Leslie's Family Site
This is primarily a genealogy site – the Family Tree and Family Photos are the main focus for data. I have information about and for Price, Riffle, Chamberlain, and Brenholts families, the Texas branches – and their ancestors. For now, Family Tree and Family Photos are distinct subsites, not connected …
TNG is the application I use to display my RootsMagic genealogy data on the web, here I describe a workaround I’ve implemented for displaying my custom media collections. Desired State A Media Collection named “Marriage Records” in Gallery View. The Descriptive view shows the thumbnails as well a links to …
Once I decided to move my research notes and source information out of RootsMagic and into Zotero I had to figure out how to bend that scholarly research program to my genealogy needs. Someday maybe I’ll dig in deeper and write some custom source templates, rename the fields, really create …
After years of dancing around the idea of having separate tools for my genealogy database and my research process, I’ve finally settled on using Zotero during my research and to manage my source information, and using RootsMagic to manage and control the conclusions I draw about my family history. My …
So many of my fellow Americans have honored Memorial Day by telling the tales of their relatives’ heroism, honor, and sacrifice. They are lovely and great stories, inspiring us all to be better, to do more, to be worthy. I’d like to tell a different kind of story about a …
While I haven’t traced every ancestor back to “before they were here”, every single immigrant that I have found came to this country prior to 1776. They came from Ireland, Scotland, England, and Germany. They came here, made a life, made a family, and made a great nation. The migration …
In many ways, this man is responsible for 30 years worth of genealogical pondering. When Mom started researching the Riffle family, he immediately became the major “brick wall” ancestor. She talked about him, speculated about him (and Amanda) and that triggered my fascination with the entire field of genealogy. This …
Coincidence – a wink from God letting you know you’re headed in the right direction. There’s a great story of coincidence in our very own family. Samuel Scott Riffle, known to most (even his wife) as Mr. Riffle, had the kind of tough upbringing that was sadly quite common in …