Posted on January 25th, 2012 by GenLady
Juanita F. (Brown) Dooley
On December 29, 2011, a library burned to the ground. No, it isn’t a library just anyone could visit. This library was a wealth of information, available to anyone in the family who had the desire to reach out and get it.
My grandmother, Juanita F. (Brown) Dooley passed away that day. She was the daughter of the late Robert and Mary Jane (Sweeney) Brown of Salem, Washington County, Indiana.
She was the first, and so far only, woman commander of the Indiana DAV. She served as a WAC in WWII, She was also a member of the American Legion. She logged in over 18,000 hours of volunteer service to other disabled American veterans. She was an amazing woman, one I’m proud to call my grandmother.
We miss you Mammaw, and we’ll see you again someday!
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Posted on May 28th, 2011 by GenLady
We all take many things for granted: the sun coming up in the morning, the water coming out of the faucet in the morning when we go to make our much needed coffee, our genealogy records being available…wait, what?
Yes…we do sometimes take that for granted, as well. I have donated quite a bit of my time to the USGenWeb and I have heard some strange questions…one that really threw me was the following: “What do you mean you don’t have that marriage document? You’re the coordinator for the County right? Aren’t you supposed to have all of the records available for that County in order to coordinate it?”
I could hardly respond to that woman. Those volunteering on-line to post information and aid researchers in their journeys to ancestral towns are there to help. In most cases they really wish they had the document you’re looking for and will do what the can to help you find it. However, many times they simply do not have a copy of great-great grandpa Joe’s draft card.
Please remember this when emailing volunteers. They want to help you, they really do. But if they don’t have it, they just don’t have it. But if you’re nice to them, a few weeks later when they run across GGGrandpa Joe’s name in a biographical history they’ll remember you..and send you that information!
My grandma always said, “You catch more flies with honey!” That applies to genealogy volunteers, too! 
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Posted on May 27th, 2011 by GenLady
Sometimes life requires you take a break from the hobby you love. This has been the case for GenLady. I hope my readers will continue to visit and bear with me while I get back in to the swing of things here at the site.
In the coming weeks I will be attempting to do the following:
1. Restart our “Where were you…” Blog Carnival. – I sure have missed this, haven’t you?!
2. Post at least once each week in the beginning, working my way up to once per day. – This will take a bit of doing..but I’ll get there!
3. Post one Genealogy in the News article per week. – Genealogy is all over the news, isn’t it?!
4. Post one featured Genealogy Website per week. – Would you like your website featured? Send it to me at dee@genlady.com
5. Restart our Quote of the Day.
If you have any ideas to help me out please feel free to contact me by posting a comment here, or emailing dee@genlady.com
I look forward to hearing from everyone!
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Posted on June 25th, 2010 by GenLady
Last week, on June 15th 2010, a library burned. No, it wasn’t a brick structured filled with books. It wasn’t a gathering place for researchers of long gone families.
My grandfather, Ulyssis Lamar Floyd, passed away.He was a wealth of knowledge and wisdom…and all of that is now gone, lost to those of us left behind.
Luckily we were able to hear many of the stories of his childhood, listen to the wisdom cominng from such a wonderful man.
What about you? If you’re the oldest in your family have you written down everything you need to write down? The stories, the knowledge…will it all be lost when you pass on?This has been a real wake up call for me and others in the family. We don’t want our stories, our life lessons, to be lost…we’re writing them down.
Ulyssis Lamar Floyd
June 23, 1917 – June 15, 2010
Father to four, Grandfather to ten, great grandfather to eighteen and great-great grandfather to six.
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Posted on October 4th, 2008 by GenLady
Today’s Old Illnesses are F – J
F
Falling sickness = Epilepsy
Fatty Liver = Cirrhosis of liver
Fits = Sudden attack or seizure of muscle activity.
Flux = An excessive flow or discharge of fluid like hemorrhage or diarrhea.
Flux of humour = Circulation.
French pox = Syphilis
G
H
Heart sickness = Condition caused by loss of salt from body
Heat stroke = Body temperature elevates because of surrounding environment temperature and body does not perspire to reduce temperature. Coma and death result if not reversed
Hectical complaint = Recurrent fever
Hematemesis = Vomiting blood
Hematuria = Bloody urine
Hemiplegy = Paralysis of one side of body
Hip gout = Osteomylitis
Horrors = Delirium tremens
Hydrocephalus = Enlarged head, water on the brain
Hydropericardium = Heart dropsy
Hydrophobia = Rabies
Hydrothroax = Dropsy in chest
Hypertrophic = Enlargement of organ, like the heart
I
Impetigo = Contagious skin disease characterized by pustules
Inanition = Physical condition resulting from lack of food
Infantile paralysis = Polio
Intestinal colic = Abdominal pain due to improper diet
J
Jail fever = Typhus
Jaundice = Condition caused by blockage of intestines
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Posted on June 16th, 2008 by GenLady
by Muna wa Wanjiru
More and more people are interested in finding out their roots and knowing who their ancestors were, or they’d simply like to leave something for the future generations to refer back to. Yet, this may look like an impossible mission at first hand particularly if you have pretty little information on your family. Nevertheless, don’t lose hope until you’ve tried the family tree maker, a special software designed to assist not only genealogists but any common user who’s eager to learn something on personal family history. Furthermore, the family tree maker also preserves data and enables the free sharing of family history world wide. What can you actually do with the family tree maker?
Due to the advanced technology on which it relies, the family tree maker allows the user to start building a family tree around names, dates and events. Documents, audio and video files as well as pictures can also be attached or uploaded. Furthermore, if information already exists on your family, but it is scarce, you can actually merge the existing bits of material with the help of the family tree maker. Moreover, the software can be easily used in combination with the most resourceful genealogy site on the web: Ancestry.com.
As a software, the family tree maker has undergone several improvement stages, of which the most comprehensive variant is the family tree maker 2008. There is an increase in the dynamics of the software that is definitely obvious with the introduction of the new model. First of all, when dealing with a particular life event, one may easily find all the lists of people associated with that particular happening, and the same feature is available for dealing with locations. The family tree maker has access to such a rich database, that the user benefits from no less than three millions locations to help him/her make the correct data entrance.
The interface used by the family tree maker is a lot faster in response, meaning that the access to data is more rapid: you can enter, edit or simply view whatever interests you in a more time-effective way. Furthermore, the best software reviews of the family tree maker are directed towards the multi-media option of the program which allows for the creation of charts and reports that have videos and pictures incorporated in the structure. Once you get to work with the program, you’ll see how much assistance it offers in routine tasks, by the many tools and panels available to the user.
Muna wa Wanjiru Has Been Researching and Reporting on Trees for Years. For More Information on Family Tree Maker, Visit His Site at FAMILY TREE MAKER
Muna wa Wanjiru may be contacted at http://www.merpetsales.com
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Posted on June 9th, 2008 by GenLady
After weeks of dealing with poison sumac I am back. Poison sumac is no fun at all…I have been itching and burning for weeks now…but it’s finally going away.
Poison ivy doesn’t bother me…and I can play around in poison oak with no problems at all…but put me down wind of poison sumac and I’m miserable! 
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Posted on May 1st, 2008 by GenLady
I found this….it’s kinda neat
My blog is worth $7,339.02.
How much is your blog worth?
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Posted on May 1st, 2008 by GenLady
Todays list of old illnesses are A – E
A
Ablepsy = Blindness
Ague = Malarial Fever
American plague = Yellow fever.
Anasarca = Generalized massive edema.
Aphonia = Laryngitis.
Aphtha = The infant disease “thrush”.
Apoplexy = Paralysis due to stroke.
Asphycsia/Asphicsia =Cyanotic and lack of oxygen.
Atrophy =Wasting away or diminishing in size.
B
Bad Blood = Syphilis
Bilious fever = Typhoid, malaria, hepatitis or elevated temperature and bile emesis.
Biliousness = Jaundice associated with liver disease.
Black plague or death = Bubonic plague.
Black fever = Acute infection with high temperature and dark red skin lesions and high mortality rate.
Black pox = Black Small pox
Black vomit = Vomiting old black blood due to ulcers or yellow fever
Blackwater fever = Dark urine associated with high temperature.
Bladder in throat = Diphtheria (Seen on death certificates)
Blood poisoning = Bacterial infection; septicemia
Bloody flux = Bloody stools
Bloody sweat = Sweating sickness
Bone shave = Sciatica
Brain fever = Meningitis
Breakbone = Dengue fever
Bright’s disease = Chronic inflammatory disease of kidneys
Bronze John = Yellow fever
Bule = Boil, tumor or swelling.
C
Cachexy = Malnutrition
Cacogastric = Upset stomach
Cacospysy = Irregular pulse.
Caduceus = Subject to falling sickness or epilepsy.
Camp fever = Typhus; aka Camp diarrhea
Canine madness = Rabies, hydrophobia.
Canker = Ulceration of mouth or lips or herpes simplex.
Catalepsy = Seizures / trances.
Catarrhal = Nose and throat discharge from cold or allergy.
Cerebritis = Inflammation of cerebrum or lead poisoning
Chilblain = Swelling of extremities caused by exposure to cold
Child bed fever = Infection following birth of a child.
Chin cough = Whooping cough.
Chlorosis = Iron deficiency anemia.
Cholera = Acute severe contagious diarrhea with intestinal lining sloughing.
Cholera morbus = Characterized by nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, elevated temperature, etc. Could be appendicitis.
Cholecystitus = Inflammation of the gall bladder
Cholelithiasis = Gall stones
Chorea = Disease characterized by convulsions, contortions and dancing.
Cold plague = Ague which is characterized by chills
Colic = An abdominal pain and cramping
Congestive chills = Malaria
Consumption = Tuberculosis.
Congestion = Any collection of fluid in an organ, like the lungs.
Congestive chills = Malaria with diarrhea.
Congestive fever = Malaria.
Corruption = Infection
Coryza = A cold.
Costiveness = Constipation
Cramp colic = Appendicitis
Crop sickness = Overextended stomach
Croup = Laryngitis, diphtheria, or strep throat
Cyanosis = Dark skin color from lack of oxygen in blood
Cynanche = Diseases of throat
Cystitis = Inflammation of the bladder
D
Day fever = Fever lasting one day; sweating sickness
Debility = Lack of movement or staying in bed.
Decrepitude = Feebleness due to old age
Delirium tremens = Hallucinations due to alcoholism
Dengue = Infectious fever endemic to East Africa
Dentition = Cutting of teeth
Deplumation = Tumor of the eyelids which causes hair loss
Diary fever = A fever that lasts one day
Diptheria = Contagious disease of the throat
Distemper = Usually animal disease with malaise, discharge from nose and throat, anorexia
Dock fever = Yellow fever
Dropsy = Edema (swelling), often caused by kidney or heart disease.
Dropsy of the Brain = Encephalitis
Dry Bellyache = Lead poisoning
Dyscrasy = An abnormal body condition
Dysentery = Inflammation of colon with frequent passage
Dysorexy = Reduced appetite of mucous and blood.
Dyspepsia = Indigestion and heartburn. Heart attack symptoms.
Dysury = Difficulty in urination
E
Eclampsy = Symptoms of epilepsy, convulsions during labor
Ecstasy = A form of catalepsy characterized by loss of reason
Edema = Nephrosis; swelling of tissues
Edema of lungs = Congestive heart failure, a form of dropsy
Eel thing = Erysipelas
Elephantiasis = A form of leprosy
Encephalitis = Swelling of brain; aka sleeping sickness
Enteric fever = Typhoid fever
Enterocolitis = Inflammation of the intestines
Enteritis = Inflations of the bowels
Epitaxis = Nose bleed
Erysipelas = Contagious skin disease, due to Streptococci with vesicular and bulbous lesions.
Extravasted blood = Rupture of a blood vessel.
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Posted on April 26th, 2008 by GenLady
When a tombstone is difficult to read, try placing aluminum foil over the lettering. Press gently with your fingers around each of the letters until you can read it.
This keeps from damaging the tombstone.
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