If you are like many who trace roots in the state of Mississippi, you may have run across the blogs of Terry Thorton. He has a great writing style and provides some wonderful content. Back in July some unfortunate events took place over at the Genealogy Wise website.  I blogged about the whoe thing being professionally patched up back on July 17th post titled “Formal apology from Genealogy Wise“. The whole thing kept bilding up even outside the GW site until it eventually led to Terry removing all of his wonderful blogs.

Imagine how excited I was this weekend to get en email from Terry letting me know that he is making a return to the blogging world! In his email he said, “The new version of Hill Country is called Terry Thornton’s Hill Country of Monroe County Mississippi and is accessible through links at HILL COUNTRY H.O.G.S. WEBPRESS. The url for the HC HOGS WebPress is http://hillcountryhogswebpress.blogspot.com/“
So spread the word that Terry is back! Welcome back sir!

Well I took some time this weekend to go down to the Salt Lake Family History Expo in Sandy, Utah. I am so glad I did. This event, like all others done by Family History Expos, was a pleasure to attend. Holly, Kimberly and Janene (and the rest of the crew) always work hard to [...]

OK, So if you are always on the record hunt like me, you have probably looked at Word Vital Records. I have been a subscriber to a few different sites for a while, I’m not a snob, I’ll take records wherever i can get them. I will admit I have always been shy of paying [...]

Personally, I am really excited about the Family History Expo coming to Sandy, Utah. It is just a tad south of Salt Lake City and really close to a lot of great research resources. Family History Expos ( http://www.fhexpos.com ) is one of my favorite groups that puts on the genealogy conferences. I have been [...]

I stopped into the BYU genealogy conference for today only. It is a four day conference. It starts today and runs through Friday. I always love coming to the conferences and making new friends. The classes always teach me something new. Today when I came in, they even scanned me for the swine flu just [...]

Today came a formal apology from Paul Allen, CEO of Genealogy Wise, to Terry Thornton. Terry was the user who was the center of the “censorship” issues that I blogged about yesterday. In that post I did mention my respect for Paul Allen and his contribution to both the genealogy and social communities. In a [...]

Janet Hovorka, the Chart Chick, over at Generation maps is running a great contest through 5pm (not sure what time zone) today. She is giving away 1 $25 gift certificate for a person drawn from her Facebook group, and 1 $25 gift certificate drawn from her Genealogywise group. Even more exciting, tomorrow at 5pm she’ll [...]

Genealogy Wise pulls their contest after membership out cry. I must admit I’m shocked, yet actually proud of them. http://www.genealogywise.com/notes/Contest_Has_Been_Withdrawn I think they are getting some good natural organic growth. I think contests are healthy, this one just needed to be structured a little better. Stay tuned for more details…

So I have been on Genealogy Wise for a week now. They are celebrating their one week birthday. As with any new site they have had some growing pains. Some I understand, some have been down right irritating. I have to say so far though I have been enjoying the community. Once I configured my [...]

Just after I wrote my last post about a genealogy study program, I remembered how awesome half.com and ebay.com have been for my genealogy research in the past. I have a bad habit of craving books that I find mentioned in people’s sourcing. Whenever the book might have details about my family I want them. [...]