Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 25 April to 1 May 2021
Scores of genealogy and family history bloggers write thousands of posts every week about their research, their families, and their interests. I appreciate each one of them and their efforts.
My criteria for Best of . are pretty simple - I pick posts that advance knowledge about genealogy and family history, address current genealogy issues, provide personal family history, are funny or are poignant. I don t list posts destined for daily blog prompts or meme submissions (but I do include summaries of them), or my own posts.
Here are my picks for great reads from the genealogy blogs for this past week:
I am a native San Diegan, a graduate of San Diego State University, a retired aerospace engineer, a genealogist and a family guy.
My wife (Angel Linda) and I have two lovely daughters, and five darling grandchildren. We love to visit them and have them visit us.
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Janis Pyle: Visualizing 570,299 lives lost to COVID-19
Janis Pyle, Guest Columnist
Until a recent breakthrough experience, I could only begin to comprehend the ever-growing number on the righthand panel of my TV screen, the U.S. deaths from COVID-19.
As I write this on the morning of April 22, it reads 570,299, according to CNN.
Understanding the magnitude of our collective loss and tending my personal grief have been a necessary passage before fully entering Life after The Lockdown.
Others’ attempts to give face and voice to individual victims have helped along my process of fathoming the loss. Among them:
Nicole Wallace’s daily segments on MSNBC, “Remembering Lives Well-Lived,” often move me to tears.
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William McRaven, a retired US admiral, is making a children s book about becoming a Navy SEAL and the lessons learned from the trials.
The book is an adaptation of the former special operations commander s bestseller Make Your Bed.
McRaven said he hopes it is similar to the stories of adventure and overcoming challenges he read to his kids.
Retired Adm. William McRaven, a former Navy SEAL and special operations commander, is making a children s book about his experiences and lessons learned from them.
The book, Make Your Bed with Skipper the Seal, is an adaptation of the 2017 bestseller Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life . And Maybe the World for kids that includes life lessons from Navy SEAL training, publisher Little, Brown, and Company said.