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Daily Archives: November 30th, 2009

Daily Journal 29 Nov 2009: The Gunfight!

An exciting evening! When I got home from work, I started reviewing my second great-grandfather Miles Francis Stanley’s file. As I do with each ancester, I plugged his name into Google to see if there was anything “out there” about him. Nothin’. Then I entered his name into the Google Books search engine and hit [...]

Daily Journal 28 Nov 2009: Quality time with my granddaughter!

My granddaughter Stacie and I went to see the new Twilight movie, “New Moon”. Now mind you, before seeing this moving, I have not read any of the books or seen the first movie. Nor am I 14 years old and get all silly and flustered by the young men in this movie. I’m well [...]

Daily Journal 27 Nov 2009

Kinda hung over today from all of yesterday’s wonderful food! Didn’t do much genealogy today. A little RSS reading… I did happen upon a couple of city directory listings for my 2GGF, Miles Francis Stanley, from Mineral Wells, Texas in 1909 and 1920. Pretty cool! I found these at The Portal to Texas History: The [...]