Genealogy

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...

How to create an online community that will survive

My genealogical community, Heycuz, has been around since 1998. That's way back when you had to use a telephone to get online. Today, there are between 900 and 1500 people on it right now. I mean this very second. You can check by the "Who's Online" widget on the front...

Genealogists You Should Have in Your Circle

Google+ is a great asset if you're interested in technology with a steady stream of posts day or night, but what if you're interested in genealogy? Not so much.What is Google + (or Google Plus)? - Well, its everything! Its like a blog, its like Twitter, it's like...

911: I’ve been TAGGED!

Transcript of a 911 call:911 operator: 911 What is your emergency?me: (sob) Please! Please help me!911 operator: What is your address?me: uh, um…let me look….its april at heycuz dot net911 operator: Excuse me?me: my email address? The one they got me at? It is april...

Hit the Road Capt. Jack

Image via WikipediaAre you going to go out of town for the Labor Day weekend? This year, we're getting four days off. We are going to be visiting with some family at least one of the days. So, its a great time to put my new mobile apps to use. I got an iPhone last...

Thanksgiving Traditions

Tyler Florence used to have a show on Food Network where he would help people who were trying to recover a long, lost recipe. People would ask for help on recapturing Grandma's Beef Stew or some other childhood favorite. Taking information about the person's ethnic...

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 side is...

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 year.This year...

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

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 stories,...

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 stories,...

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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 Internet...

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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 nothing will be...

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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 HeartThe recent problems I have had with making our regularly scheduled updates to the Heycuz website has got me to thinking...Daydreaming really....

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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 banshees up...

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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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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...

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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...

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