Thankful Thursday - I'm so thankful for the doctors......

As I write this post my Mother-in-Law is undergoing a double bypass surgery.

I am so thankful for the doctors who found the problem, for the medical knowledge available to repair the damage and to the entire medical community at Memorial Hospital in South Bend for taking loving care of her for us.

I'm grateful for the outpouring of love and prayers both Jan and our family have received these last few days.

Mostly I'm thankful that among the gifts we will receive this holiday season, the best gift of all, will be having Jan home with us for Christmas.  Nothing else can compare.

Thankful Thursday - Free Genealogy Education

It might seem a silly thing to be thankful for but with two sons in college at the same time my dollars are s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d thin these days!

But that doesn't stop me from taking advantage of many genealogy learning opportunities available.  I just look for those with a price tag to fit my current budget.....FREE!

I did a quick look back at all the learning resources online in the past year that I have taken advantage of and am blown away!  Keep in mind these are just the ones I can remember (this middle age brain isn't what it use to be!)

I have listened to:

12 Legacy Family Tree Webinars
 3 Explorinars by Thomas MacEntee
 1 Ancestry.com Webinar
 1 class on the Civil War recorded by Yale Univeristy
 1 PBS Documentary on the War of 1812 available online
Countless Friday nights listening to Geneabloggers Radio
Many Podcasts of Genealogy Gems

Not to mention all I've learned from the 100+  genealogy blogs that I follow! And the year isn't over yet!  I still have two more Webinars I am registered for in December!

All this FREE education has allowed me to save my genealogy education dollars for my first national genealogy conference - NGS in Cincinnati in May!

Today I am so thankful for all of you in the genealogy community who share your expertise with all of us.  The price tag may be free but it is PRICELESS to me.