Genealogical Gems

Yesterday Genealogical Gems added a For Sale page. The page will feature various (i.e. random) items related to genealogy or local history. Current items include Hometowne Collectibles and The Cat's Meow items but Sorting Saturday has found many potential items! While items will be removed from the page once sold, I will still offer as much information as possible. For example, the photo at right here is the Hometowne Collectible from Grace Lutheran Church in Lancaster, PA. The back simply reads: Grace Lutheran Church, Lancaster, PA. North Queen & East James Streets. Established April 1874. 125th Anniversary. 1975 - 1999. One of these " Those Places Thursdays " I may feature the church and her history. Again items for sale will be random as I come across them. If you are looking for a specific item or information on a specific area, feel free to drop a comment here or email me privately and I will keep my eyes open for it!

Lately I feel like I have been running in several different directions at once. Normally I am very organized and everything has its place. However, as my life gets more stressful, my desk has become cluttered in one large pile. Friday it was cool enough to do some cleaning and rearranging upstairs. My work area is quarantined to a small section of my incredibly small bedroom. I began by emptying out everything onto my bed. My cat was not happy with me! To help organize things I put everything in its own pile: a writer's magazines pile; miscellaneous magazine and pamphlet pile; a diabetes info pile; a running and fitness pile; a church pile; a pile for my work at Hospitality Basket; and finally what was left on my bed should be genealogy related. As I'm going through the piles and piles of things I came across an article  from the NGS Quarterly volume 82 # 4 from December 1994 . to article titled " Tracking a Soldier Between Enlistment and Discharge:  the Ex...