Karen About Genealogy

Karen LeSueur Packard Rhodes's musings about genealogy, including recent developments, methods and sources, her own family history, and whatever is and can be related to them.

Saturday, June 21, 2025

50-Day Family History Blogging Challenge: Baseball

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My husband and I, on a whim, watched the greater part of a baseball game today. It was the Baltimore Orioles at the New York Yankees. As ...

Friday, June 20, 2025

50-Day Family History Blogging Challenge: Charles Reed's Timeline

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Charles Reed (1840-1920) was my great-great grandfather on my mother's side. He was born in Gallia County, Ohio, 28 August 1840.[1] H...

Thursday, June 19, 2025

50-Day Family History Blogging Challenge: Pi Day and Beyond

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Years ago, our older daughter Marti was the receptionist/secretary of the Math and Statistics Department at the University of North Florida ...

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

50-Day Family History Blogging Challenge: Hallowe'en 1982

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[Alert: this post has one mildly naughty word in it.] It was the season for trick-or-treating in the neighborhood where we lived when our ...

Saturday, June 14, 2025

50-Day Family History Blogging Challenge: Story Time

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Jennifer Jones, whom I follow on Substack, has issued a challenge: Can we make an entry to our genealogy blogs every day for 50 days? I...

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Karen Packard Rhodes: Graduated 27 April 2012 from the University of North Florida with a Bachelor of Arts in history and Spanish at the age of 65! Received a Master of Liberal Arts in Florida Studies at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, 3 May 2015, at the age of 68. A migratory lifeform with a tropism for bookstores, I have also written two books, Booking Hawaii Five-0: An Episode Guide and Critical History of the 1968-1980 Television Detective Series and Non-Federal Censuses of Florida, 1784-1945: A Guide to Sources.

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