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George Washington Hunter

There is a lot I don't know but here is what I know about my 2nd great-grandfather. George Washington Hunter is the son of William Wallace and Priscilla Cragle Hunter. George was born in 1854 and died in 1927 George married Mary McMelon abt 1880 and they had Jonah, Sarah, Iva Pearl, and Theron. Mary died in 1903 and in Jan 1904 he married my 2nd great-grandmother Florence M. Lewis Myers. Together, George and Florence had my great-grandfather Willard Milton Hunter. In 1870 George was 16 years old and he was a farm laborer according to the 1870 census; he was living in Union, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania with his parents. In 1880 George was 26 years old and he was married to Mary (she was only 17 years old). George's occupation is a teamster and they are living in Hunlock Township. Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. In 1900 George was 46 years old and he was married to Mary who is 36 years old. George is listed as a farmer owning his own farm. Geor...

Top 10 Posts of 2019

You might be wondering why I would do a post like this when my blog only had two posts in 2019. I looked at my stats at the end of 2019 and was amazed at the hits my blog was still getting and what the popular posts were. This year I included the top 5 searches on my blog. You can see the 2018 list here . Top 10 of 2019 US Marine Casualty Cards - 2014 (+1) Goodbye Evernote, Hello OneNote - 2018 (+2) Evernote Research Checklist -- update - 2018 Using Evernote for my Planner - 2017 (+2) OneNote | A Look Inside - 2019 (new) Evernote To Do List Update - 2015 (-1) The Great Genealogy Shape Up of 2018! - 2018 (new) Evernote to OneNote | Importing Notes - 2018 (new) OneNote | Anatomy of a Notebook - 2018 (new) Top 10 Posts for 2018 - 2019 (new) Top 5 Searches of 2019 Evernote Legacy Family Tree OneNote Thomas Rutan Some Thoughts I'm surpris...

OneNote | A Look Inside

I still have a few more notes to move over from Evernote but I am loving OneNote. I keep to do lists, goals, projects, ideas, genealogy research and so much more in OneNote. So what does my setup look like? Lets take a look! {I usually use OneNote 2016 but I have tried the Windows 10 app and it works just as good.} The first screen shot below is OneNote 2016 and the second is from the Windows 10 app. My first notebook is my task management notebook. In this notebook I have my Inbox, which is my default section for incoming stuff, calendar and lists. {Emails that I have sent to OneNote and screen clips go in my Inbox section.} The next notebook is for my blog, and then the Genealogy notebook is for research notes, then I have the GBT notebook which I use for notes and reminders for GeneaBloggersTribe, the Reference notebook is for things that don't belong in one of the other notebooks, and the last notebook is the Archive. Let...

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