Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

Need some online advice? The Internet abounds with assistance. Personally, I’m amazed by all the stuff out there: manuals, how-to’s, etc. The latest tool I’ve seen is the very timely 2009 Loan Modification Guide: Saving Your Home From Foreclosure guide online. It’s a free guide, and it has some helpful information with 20+ pages of [...]

I think, for some inexplicable reason, that the Library of Congress online archives are much underutilized and underrated. Even I rarely use the site. But I think I will use it from now on. The Library of Congress online archives is a huge database of texts, articles, photos, lithographs– think of anything that can be [...]

My grandmother was a genealogist. She had hundreds of folders, books, newsletters, papers, and more all crammed with genealogy information. I guess I got the bug from her. As a kid, she took me along with her on all her cemetery research exploits. I find myself doing the same thing with my own kids. Unfortunately, [...]