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Issue 34.15 Using FamilySearch Family Tree https://familysearch.org/tree/ Look in the Research Help section on the right of the person’s page. Research Suggestions with the purple icon will provide ideas of what needs to be done for the ancestor. Use possible duplicates on the person age for someone who is missing parents, a spouse, or children, […] Issue 34.15 With school back in session and Labor Day just a week or two away, it’s time to reflect on an eventful summer at Spring Gardens. It all kicked off with the 2nd annual “Senior Rodeo” in May. This event featured wheelchair barrel racing, horseback riding and games. An old-fashioned photo booth captured shots […] Issue 34.15 I recently returned from a family vacation to California. While we were there, my brother had a toothache. Not just any toothache – an incredibly painful, vacation –altering toothache. He had been to see a dentist in his hometown a few weeks earlier. His dentist had performed a root canal and had assured […] Issue 34.15 Eighty years ago, on August 14, 1935; President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law. The new law guaranteed a basic income for retirees and, at the time, the unemployed. Over the years, Social Security has expanded its safety net to provide benefits for retirees, people with disabilities and the […] Issue 33.15 There is an interesting development that has come out of the free release of Windows 10 (only free for legal users of Windows 7 and 8). While computers with Windows 10 pre-installed are now on the shelves in places such as Costco, Staples and Best Buy, most of the installations of the new […] Issue 33.15 Doing family history is fun and challenging. Here are some ideas to be efficient and have a rewarding experience. At https://familysearch.org/ask/ you can find the Help Center and customer service to get help anytime. You can let someone you trust enter your family history information for you onto FamilySearch.org, or do it yourself. […] Issue 33.15 Have you ever wondered how a prescription drug, non-prescription or devices makes it to the market? Well, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), through many, many years of research they have come up with a well-orchestrated process for the makers of drugs to follow. Drug companies develop many new drugs in a […] Issue 33.15 Well, it looks like we are underway in the process of choosing a new president. The nationally televised debate last week of some of the Republican contenders marks the beginning of the public process, though some of these people have been campaigning for months or even years. As in all debates, the candidates […] Issue 33.15 An article recently published on-line in The New York Times by Katharine Q. Seelye caught my attention. Entitled “Obituaries Shed Euphemisms to Chronicle Toll of Heroin,” this feature focuses on the growing trend of writing obituaries in a candid manner. The article specifically deals with death as a result of addiction to heroin […] Issue 33.15 My father told me a long time ago that it is often better to test the water in a river for temperature and depth, with series of small steps than to jump right in with a huge leap. This advice has served me well in fly fishing, the Provo, Green, and San Juan […] |
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