Sadly, I can not render the Pool House, as the baseplate for the set is not available in Studio to build it properly. So this handsome fellow will have to do.
Marriage of Jose Maria Navarro and Maria Ramos
Number one. Act of presentation of Citizen Jose Maria Navarro and Miss Maria Ramos. Number one. At the Mineral of Guadalupe y Calvo, at half past eleven in the morning, corresponding to January 5, 1907, before me, Julio Oroco, Judge of the Civil Status of this place by virtue of the law, appeared stating his…
Preserving the Work: My Current Methodology
Let’s have a conversation about documentation and preserving the work. I recently attended a special interest class hosted by the Colorado Genealogical Society entitled “Disaster Proofing Your Research”. The speaker, Sarah Cochran, is a full-time professional genealogist with twenty-five years’ worth of research experience. It was very interesting to see how she, personally, tackled record…
José Onesimo Pacheco: Part One, Birth to World War I
Two miles southeast of the town of Gardner, Colorado was once a town of Hispanic families known as Chavez.1 The word itself has roots in the Spanish and Portuguese language meaning “keys” and as with many surnames, was a trade that evolved into a surname.2 The history of the Hispanic settlers of the area is…
LEGO Row Houses
This is a render of the house from set 10270 Bookshop in multiple colors. The fun part is that these cab be built in these colors as I sourced the bricks in the colors available in 2020. I have built the pink one IRL, and it is at my desk at work.
Otero County Marriage Research Guide
Back in 2007, I was a coordinator for the Otero County COGenWeb Project. I did not have the time to maintain and grow the website, so it was passed on to someone else. I wrote the following Otero County Marriage Research Guide. I have updated as the information for the CD-ROM, for as of today,…
Otero County Census Research Guide
Back in 2007, I was a coordinator for the Otero County COGenWeb Project. I did not have the time to maintain and grow the website, so it was passed on to someone else. I wrote the following Otero County Census Research Guide that is still good information, so I am sharing it here. While the…
My Genealogy Books: El Cerrito, New Mexico
There are a few genealogy books that I have on my bookshelf. El Cerrito, New Mexico Eight Generations in a Spanish Village by Richard L. Nostrand is one that I have purchased four times, because each time I have shared it with someone in family, they inevitability keep it for themselves. The book is the…
Baptismal Record for Piedad Duran
My Spanish language skills are nonexistent; yet the classes I did take in school helped me enough to make sure Google Translate wasn’t translating garbage. Junio 2 Ma. Piedad Duran En esta parroquia de Taos, a los dos día del mes de Junio de mil ochocientos sesenta y siete yo el párroco Gabriel Ussel bautise…
Untitled May 1977 LEGO House
We moved to a new home in June of 2021 and one of the things that I have not really sorted out is… where to store my LEGO. Or how to store my LEGO, frankly. So whenever I get the urge, I break out Studio and build virtually. This little house is from the May…