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Add an Alert Note to FamilySearch to Connect with Future Researchers

Image: rawpixel.com   After I've written a blog post on a particular ancestor, I like to add a link to the post to the Memories section of a person's FamilySearch Family Tree profile. Recently I had a revelation about something else I could do to ensure my family stories and research are shared in the future. It occurred to me that I could leave an Alert Note on my own Family Search Family Tree profile directing individuals to this blog, Leaves on the Tree, after I am gone. If the goal of my blog is to record my memories, research, family stories, and more, this alert is one way future researchers might be able to find those stories—assuming Blogger is still around. I don't often think about my own FamilySearch profile, and when I looked at my page, it was pretty skimpy indeed! I had only entered the bare basics of my important relationships, dates, etc. Add beefing up my own profile to the 2026 goal list. Who knows me better than me? Here's what I wrote for the Alert N...
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GENEALOGY CHALLENGE 2021 - Seeing Double

James, dwarfed by a Union Pacific engine.


 
James' grandpa, James Casey, Sr. enjoys his time on a train.

GENEALOGY CHALLENGE 2021

Seeing Double -  January 25th entry of a 31-day challenge to post a document, photo or artifact on social media every day in January.  

by Nancy Gilbride Casey


What is it about little boys and trains? Our son James was enamored of trains from the day he first noticed them as a tiny little guy. 

Whenever we saw one, he would want me to slow down the car so we could watch it, or roll the car windows down so that he could hear the train whistle. He collected Thomas the Tank Engine cars and track. I read him Thomas the Tank Engine books, and we watched the TV show too. With every library trip we took, we looked for any book with a train theme. I'm sure there was a train-themed birthday party at some point too.

James also loved a trip to the train museum with his Papa (James D. Casey, Sr.), or visiting other train exhibits in local small towns. Imagine his thrill when we took a ride on the actual Thomas the Train one year in Grapevine, Texas!

The love of trains must run in the family line: proven by this wonderful black and white photograph of James' Papa, standing on a train stairs when he was a little man. It wonderful to see shared interests passed through generations.


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