Porch Swings, Fireflies, and Jelly Jars: Email Subscribers to Porch Swings

Sunday, June 27, 2021

Email Subscribers to Porch Swings

If you don't follow many blogs, you may not realize that the email subscription service, Feedburner, used by most Google bloggers will be discontinued sometime in July or shortly thereafter. That means that if you are an email subscriber to this blog, you will no longer receive email notifications of new blog posts.

After a lot of searching, wringing of hands, and gnashing of teeth, I have selected a new subscription service called Follow.it. The only problem is that Follow.it will only let me import 100 email users. Until this big upheaval happened, I had no idea how many of you were subscribing by email! Turns out, there are almost 300 of you.

Since I cannot import all of you, I have decided to have you resubscribe by email with Follow.it. This will give you the option to opt-in or opt-out. The new email subscription service can be found on the upper right side of the blog page and is currently titled "New Email Subscription." It is easy to subscribe.

For a short time, you may be receiving duplicate emails, for which I apologize. I will probably delete the Feedburner email in a couple of weeks. If I see that most of you have migrated to the new service, I will delete it sooner.

Another option for you is to "follow" through Google if you use your Google blog reader.

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About Me:

My favorite memories from childhood include visits to my grandparents in East Texas. At dusk we'd run around my grandparent's yard, catching fireflies and putting them in jelly jars. When darkness descended, we'd return to the porch. It was a special treat to sit in the porch swing. Inevitably, the adults would launch into family stories of Pink Kelley's brush with Sherman's troops, of Great Uncle Hood Brown's tragic death, and of the Kelley family's wagon trip to Texas, among many others. The stars on those nights were magical.

I began my genealogy research in the summer of 1975, less than a month after my high school graduation. When I married in 1983, I started researching my husband's family as well. I was fortunate to start this hobby as a youngster because it gave me an opportunity to correspond with researchers who are long gone; to ask questions of family members -although not enough, never enough; and travel a bit. The result is a lot of information. I've come to the realization that I will probably never be able to afford to publish, so this is my publication.

This blog contains a mixture of information on my husband's family and mine. I've expanded into a second blog called Flimsies and Frippery with the intention of focusing on quilts and dolls, but I have several historical research entries there with more planned, which is why I don't get more quilting done.

Ultimately, genealogy is my passion. This is where I plan to record family stories, research adventures and misadventures, and those serendipitous moments that happen out of the blue. You should be warned that I have a bad habit of going back and adding information and links to individual entries, so it is beneficial to check back often if there is a family of particular interest to you. If you wander in and discover that you are a cousin, please contact me.

Since many younger family members who are new to genealogy are starting to contact me about their ancestors, I've started adding family trees to help them see how everyone is connected. The trees are divided between my family and my husband's. You will find them below under the label's Family Trees - My Husband's Side and Family Trees - My Family's Side.

For better or worse, this blog reflects the research, thinking, and writing of a human.