Cruising around the blogosphere and the web to find hope and inspiration in Genealogy, and Space Exploration. For some reason I dove into history and then leaped into the future.

Genealogy:

Here is a helpful blog site which describes determining strategies and goals in conducting family research and includes links to other helpful links:

Genealogy with Valerie:

http://genealogywithvalerie.wordpress.com/2014/06/20/genealogy-goals-vs-strategies/

Here is another interesting story related to genealogy but a different twist in that the article focuses on saving and restoring an 1841 American whaling ship. A small group of  passengers with unique interests have opportunity to sail on the historic ship:

Australian National Maritime Museum:

http://anmm.wordpress.com/2014/06/18/ancestral-pursuits-aboard-a-historic-american-whaler/

Space Exploration:

For those that are inspired to know the latest in exploring Mars here is a site dedicated to space exploration and updates from the International Space Station. One of the latest stories is about the the Martian rover, Curiosity:

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/06/22/mars-rover-curiosity-drive-reverse-spare-damaged-wheels/

And here is an interesting article of a NASA engineer physicist working on the first space warp ship:

http://communityofreaders.org/2014/06/21/nasa-just-designed-the-baal-shem-tovs-wagon/

To find another very interesting article about this read:

http://www.startrek.com/article/nasas-latest-warp-drive-design-looks-very-familiar