• Now I have to figure out how to wire transfer funds to Poland. #thethingsidoforgenealogy #
• This is me beating my head against the wall at work: |< |< |< If Twitter were in color you would see I'm bound head to toe with RED TAPE. #
• I was able to complete the wire transfer to Poland. Now let's hope my $265 genealogy research gamble pays off! #
• I attended Google Mail and Calendar training this morning. I actually learned some new tricks. #howexciting #
• Went back to the foot doctor because my right big toe never healed from when he took part of the nail. He went in and removed more of it. #
• Lunch @ The Deli in Queen Creek http://t.co/mQtgZnm #
• The Deli was really great. The food was excellent, the service was excellent, and the homemade ice cream was fantastic. #
• Ohhh yeah! Finally got 'em! http://t.co/FxigCvF #
• My poor toe! http://t.co/yhQBDLm #
• I can't imagine writing letters to churches in Poland before Google Translate. http://t.co/T90Mmuu #
• This is a REALLY BAD TIME for the Family Search website to be down. #
• The microfilm parish records for Dominik are in Latin, for Stroik they are in German and for Dreffs they are in Polish. #omghelpme #
• I am going to sleep tonight dreaming of waking up tomorrow morning to a Dreffs ancestral report from Poland. #fingerscrossed #
• I got my Dreffs report from Poland! Woot!! #
• There's ONE place the Dreffs family name appears (Kłecko, Poland) and FHL has zero records for that village. #figures #
• "Text in Latin, Polish and German." #ohgreatnowIneedallthreeatonce #

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• Could someone please turn off the sun? http://t.co/AzJWTrq #
• Dominion Day @ Beth's was a blast! I won one & lost one. I also learned a new game called Rolling Through The Ages. I just love game days! #
• I moved to a new office cubicle at work today. It will take some getting used after sitting inside the data center for the last 5 years. #
• I was just recognized by our office recognition committee for recognizing my employees. #catch22 #
• It's kind of funny to see how excited my coworkers get when they see mini cupcakes on the shared food table. #
• Memorial Day weekend! Four full days of whatever I feel like. Night photography & card games are top on my list of fun things to do. #
• I bought a subscription to Pandora and I really like it. I can find specific songs or choose any genre, commercial free, for $3 per month. #
• Sally Hansen Magnetic Polish in Ionic Indigo #iminlove http://t.co/KG5nEkM #
• Here is part of my pressed penny collection. I collect pressed quarters too! http://t.co/hMSS8Ha #
• Nail polish is awesome http://t.co/se9SQyh #
• Cheetoe napping in Andrew's drawer http://t.co/GwmvMDv #
• Zombies have infiltrated our borders and are running rampant through downtown Phoenix. #
• Some photos from tonight's photography walk in Downtown Phoenix (including some Zombies!): http://t.co/D6aIJrG #
• Ready to photograph stars tonight at Lake Pleasant Regional Park http://t.co/q1bU93P #
• Sunset over Lake Pleasant http://t.co/d0ugPaO #

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• There's something wrong with a 10-hour workday that lasts a full 13 hours. #
• Today is my first professional conference presentation. The topic? Using Predictive Analytics in Schedule Optimization for Student Success. #
• I think my presentation went well. We had 8 participants. Small, but we had lots of good discussion afterwards. #
• Google training today. I've learned one new thing (did you know Gmail has a lab for canned responses?) And have taught the trainer plenty. #
• Confession: Growing up, I always wondered why they were called "ring bears." #
• The Care Bears are coming to The Hub… but they're missing Good Luck Bear! #whatashame http://t.co/O1CKKRg #
• It's 106 degrees outside. I guess that means summer is here. #
• Lunch at Rudy's Bar-b-que in Chandler was delicious! Turkey and pulled pork, cream corn, bottled Coke… Super yum! http://t.co/kLDZGDI #
• Looked at more new cars today. Still can't decide between the Mercedes ML350, the GMC Acadia Denali and the new 2013 GMC Terrain Denali. #
• Yaaaaaawwwwwwwwwn! http://t.co/yQQOVaC #
• I finally found the 1855 New York Census entries for Abner Green and his father Parley Green. Now it's time to dig deeper! #genealogy #
• Remote start in our Honda Fit with the air conditioning set at full blast makes shopping in 105 degrees slightly more bearable. #
• Lunch at Boombozz Pizza was really good. Pretzel bread, yum! Fresh garlic, ham and green olives make a great pizza! http://t.co/aCD3isT #

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• Caught up on email this morning and event calendar planning. Finished the grocery shopping too. After lunch, I’m off to the symphony! #
• The symphony was nice and dinner at San Tan Brewery was delicious! I’m glad I hosted that event with CulturalAZ. #
• Dinner at Pei Wei was spicier than usual. Now, it’s time for board game night! #
• We played Rack-O and a new game called Munchkin. It’s like Magic Light or Magic for kids. Pretty fun! #
• Sundial display made of cactus plants at the Desert Botanical Gardens http://t.co/nbVidyK #
• “I wouldn’t say I’ve been missing it, Bob.” #
• Ever wonder what’s it’s like to drive into a massive dust storm? http://t.co/iTzyUwB #
• I received the most incredible portraits, letters & family tree from Andrew’s cousin in Poland, Roman Dominik! I am so grateful to him. #
• I have a sinking feeling that going back to bed would be a better idea than starting my day. #
• Some other Jessica Green has put my email address on Craig’s List associated with her property for sale. #fail #
• My team has 37 active projects (that I am aware of) and over 40 inactive projects. More get added daily, but none ever seem to finish. #
• My work day sounds like Animal Crossing. http://t.co/iqeuxYJ #
• Attention Jessica Green of Brockton, MA who is looking for a new house – STOP GIVING OUT MY EMAIL ADDRESS AS YOURS. #idiot #
• I think I just won the all-time record for the lowest score ever in Dominion. #curses http://t.co/4siIRof #
• Good morning, Saturday! #
• Here’s your Genealogy Tip of the Day: In German, Taufen means Baptism and Tote means Death. #
• Andrew is enjoying Kitty Piddle! Yum! http://t.co/qmWRh6j #
• Have I mentioned that @stampsgal TOTALLY ROCKS?!?!?! #
• The Wonka aisle at Sweeties Candy Store in Chandler http://t.co/dnLn94J #
• A small part of the Pez selection at Sweeties http://t.co/p96ZDNf #
• Our Saturday celebration of Mother’s Day 2012 was lots of fun! We had an excellent ham with fixins and played 3 rounds of The Logo Game. #
• Game night @ Beth’s was awesome. Skip-bo, Tsuro and 7 Wonders were all fun with our group of five players. #

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• Rocket Burgers & Subs has a soda shop at 35th Ave & Cactus with more than 300 soda varieties. #sugarjackpot http://t.co/iA2bgQP #
• Spent 90 mins walking through Brass Armadillo, a massive antique mall in North Phoenix. I found a few fun items to mess around with. #
• Had fun celebrating Amy's new job with her new 1 mile commute and the same pay! Enjoyed dinner @ BJ's and 2 rounds of Dominion. #
• I think I need to practice my calm voice. #
• There's a little cafe by my office with the most exceptional waitress. Always friendly, quick – she had my drink served before I sat down. #
• My promised my personal trainer that I would get back on track. That means eggs for breakfast and no more junk food. #imissmychipsalready #
• My lunch was terrible. #
• Nighttime snack – Roasted Garlic Cauliflower http://t.co/ZOL5Ao6 #
• Uh-oh. The Bobs are coming. "So, what exactly *do* you do?" #
• I saw The Five Year Engagement last night. It hit too close to home; it's another personal Up. #
• My brain is tired. I think it has officially been overworked. #timefortheweekend #
• Geez. You state the truth, and some people just can't handle it. I should know better than to be honest by now. #

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• My friend Lilla in Poland connected me with a researcher who is a member of the family of Michael Dominik. #genealogyscore #
• We just hacked out most of the Argentine Giant cactus growing against the front railing. It filled up 3 huge bins; we need a 4th to finish. #
• Checked out the annual Garden Railway Tour. Some enthusiasts transform their entire back yards into a model train set! http://t.co/Cx5aisi #
• Our garden is blooming beautifully this Spring! http://t.co/NB2smsw #
• I wish I didn't have to wait until I got home from work to know if my records requests are in the mail. #notapaperlesssociety #
• I'm bored with my workouts after work. It doesn't really seem to be doing much for me except making me sweaty and tired for the ride home. #
• Me: "Thanks for inviting me to lunch. It's nice to get out of the office." Boss: "This is a working lunch." #thingsishouldhaveknown #
• The Board approved a pay raise at work for everyone starting July 1. An extra $5k per year? I'll take it! #awesome #
• Everyone is abuzz at work since a new org structure was announced this morning. This means big changes for our IT department. #
• Today's Lunch & Laugh was fun at work today. We played a game called Chronology. I learned that I'm no good at historical dates. #
• Our garden is blooming! http://t.co/2V1bduB #
• Just walked 2.5 miles at the park w/some friends. It's 85 degrees – getting too hot for evening walks already. May have to break for summer. #
• I waited and waited to receive JJ's court record from 1934, and there's not even one single useful piece of info in it. #
• It amazes me how much money people spend on their homes. Who can afford $600k, $750k, $900k?? I thought $168k was a lot. #
• We played a few rounds of Dominion, I shopped on eBay from the couch, then we grilled S'mores and let the cats outside. #relaxingnight #
• TGIF. #
• I got the Leavenworth sentence court records!! Thank you NARA Chicago! http://t.co/fVlwoXW #
• Grandpa sold six bottles of home brew beer to an undercover Federal agent for $1.50. WHOOPS! #
• What's for dinner? Baked parmesan chicken, steamed broccoli and honey butter biscuits. Yum! #
• Friday night… What to do? No idea. #dinktweets #
• My Mom sent me her late husband's professional film camera & gear. It still has a roll of undeveloped film inside. I wonder what's on it? #
• Tumbles, you can't possibly be comfortable. http://t.co/GMFaHaR #
• I'm going to shoot the rest of the roll in my stepfather's camera and have it developed. It's over 12 years old. http://t.co/yiWFwBN #
• Well, here it is. The last picture my stepfather, Bob Kane, ever took with his camera – developed 13 years later. http://t.co/YRByMS3 #
• Maybe not. Mom took that one testing the camera. THIS is his final shot: http://t.co/8jCCaDk #
• Homemade Pizookie! http://t.co/dhzx7Ok #
• Oh yeah! http://t.co/GfQFdw9 #
• Synchronized napping! http://t.co/sNlRb3q #

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• It's a lazy Sunday morning. I indexed some 1940 Census records. Now I'm baking chocolate cupcakes to take to Mom's house this afternoon. #
• I was contacted by a descendent of Andrew M. Dreffs on http://t.co/ujfv23p. She is interested on working together on the Dreffs lineage! #
• Game day at the folks' house was fun! Apples to Apples, Wits and Wagers and What's Yours Like were all a hoot. Spinato's was yummy too. #
• I don't understand people who get 300+ emails per day and refuse to use filters to manage it all. #wastingmytime #
• What a difference 12 hours of sleep can make! I'm so glad I decided to go to bed super early last night. #refreshed #
• I walked around five miles yesterday. My legs sure do feel it this morning! #
• Our sunflowers are blooming! http://t.co/YbnqdOt #
• I've been very focused at work lately. It's cutting into my fun-time at home; my brain works way more more overtime than I want to admit. #
• I sat down tonight to read the latest Motor Trend and Consumer Reports magazines. I should do that more often. Lots of interesting stuff! #
• I love getting letters from the National Archives that say, "We've located the record you requested." #
• Our view for tonight's performance of The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses at the Orpheum Theatre in Phoenix. http://t.co/yOXMtSV #
• What a great show! It brought back so many fond memories of Hyrule, coins, heart containers and trying to save Princess Zelda. #
• It's 101 degrees outside. #desertlife #
• Lunch @ The Grove in Gilbert was pretty good. They have delicious garlic tater tots, and serve their burgers on a pretzel bun. Yum! #
• I'm telling you, Tumbles simply cannot pose for a decent picture. It's genetically impossible or something. http://t.co/D4UpdqK #
• "Damn it feels good to be a gangsta." – Geto Boys #
• I'm sitting at home on a Saturday afternoon waiting for the mail to arrive. This is what has become of my life. #genealogist #
• Game night in Scottsdale was a blast! Tonight we played Word on the Street, Seven Wonders of the World and Dictionary Babble (Balderdash). #

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• I love spending Easter with my honey @FloatingCat! #
• We spent Easter 2012 with Andrew's family. We played Apples to Apples and Dominion, and enjoyed a colorful 4-layer Easter cake. #
• I'm sending in an appeal for the FOIA request to the FBI for Walter Dreffs' criminal records. They said there are none but I have proof. #
• I feel like I should share something interesting, but I don't have anything interesting to share. #
• My doctor wants me to pay an additional $15 per month for the privilege to be seen by her. Isn't the $35 copay enough? #bullshit #
• I wish I had more hours in the day so I could index more of the 1940 Census. #
• I wish this terrible migraine would go away. #
• Tumbles is not the most photogenic kitty in the house. http://t.co/8nXGmbC #
• I'm following @TitanicRealTime for the 100th Anniversary. Lemme tell you, the shit's about to get REAL. #
• Friday night with East Valley Games was really fun! We played Ticket to Ride, Apples to Apples and the newest Dominion: Cornucopia. #
• Hello Saturday! Got up early, pulled weeds, put away Easter decor. Going to the Farmer's Market this morning and more board games tonight. #
• I can't believe how many advertisements I see on television for "Pure Michigan." Their office of commerce must have spent a fortune. #

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• My office is a giant mess because of all the photography stuff I pulled out for the workshop. Can't it just put itself away? #
• I'm going through every person on my 1940 Census list to identify exact addresses through City Directories and WWII draft records. #
• Out of 674 pages in a city directory, I just randomly chose the exact page the person I was looking for was listed on. #bizarreluck #
• States I'm ready to search in the 1940 Census: Arkansas, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri #
• Happy birthday to our kitties! Cheetoe is 11 and Tumbleweed is 9 today. They are both senior citizen kitties now. #
• Andrew just asked me what the song was on TV. Lucky for him, after deep thought he identified it as "Jessica" by The Allman Brothers. #
• Nine hours and counting. 1940 Census, I'm ready for you! #
• Twenty minutes and counting. I'm so excited! #
• Wow! http://t.co/ujfv23p is flying at posting the new 1940 Census images. About half of Indiana is already up there! #
• Even the live Webcast for the NARA launch is having trouble.. "The form doesn't work. Uh-oh!" #
• The site is responding perfectly fine, but the submission form is broken. #
• We're 20 minutes in, and the NARA search form still doesn't work. #
• Yay Megan!!! Bring those soldiers home! #
• "ERROR: The request could not be satisfied. Generated Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:37:29 GMT by cloudfront (CloudFront)" #boo #
• The issues with the launch of the 1940 Census were expected, although still disappointing. #
• I made it past the search screen! Now if only I could view an image… #
• I see my first 1940 Census image! Saginaw, ED 73-43. Walter Dreffs, I'm hunting you down! #
• I downloaded the entire ED 73-43 set of images and searched them. I found some Stroiks, but not Dreffs. Moving on to 73-48! #
• Yay for Ancestry who just posted the Porter County, Indiana census images! #
• I found my gg-grandparents Leroy & Minnie Cole, Indiana, Porter County, Valparaiso, ED 64-7, Sheet 4A, line 29. He has supplementals too! #
• My second find, g-grandparents Lyal & Agnes Cole, Indiana, Porter County, Valparaiso, ED 64-7, Sheet 9A, line 10. Uncle Blaine has Line 14! #
• My third find, g-grandparents George & Emma Fitzgerald, Indiana, Porter County, Valparaiso, ED 64-2, Sheet 2A, Line 2. Living with son Guy. #
• So far I'm very impressed with Ancestry. The images are loading quickly and they are crisp. I'm extremely lucky they chose Indiana first! #
• Grocery bill was $170 after discounts. #omg #
• Seriously Tumbles? That's my arm you're using as a footrest. http://t.co/xbciDm2 #
• I took vacation from work today to search the 1940 Census. #hardcoregenealogist #
• I found Robert Henry Kane, my late step-father, in the 1940 Census. He was 3 years old! #
• I found my little brother Noah's great-great-grandfather, Peter Joseph Zimmer, in the 1940 Census. They were on Pugg Road in St. Clair, MI. #
• I found my husband's great-grandparents Fred & Wava Green and most of their grown children in the 1940 Census – Pine Grove, Van Buren, MI. #
• I've found 25 families in the 1940 Census. I'm still hunting for the two most important – Walter Dreffs & Von Fitzgerald. #
• I found my grandmother Florence Fitzgerald with her parents Vondall & Jennie, along with 8 of her siblings in Eagle Creek, Lake Co, Indiana! #
• I also found her grandmother, May (Richards) Fisher, living nearby in Eagle Creek. She was 73 with a 10th grade education. Woohoo! #
• CAPTCHA is giving me words with foreign characters. How am I supposed to type those with my American English keyboard? #
• 1940 Census Awesome Name Alert: ARCHIE MCPHEE! Michigan, Saginaw, Saginaw City, ED 73-44B, Sheet 9A, Line 23. #
• 1940 Census Awesome Name Alert: OTTO CUFFPUFFER #
• 1940 Not-so-Awesome Name Alert: ARTHUR BUTT #
• Line 68: "Here ends jail." I bet the inmates wished that were the case, eh? #
• It's been two days and eight hours since the launch, and so far I've found 35 related families in the 1940 Census. #
• THE SEARCH IS OVER! I FOUND WALTER DREFFS IN THE 1940 CENSUS! #
• I don't even want to count how many EDs we had to search to find him. It was dozens of districts… hundreds of Census pages… #finally #
• We just filed our 2011 taxes. It's the first time we have ever owed money. #miscalulationssuck #
• Gilbert Mormon Temple – Under Construction http://t.co/DPsEqg8 #
• Day before Easter, and I'm at the grocery store buying eggs. Boy am I stupid or what? #
• My Sterling Silver rose is very happy with these 90 degree Spring days. http://t.co/sS3TNL1 #
• Just finished watching To Kill A Mockingbird with @stampsgal. It was a good movie! #
• Tonight I'm indexing 1940 Census entries from Kansas, Illinois and Oregon. #

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• Our Jessica Rose irises are blooming. Hello late Spring! http://t.co/IXJQ8Zo #
• Lazy Sunday. Cleaned the bathrooms, took portraits of the flowers in the garden, indexed some death records… Ahhh, weekends are lovely! #
• Dinner @ The Melting Pot in Chandler. Cheese, chicken & chocolate! Yum! http://t.co/22kIehJ #
• I received FOUR records in today's mail. That's a genealogical mega jackpot! #
• I've been indexing with the FamilySearch Index app for Android. I must say, it's really difficult to index snippets out of context. #
• My employee looked at my fancy black & white nail art and asked, "What's the theme here?" To which I responded, "Awesome." He just laughed. #
• I really need a break. I'm tired of running around with a virtual fire extinguisher. My brain is exhausted. #
• WHEEEEEEEooooooooooWHEEEEEEEEoooooooooooWHEEEEEEEooooooooo #firedrill #
• A colleague of mine submitted my original idea as a conference topic for me to speak about in front of 500 peers…without my knowledge. #
• The State of Michigan Department of State Police purges criminal records when the person reaches age 99. #bummer #
• At least someone is happy about my Photography class today. "Thanks for the new surface to rub on!" http://t.co/JICCKRR #
• I have a whopping 3 people coming to my Photography Workshop, down from 9 at one point. I wonder if those 3 will even show up? #
• All three showed up. I think I bored / confused them mostly. I just hope they picked up on one or two things while they were here. #

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