Posts should resume in about ONE MONTH

I've not posted on my blog in a year and a half. I had returned to work and for that first year away from my blog, was working to convert 60,000 patient records and a doctor's office to a digital system. It was extremely time consuming, but successful. Last January, after declaring the conversion project complete, I left to return to teaching. I've been an interim teacher in a Memphis City School, teaching 8th graders Algebra and PreAlgebra. The school year will be over the end of May 2011, and I'm not planning to return for the fall. This SHOULD mean I will again have time to devote to the blog. All along, I've stayed active in the Tennessee Genealogical Society by teaching classes and holding the once a month Let's Discuss It sessions; held three regional Towne Family Association meetings/get-togethers and worked with my husband on an ongoing class action he's handling. I look forward to being able to have more genealogy time. See you in a month!!
Deb

2009 Towne Family Association Meeting

The TOWNE FAMILY ASSOCIATION, INC. is a not-for-profit educational genealogical organization founded in 1980. Members are the descendants of William and Joanna (Blessing) Towne who came to America from Great Yarmouth, England and settled in Salem, MA about 1635. The couple had eight children and TFA includes descendants of both the male and female lines. TFA website: http://www.townefolk.com

Towne Family Association Meeting
September 25-27, 2009
To be held at:
Best Western Wynwood Hotel and Suites
580 US Hwy 1 Bypass
Portsmouth, NH 03801
603-436-7600

Hotel reservations must be made directly with the hotel at the above number.

For more info on the meeting, folks are to contact:
Rev. Dr. Barry Cass
20 Springfield Rd
Somers, CT 06071
revbcass@aol.com

To register for the TFA Meeting, folks are to contact:
Wilber Purvis
2214 SW Spence St
Troutdale, OR 97060-3119
greshamwil@aol.com

I'm Still Here

I'm not finished with the Lyon County Kentucky Lunatic Inquest records. I've just been busy, so don't forget about me. I'll be posting again soon.

Debbie

Weekly Genealogy Blogging Prompt #3

Okay. I'll give it a try. This week I'm going to go through my pictures and come up with ones to post on:

Sweet Sunday
Mother's Monday
Tombstone Tuesday
Wordless Wednesday
Trying Thursday (or maybe a better adjective will happen before Thursday!!)
Funny Friday
Silly Saturday

Eight Things About Me - MEME

Elizabeth at Little Bytes of Life tagged me for the new-old meme, "Eight Things About Me." Gee thanks Elizabeth!

Here are the rules:

*Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
*Write a blog post about these eight things and post these rules.
*At the end of the blog post, list eight people to get tagged.
*Leave a comment on their blogs telling them they have been tagged.

Here are my entries:

1. I have 3 great children and 2 terrific grandchildren and a nice guy for a husband/friend.
   
2. I live in Tennessee.
   
3. My degree is in straight math, NOT math education.
   
4. I was a software engineer for many years.
   
5. I was a high school math and computer science teacher for many years.
   
6. I am now a full time office manager of a medical office.
   
7. I really, really hate shopping - no clue where my daughter got her lust for shopping, but I'm really glad she likes to shop this time of year and is willing to do MINE!!.
   
8. I'm definitely a nerd and unapologetic
   

Well, I went to choose my eight victims, I mean fellow bloggers, but most of them had already been "tagged" for this meme, so I'm going to give a holiday gift to all the blogs I follow - Brenda, Tina, Riley, David ..... and NOT tag you, besides, my iGoogle RSS feeds aren't updating this week and I need to figure out why before I miss any of the new posts!!

Seminar This Weekend in Germantown, TN

The Tennessee Genealogical Society is having a FALL HOME-GROWN SEMINAR this Saturday, November 8, 2008 at the Pickering Center. The Pickering Center is located at 7771 Poplar Pike, just east of Germantown High School. It's a "home-grown" seminar because we're not bringing in any speakers this year. We're using our own "home-grown" speakers. The schedule is as followings:

9AM-9:30 Registration
9:30 AM - 9:45 Welcome
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Session I: Migration Patterns into the Mid-South - by Jim Bobo
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM Morning Break
11:00 AM - Noon Session II: Using the Internet for Genealogical Research: Beyond the Basics - by Debbie Atchley
Noon - 1:15PM Lunch
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Session III: Using DNA in Genealogical Research: The Basics - by Beverly Crawford
2:15PM - 2:30 PM Wrap Up

Attendance is free for Tennessee Genealogical Society Members and $10.00 for non-members.

It's Nice To Be Noticed

The "award" was sent to me by Linda Stienstra. You can see her blog here:
From Axer To Ziegler

The rules of the "award" are:

• can put the logo on his/her blog
  
• must link to the person who gave the award
  
• must nominate seven other blogs and link to them
  
• must leave a comment on each of the nominated blogs
  

Seven blogs that I read regularly are:

1. Brenda Jerome's Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog
   
2. Pat Richley's Dear Myrtle Blog
   
3. Dick Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter ; Maybe not technicallly a blog, but I follow it daily by making it one of my RSS feeds.
   
4. Randy Seaver's Genea-Musings
   
5. Chris Dunham's The Genealogue
   
6. A whole staff of folks at Engadget
   
7. Another staff at TechCrunch
   

There are several podcasts I listen to weekly; several photography sites I check frequently; two of my children have blogs with excellent writing, art and photography; several other technical blogs I follow. It was hard to pick my top seven. I LOVE the net. I learn so much every day!!

Thanks again Linda.
Debbie