porcelain doll that looks like my oldest son. Won at the NM State Fair 2 ribbons for the doll. Beginner’s Doll Guild- 1st place and 2nd Place

    5. I love Couponing and saving money.

    6. I am a Cafemom.com Frugalista Moderator

    7. I love traveling…

    15 blogs I am passing this award to that really rock the web are:

    1. KathyBs Little Corner

    2. Kathy’s Crafts

    3. Karber’s Blog

    4. Randomosity

    5. Tennessee Honey

    6. The Queen of Swag

    7. Under A Cherry Tree

    8. Scraptastical Kreations

    9. Blogging Biz Mom

    10. Getting Cricky with K Andrews

    11. A day in my Life

    12. Dazzling Daily Deals

    13. Granite in My Blood

    14. Crazy for Paper Crafts

    15. Mom’s Online Garage Sale

    These are only a few of the fabulous blogs that I follow, please check them and my following list out for more creative ladies.

  • family historian, family tree, My memories, preserving photos

    Digital Family History Pages

    My Grandma left behind many different photographs that she had collected through the years. It has been fun adding new digital enhancements to these memories. I wanted to share a couple that I have added to Daisy Trail scrapbooking. It is a software I use for my current photos, and was curious if older photo’s would look just as great. They have so many different formats, so many different designs to work with. I decided on the Swirling Memories Template. Here are the 2 pages I have done and exported to JPG for sharing online. I can change the colors, the font, the layout, everything, and print out later on.

    Joy, Ula, and Roy Akin- Children of Gip and Nancy Akin

    Coffee Sisters, Nancy Coffee Akin, Mattie Coffee Randell, and Mattie Coffee…. Seeing women in pants, truly women before their time.

    I used Serif – Software with Imagination and CraftArtist Platinum Edition – Get the ultimate creativity for all your print projects to create these layouts.

  • Christmas, family historian, family reunions, family tree, preserving memories, preserving photos

    Editing your Photographs.

    It is so important to select the right photo editing software program to preserve your most treasured family memories. Rather you are editing photographs, old family videos on those VHS tapes. That are in the back of the closet waiting to be watched, memories of get together, reunions. With Serif you can work with a user friendly software to preserve those precious memories.

    This past Christmas I got the Serif PhotoPlus X3, I was a little intimidated at first. I have tons of software programs, and get lost with complicated features.

    Here is the first photograph I worked with, it wasn’t of family but of a road I travel down. The trees along that road are amazing and there was a deep fog that morning. With the editing I removed the street light and brightened it. There is another not so good fuzzy photo on the same day. Taking photos of fog is a challenging task, so I was happy with the second picture. Especially after I had edited it through Serif.

    Serif doesn’t limited to photo editing software, but has a variety of software available for every need.

    They offer WebPlus-Professional Quality Websites Made Easy, Movie Plus-High Definition Video editing, PagePlus-Professional Desktop Publishing, PhotoPlus-Powerful Digital Photo Editing, DrawPlus-powerful Drawing and Graphics, Webplue Essentials-the fun, fast & easy website builder, and many more to meet your everyday need. You could build a family sharing website, share documents from other family far away. Design those amazing family reunion invitations. The creativity is limitless.

    I am sharing the Youtube.com video from Serif, I am really glad that my family thought of this wonderful gift for me last Christmas.


    image: PagePlus X5