North Carolina Genealogy

I ran across fyneart.com this evening and it reminded me of one of the things I’ve wanted to have done SOME time. Have a painting done. Maybe this is a throwback to watching historically based tv shows where there were houses full of paintings of family members, but I’ve always wanted to see about having paintings done of my family. Yes, we have some pictures, but if you compare a photo and a portrait painting side by side, there’s something more…. enchanting about a painted portrait.

Anyway, fyneart.com is apparently located in the UK, so I wondered what options there were here in the US….

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Popular Baby Names in the Year 2000

November 25th, 2008

Here’s a listing of the most popular baby names from the year 2000:

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Popular Name Series

November 18th, 2008

Primarily Using information from the Social Security Administration I thought I would start a series of popular baby names for various years. (I’m going to pick mostly census years, although I thought I’d start with the current year.) I’m going to be alternating the posts between here and my South Carolina Genealogy Site, so pop over there if you can’t find the year you’re looking for here.

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Picasa 3 | Facial Recognition and the Family Genealogist

November 11th, 2008

I’ve posted a quick article over at South Carolina Genealogy about the new Picasa version and what use it could be for the Family Genealogist in organizing pictures of family members. The big feature of interest is facial recognition (you do have to label some to start with, or hope others have labeled and shared their picture name tags.) This is a component of the Picasa Web Albums.

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