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 stories,...
Genealogy
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 Internet...
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 nothing will be...
Dreamware
Wishin' and Hopin', Thinkin' and Prayin'Plannin' and Schemin' Each Night from the StartThat Won't Get You into His HeartThe recent problems I have had with making our regularly scheduled updates to the Heycuz website has got me to thinking...Daydreaming really....
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 banshees up...
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...
1940 Census, Doomsday, and April Fool’s (It’s no Joke!)
Genealogists have long sought the early release of the next census and, with the additions to the questions asked on the 1940 census, this one promises to be a doozy. That is, if your grandparents didn't boycott it. The new questions, income and fertility for example,...
Netiquette
Recently, my mother included the Heycuz newsgroup in the address list in an email. An easy mistake given my email address is similar, april@heycuz.net. The problem was that the email contained a political message, favoring Democrats. The fallout from our right-leaning...
Welcome
As the webhost, I get a lot of queries and while I try my best to help find your missing ancestors, I am only one person. Here's a chance to increase your odds by posting your queries directly to all of the members of Heycuz, some who've been doing research for over...