About Taneya
September 14, 2007 by taneya
So you wanna know about me huh? Well, I am a librarian- a medical librarian. I love helping connect people to information, especially medical information. My intrinsic librarianship skills manifest themselves in my hobbies as well. From about 1997-2004 my main hobby was cross-stitching. Then, in 2004, I had my daughter Kaleya and witnessed my time for stitching rapidly deteriorate 
Then, in early 2006, I became obsessively interested in my family tree and have been hooked to genealogy since then. I also dabble with digital scrapbooking.
I still stitch, but not nearly as much. Genealogy has become my number one hobby of choice right now and I work not only on my trees, but my husband’s, my friends, - just about any tree I can get my hands on. Each family history helps me learn a new set of records, and with that I learn!
I live in Nashville, TN. Have my daughter and four wonderful stepsons, and a very loving, caring and all-around great husband, Kalonji.
I also maintain several other blogs:
- My primary blog - where I post information about our family life, and my cross-stitch when I get to it!
- African-American Nashville History & Genealogy - I was looking for a way to give back to the genealogy of Nashville and found a niche with this one.
- Blount County Blog — In October 2007 I volunteered to be the site coordinator for the Blount County, TN usgenweb site. Again, another way for me to give back to Tennessee genealogy. I re-designed the site and started a blog to further engage with those interested in that county.
- Roanoke Beacon Blog — information from an old newspaper of Washington County, North Carolina.
- Kinston Free Press Blog - information from an old newspaper of Lenior County, North Carolina
- Talladega Daily Home Blog - information from newspaper of Talladega County, Alabama. This one is not going so well as I still don’t have good digital access to the newspaper. I’ll probably address that in Summer of 2008.
- Vanderbilt Family Genealogy - because I have this weird obsession with the Vanderbilt family (I do work at Vanderbilt after all!), I decided to study their genealogy and created this blog to share and connect with other Vanderbilt researchers.
- My Digital Scrapbooking Blog – something I dabble in. Haven’t really done anything in awhile, but plan to get back into it Summer 2008.
Hi Taneya,
I have “Google Alerts” for the word “Genealogy” your blog on customizing came up. It sounds like you know what you are doing. I am a novice but I like what you did.
Please give me your evaluation of the Master Genealogist. I have heard a lot about it, too, but my time is too stretched for me to tackle it right now. I haven’t figured out what sets it apart from the other programs.
My best wishes for a Happy New Year.
MBT Ü
Hi Taneya,
I am just beginning to explore blogging, and genealogy blogging in particular. Your blog is the first I’ve seen by an African-American and I am enjoying reading your entries and your website. You’ve done a very nice job. I’ve added it to my ‘favorites’ and will check back again. Maybe one day I can get my own blog started - after I organize all my research! Thanks!
Roz
Hi Taneya
Great site, I also have family ties in Lenoir County and have been researching and putting togeather my maternal Whitfield tree togeather for about a year now. Interesting I found my great grandfather Haywood Whitfield in the the 1910 , 1920 and 1930 census with his wife and family (my grandfather,greataunt, greatuncle) as well as his WW1 Draft registration card but cannot find any record of him prior to that . Although his name is Henry Haywood Whitfield I have found him listed as Howard , Harvey, Henry and Haywood. When I found your Kinston Free Press Blog I suscribed right away. North Carolina has great resources but limited when it comes to African American. I have been more sucessful with my great grandmother’s line finding her in the census with her mother and father an great aunts and uncles in the 1900 census. Thank You for sharing