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Wordless Wednesday: Families

Posted in Cheek, tagged , on 27 August 2008 | Leave a Comment »

“Families.” Digital Image. Photographed by Richard O. Cheek, 8 June 2005. Privately held by Richard O. Cheek, Midwest City, OK, 2005.
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The Soundtracks Of My Salad Days

Posted in Uncategorized on 22 August 2008 | 2 Comments »

I thought this would really be easy. Boy, was I wrong. I had never counted the albunms that I thought were significant to me before. Limiting it by years helped but not much. I finally had to decide on my own groundrules. First, only one album per artist is allowed. This leaves out some really [...]

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Wordless Wednesday: When You Really Need A Friend

Posted in Cheek, tagged , on 20 August 2008 | 2 Comments »

“When You Really Need A Friend.” Digital Image. Photographed by Richard O. Cheek, January 2008. Privately held by Richard O. Cheek, Midwest City, OK, 2008.

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Academic Globalization of “Genealogy Method”

Posted in genealogy, tagged on 18 August 2008 | Leave a Comment »

It looks like genealogists are having a significant impact in the hallowed halls of academia.  This is a message I received on a library listserv:
 
Academic Globalization of “Genealogy Method”
 
DEFINITION of “genealogy”:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/genealogy
 
CURRENT USE DEFINITION of “genealogy method”: Method of investigative scholarship to establish valid generational relationships connecting any specialty, within or between all fields of [...]

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Kneeling on the medal stand

Posted in Sports, tagged , , , , , , on 18 August 2008 | 2 Comments »

Pardon this brief departure from the genea-games, but I need to rant a little.  Men’s gymnastics has always been about power, but women’s gymnastics has been about style, grace, and skill, at least until this olympics.  I never thought I would see the day when a gymnast who fell to her knees on landing would [...]

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Genea-Bloggers Games Days 2-3

Posted in Cheek, Genea-bloggers on 12 August 2008 | Leave a Comment »

    
Day Two was pretty much a bust because of some serious family problems. I did manage to do two citations.  I really got rolling on day three and did 52 getting all of my direct line with spouses and siblings fully documented and cited down to my grandfather Cheek.  That brings my citation total to [...]

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My Favorite Photograph

Posted in Cheek, tagged , , , on 10 August 2008 | 8 Comments »

As part of the 4th Edition of the “I Smile for the Camera” Carnival hosted at footnoteMaven’s Shades of the Departed online publication, participants must pick a favorite photograph and explain why it is so
The title of this has to have a disclaimer.  It was a lot harder than I thought it would be to [...]

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Day One Totals

Posted in Cheek, tagged , on 10 August 2008 | Leave a Comment »

My Cheek line has been proved back to the early 1700s with evidence that it probably goes back to Anthony was in in Virginia in 1660.  While I have all of that line documented I don’t have good citations for all of the connections. So that is my real goal for the competition, to have [...]

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A January Wedding Album

Posted in Uncategorized on 10 August 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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Cheekasia

Posted in Cheek, tagged , on 9 August 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The flag of Cheekasia represents the USA where five of our children were born, three in Oklahoma and two in Texas and Malaysia where our son, John was born. While we have lived in several countries none of them affected us like Malaysia.

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