A mixed up family tree

family tree nuts

I’ve picked up an interest in genealogy over recent years. I’ve been tracking what I find on Geni.com as well as our own family Wiki site.

It’s interesting to track where you’ve come from.

Some interesting folks in our family tree include:

President James Madison, Jr
Wyatt Earp
Gen Edmund P Gaines – Gen. War Of 1812 and man who arrested Aaron Burr on charges of treason
Robert/Richard Gaines – who signed the Texas Declaration of Independence
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Helping our friends beat foreclosure – update

Stockton, California

It’s been two and a half weeks since I put out a plea to all my blog readers, Twitter friends and Facebook peeps to help our friends beat foreclosure.

The plea was simple — can we get 450 people to donate $10 by Nov 1 to help them keep their house.
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Posterous as a Twitter Client

posterous vs. tumblr

Related to my questions from last week, between Posterous vs Tumblr, Lifehack.org has shared an interested idea for the micro-blogging site Posterous.

(BTW – Mashable picked Tumblr over Posterous but a survey of their readers showed a preference of Tumblr over Posterous)

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