Thank you! That's very kind of you to say. I've been doing more over on YouTube. www.youtube.com/@amyjohnsonc...

I hope you're enjoying the challenge so far!

My mom doin' laundry, hangin' out shirts in the dirty breeze...

*keeps His eye on us all. (That's what I get for not doublechecking the lyrics first.)

"...I grew up believing God had his eye on us all..."

I think Indiana's schedules are at the Indiana State Archive (not online, though).

Make sure you follow through to the 1880 DDD schedule -- there are so many clues of the Deaf part of the schedule.

Oh no! I didn't mean that people should only share in the Facebook group! I meant that people don't need to be emailing me their stories. (Suddenly, I was getting tons of them, including some with file attachments.) Please feel free to share wherever you'd like!

I've always said it's a flexible challenge :-)

There's a lot you can w/out spending any money. Labeling photos (which almost always leads to stories). Writing/recording stories. Talking w/family members.

Plus, there are lots of free resources for records (FamilySearch, local libraries and archives, etc) & sites your library might subscribe to.

Why not both? We can multitask!

No better time than the present!

That's so hard :-( When my dad died, I thought about all of the things I wish I would have asked. Even 4 years later, I still think about those things. You always think there will be more time.

No time like the present!

That would do it!

That's something that we don't talk about enough -- when you take a DNA test, there's no going back once you see the results. (And a reason why I think the DNA companies' Father's Day sales are peak cringe.)

Ask open ended questions. ("What did you do for Thanksgiving as a child" vs "Did you eat turkey for Thanksgiving") Don't interject yourself into their story. Keep the whole process simple; the more you complicate it, the less effective it will be.