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Tuesday, Apr 17
My Aunt Betty Walls Baxter went to her Heavenly reward last week. She was a gracious lady who was a key member of the gospel singing Baxter Family - made up of her, my uncle and their children - who sang all across the mid-western states in the 1960s and 1970s.
I was in the middle of doing a favor for one of my other uncles (transferring his old 33 RPM record albums of the Baxter Family to modern CDs so that he could listen to them once again) when Aunt Betty passed away. So then I created an online tribute to her including photographs and examples of their music that features her beautiful voice. You can share your remembrances of Betty through the Tribute page which you can visit by clicking on the graphic banner on my home page.
Roger
Monday, Feb 27
Updating the problem with the Toshiba Satellite laptop - in spite of all the effort to help it, it's performance gradually deteriorated to the point of only being able to work in Safe Mode while being plugged into the power outlet and the battery became too weak to hardly get it booted before kicking itself off again. So I essentially gave up on it and got a replacement.
That replacement proved to have a defective trackpad. Everything else worked just fine ... as long as we used a USB wireless mouse. So before the wonderful SamsClub 90 day return it for any reason warranty ran out, I returned it for a quick and easy, no questions asked (well, they did ask why, but put up no fuss about it) full refund of the purchase price and the extended warranty price that I had paid for it.
And then after researching the models now available, I bought another HP laptop at SamsClub. It is hard to beat their features for price point ... and their in house 90 day warranty just can't be beat!
Roger
Sunday, Jan 8
We are finally back home again after 30 days away spending Christmas and New Years and visiting family and friends in Arkansas and Illinois. It is always good to be in your own home.
Along the way we collected additional genealogical information and even met a distant "cousin" while taking photographs in a rural cemetery. I now have so much new information and new to me ancestral photos that it is going to take me quite a while to get everything posted online. So be watching the "Recent Updates" list on the Family Then and Now website to see what all I have found.
Roger
