How to Share My Blog Another Way ~

I have been wracking my brain to find other ways of sharing my blog. I am not a Twitter person but I do share on Pintrest and Facebook. I also save my blog posts to my computer, external hard drive and cloud as well as Dropbox. I want to share what I have come up with because I think it is easy and a great way to preserve the posts we write for future generations.

The fantastic idea I came up with is a simple 4 step process so that I can attach each of the post(s) I have written to the appropriate family or family members I have discussed in my blog. I have only done this with Ancestry and Family Tree Maker 2014. I have no idea if it will work in other programs such as Legacy Family Tree and Roots Magic.

Here are the steps I took:

•  I pulled up my profile Samuel Edgar Nelson Plowden (1777-1841) in my Ancestry Tree and clicked on Gallery and then "I want to upload a story."
• I went back to my post, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ Samuel Edgar and Agness DuPree Plowden" and proceeded to copy the entire post (including the pictures) and pasted it into the word processer program I use with Google Drive.
• Then I renamed the document and saved it to my computer. I checked to be sure the pictures were in the document.
• I then uploaded the new pdf file I created with Google Drive to Ancestry.com. I filled in the description box with the title of my post, the name & location of the cemetery and the appropriate link. I used the date of the post for the date entry.

For many of my fellow Geneabloggers, this may not work for you because you all have been blogging much longer than I, however I do hope that you give it try! If you are new to blogging or have been blogging for a year or so like me I this is doable. I have already started scheduling the time to add these posts to my original tree in Ancestry. I am shooting for 6 to 8 stories per day. Now if something were to happen to my blog, or one of my other backup methods, I will be able to find the post in yet another place, Ancestry and Family Tree Maker.

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Samuel Edgar and Agness DuPree Plowden

Photos are courtesy of Wade Chewning 2015

These are the tombstones of one set of my children's 4th great paternal grandparents, Samuel Nelson and Agness DuPree Plowden. Samuel and Agness were married in 1812 in South Carolina and they had 6 known children. Their son, Edwin Ruthven Plowden is my children's 3rd great grandfather. They are buried in the Nelson-Plowden-Haynsworth Cemetery in Clarendon County, South Carolina. At the bottom of Agness's stone are the initials "W. T. White", I am not sure if the quote is from him or if he was the stone mason. A search of Google and Bing yielded no results.

The inscription on Samuel's tombstone is: 

Sacred

To the Memory of 

Samuel Edgar Plowden

A Ruling Elder

In the Presbyterian Church

Who departed this life 

The 11th of July 1841

Aged 64 Years, 3 Months

And 20 Days

Having held fast the profession

Of his faith, without wavering,

He sweetly fell asleep in Jesus

Sustain'd and Cheer'd

By the gracious declaration

He is faithful, that promised 

The inscription on Agness's tombstone is:

In

Memory of 

Agness DuPree Plowden

Consort of

Samuel Edgar Plowden

Born 5th of April 1777

Died 24th of August 1851

She was a true friend

An affectionate wife

A tender Mother

And an humbled Christian

Far from this world of toil and _____

She's present with the Lord. 

"The labors from her mortal life

have met a rich reward."

W.T. White

Sources: 

Mr. Wade Chewning, photographs, ca. 2014, digital images, personal email correspondence

F. C. Wheeler, photograph, ca. 2015, digital image, Ancestry.com (http://mv.ancestry.com/viewer/2748c32d-741e-479d-bfd3-3b3a1f5ead58/77227586/42359935719 : accessed 4 August 2015), used for clarification purposes only on the inscription.