April Pastis

Happy New Year

Well, we finally did it. After 13 years in our new home town we bought a home. Thanks to everyone who's supported us over the years. In addition to the new home, 2019 was quite the year for us. Lucas received his Master's Degree from Cal State Northridge. We're so...

Ultimate Comfort Food on this Nerve Racking Election Day

Latest polls all show that people are losing sleep over this election, so no matter how you vote here’s some lovin’ from mom’s cookbook: her famous, award-winning lasagna. May it bring you comfort while you watch today’s polls. 1 lb hamburger...

Mom’s Chicken and Dumplings

My brother Shane asked me for this after I posted this pic of my bowl of Chicken and Dumplings: 1 Stewed Chicken 1 1/2 cup self-rising flour Pot with chicken broth (reserve1/2 cup hot broth) Debone the chicken, put aside. Bring broth to a boil. Take 1/2 cup broth and...

On a College Campus? Don’t Try to Tell a Joke

It really is becoming a little ridiculous, when the one place where alternative ideas should be free are being muffled. Carlos Mencia, Jerry Seinfeld, Larry the Cable Guy, Chris Rock…even Bill Maher will no longer speak on college campuses. So, when I read this,...

WILLIS – SMOKESCREEN still sooooo sexy aww-a-aww

Years ago, Fiat released a Superbowl commercial with this song, and ever since then I was hooked. Still one of my most-played songs on iTunes. It’s not on Apple music yet, hmmm.

Van Morrison and Mick Hucknall, “Streets of Arklow” – 25 Best Songs of 2015 So Far | Rolling Stone

Essential tracks by cheese divas, thug romantics and punk scruffs Source: Van Morrison and Mick Hucknall, “Streets of Arklow” – 25 Best Songs of 2015 So Far | Rolling Stone I am so out of the loop as far as my music listening these days. There is...

Centaur is Fantastic

CENTAUR by H.E. Fairbanks My rating: 5 of 5 stars I confess, I abandoned this genre years ago finding it too formulaic to waste any more of my precious time. So, when I finished reading Centaur by HE Fairbanks, I simply had to write a review. This book is the best...

Introduction to Administering Your Website

This is a quick introduction on accessing the administration area of your website.   This is a short overview on the areas of your website’s Administration area. It includes information on the front control panel, the tool bar, the Administrator menu, and where...

Happy Ada Lovelace Day

Image via Wikipedia I have been fortunate enough to have had many wonderful women in my life who each left an impression on me in some way. But today, in honor of Ada Lovelace Day, I’m sharing a few of the women who inspired me.  Ada Lovelace was the worlds...

We’ve Moved, again

You may have noticed that something’s a bit different about Heycuz. We have moved to a new server. I had to do a little reshuffling of my finances and could no longer afford to keep 12 different servers but had to combine them to decrease the bills. The down...

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Happy New Year!

It seems that about this time of year I’m stunned with the fact that another year has gone by. I take stock and wonder if I’ve done enough, or if there was something that I would have done differently, and attempt to set resolutions for the coming...

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Merry Christmas Cousins!

They say that every seven seconds or so, the phrase ‘Merry Christmas” is posted on the internet. Well let me join in on the Chorus and wish all of you a very, merry Christmas! Your cuz, April

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Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Greetings and glad tidings ~ May this message find you well and thriving! This season, we celebrate a lot of changes at heycuz.net. Together, we have co-created a new wave of genealogy.  Thank you for joining us on this amazing journey, for sharing your family...

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Time to Go Ahead

My first editor taught me that there’s a time to stop editing and go to press. I know there are still bugs in the system, but hopefully I can work them out and still have much of this site online. So far, known bugs include pages not loading correctly in...

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Website Update and Suggestions Requested

I’m so excited about the website update. I wish that you all could see it, but I have to keep it offline for now, because when I set it to run, the old website will be wiped clean for the new installation. Don’t worry, I’ve backed up the old stuff so...

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Dreamware

Wishin’ and Hopin’, Thinkin’ and Prayin’Plannin’ and Schemin’ Each Night from the StartThat Won’t Get You into His Heart The recent problems I have had with making our regularly scheduled updates to the Heycuz website has got...

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Busy, Busy Summer

Hi Cousins, I hope everyone had a great summer and is ready to share all their genealogical research they found! My family had a very busy summer starting with the graduation of our son from middle school in June. Since then we’ve been running around like...

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Family Photos – Arggggh!

Everyone knows that I love photographs of our ancestors. Seeing the family resemblance in a photograph taken a hundred years ago sends chills up my back. Once, in wondering if a branch of the family was really mine, I stumbled across a photo of a civil war soldier and...

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