So, remember that last post I shared in August? The one when I apologized for missing one of my weekly posts? The one when I promised that I could--I would--keep up with it all? Ha. Let me tell you about my first year of teaching. I'm not sure I had an accurate idea back then [...]
So, I dropped the ball. Because for one year, I was writing a post every Friday about my newest find of the week. And this week? I didn't. I know what I wanted to write about--I found a few records indicating that one of my relatives spent the last years of his life in an [...]
Elnora (Smith) Johnson & Olive (Smith) Keibler
One year ago today, I published my first post on Applegate Genealogy; it was a story about a found family photo that led me to my great-great-grandparents and sparked my interest in family history. Since then, I've published 167 stories on this blog (well, to be fair, one-third of those are Wordless Wednesday photos), met [...]
I'm a teacher. In training. I've referenced my teaching job in a half-dozen posts on the blog before--in posts highlighting the stories of my schoolteacher ancestors or reflecting on the post-graduation period when I was trying to find the motivation to study for the Praxis--but I haven't shared what I do exactly. Back in September, my [...]
