Profile of Diana Tibert

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• Roots to the Past
  In early December, Roderick Benns contacted me regarding a new concept in books aimed to deliver history like never before. The Leaders & ...
• Roots to the Past
  After further investigation, I learned scammers are out to do more than pick the pockets of unsuspecting individuals; they're out to trash mail ...
• Roots to the Past
  They say you must look back to see forward. I haven’t always believed in this philosophy, but I can see I’ll be following it in the coming ...
• Roots to the Past
  Can you hear that? It’s Christmas Eve and almost every public building within miles has turned off their cash registers, extinguished their ...
• Roots to the Past
  My two oldest children arrived home from school the other day, complaining about their lesson. Both were forced to sit through a boring film ...
• Roots to the Past
  What would you do with a query posted to a message board or mailing list that reads: "Looking for information on Mary McDonald?" Would you ...
• Roots to the Past
  I’m easily distracted. While I’m at it, I might as well confess that I’m terribly curious, too. It’s a time-consuming combination. I’m the ...
• Roots to the Past
  While vacationing on Prince Edward Island this summer, the kids and I had fun rhyming off place names. These weren’t just any place names, but ...
• Roots to the Past
  Some websites are launched on the Internet and that's where they sit, day after day, year after year. Their hosts had something to say or to ...
• Roots to the Past
  Recently, while reading about several upcoming book launches, a local history book caught my attention. Eager to learn more before I made the ...
• Roots to the Past
  Maps show us where we are, where we came from and where we might go. They tell stories of the people who came before us who dotted the landscape ...
• Roots to the Past
  By the time we reach the age of 40, we realize mistakes are a part of life. Some mistakes are small interruptions easily fixed. Other mistakes ...
• Roots to the Past
  Copyright is something many of us never think about. When we do, we often view it as complicated and contradictory. Whether we realize it or not, ...
• Traditional Irish Names
  The Irish community has some of the most unique and entertaining names. After all, who can forget the name of the man who bounced back when ...
• Roots to the Past
  While standing in a checkout line a few days before Christmas, I heard a man tell the cashier about a recent dilemma. A purchased item from the ...
• Roots to the Past
  The first time I read RAOK in a message posted to a genealogy mailing list, I had to ask what the acronym stood for. A subscriber provided the ...
• Roots to the Past
  When I was a child shadowing my older brother as he checked his snares, I was amazed by his ability to find a hare trail. He'd crouch low, point ...
• Roots to the Past
  It's that time of year again when I look back over the past 12 months and wonder where they went. Roots to the Past is now four years old. In ...
• Roots to the Past
  I always say, you learn something new every day. Today, I learned how to kill ants with boiling water, but that doesn't have anything to do with ...
• Roots to the Past
  Roots to the Past Not Just Another Day in History Diana Lynn Tibert Sixty-five years ago
• Roots to the Past
  When we heard the news on the radio, my 10-year-old son and I stared at each other. Had we heard right? Was a voyage being planned to mark the ...
• Roots to the Past
  Browsing the produce aisles these days, one might have to stop and wonder, where are we? Kiwis, mangoes and other tropical fruits that I can't ...
• Roots to the Past
  History is notorious for ignoring women as individuals. For the most part, their history is clumped together with their fathers and then their ...
• Roots to the Past
  Lifes journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body,but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting, Hot Damn! ...
• Roots to the Past
  Its that time of year again when our mailbox is stuffed with letters and cards. At our house, the holiday mail begins the first week of ...
• Roots to the Past
  This is the time of year scam artists seem to choose to make their big hits. I guess it is because everyone is on heightened alert looking for ...
• Roots to the Past
  A few years ago, I read a comic strip where one senior asked another senior, "how old do you have to be to die of old age?" This is interesting ...
• Netiquette on genealogy mailing lists
  A few weeks ago, I was shocked by rude comments posted to a genealogy mailing list. The person making the comments was a long-time member and ...
• Loyalists are coming, 225 years later
  Look out, this summer is going to be a blast - a musket blast, that is. The Loyalists arrived in Canada 225 years ago and this summer, their ...
• Learning the ABCs of genealogy
  Recently, someone posted Genealogy from A to Z on a mailing list. Although the article was credited to Michael John Neill, there was no mention ...