About Pat Geary – Microsoft MVP – Expression Web
I live in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia with my husband Jim. We have been married 25 years in October and between us we have seven children – five daughters (his), two sons (mine) – and twelve grandchildren, two step-grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. We are the proud parents of Katie, a golden retriever/husky mix who we got from our local SPCA. At age four she is FINALLY growing out of puppyhood.
My hobby for many years has been counted cross stitch and I maintain two sites to share that hobby – Pat’s Cross Stitch Corner and the Geary Family Homestead. Sadly, the homestead still needs some work.
Then I got started on a new endeavor, website design. It became a passion. The more I learned, the more I wanted to learn. Then I needed to do something with this knowledge.
- First I created a site to share our genealogy research which you can check out on my Family Genealogy site. While we no longer travel to do on site research, it is still a hobby I very much enjoy.
- Then I volunteered as the webmaster for our religious home, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Harrisonburg VA. and for my local DAR chapter.
- Jim’s Writings – a site I set up for my husband to share his writings with his daughters and anyone else who might be interested.
This site and Genealogy Web Creations are two sites I set up so I can pursue my passion of website design while “paying it forward” to help others as I have been helped on my journey. In April of 2007, I was designated a Microsoft MVP – FrontPage. I was also recently honored to be featured on the RootsWeb Volunteer Spotlight for my contributions to the RootsWeb Communities.
If you are a genealogist using either FrontPage or Expression Web and maintain a site on one of the Rootsweb servers, come join us.
So pull up a chair, be careful of your cup of coffee if it is near your keyboard and browse the contents of any of my sites.
Mrs. Geary, Noticed you are tracing geneology of the Little family in Alabama. I found information pertaining to Eliza Battle Little. The “ELIZA BATTLE” was a steamboat named after Eliza Little. I believe I read her Father was CPT. The ELIZA BATTLE sank in the Tombigbee River in CHOCTAW County Alabama on the night of MAR 1 1858. She is now refered to the ghost ship of the Tombigbee mentioned in the book 13 ghosts of Alabama and Jeoffrey. You may already have this info but I came across the story of THE ELIZA BATTLE by typing in ELIZA BATTLE and became engrossed in the story and then came across your site. Hope this helps in some way. C L Williams FireFighter Bayou La Batre, AL
I live within 20 miles of where this happened. at certain times of the year you can go to the landing near where this happened and you can hear the ship coming down the river. The al of a sudden you can hear people screaming and you can the fire coming down the river. It only lasts a few minutes. If the weather is the same that it was the night o March 1, 1858 foggy and little on the cold side you can really hear it and see it and even hear the people as they are jumping in the river. The reports of this has still been happening just in the last few years. While the landing in no longer in use to the public you can still go down the road and go to the river abnk and walk up the river and wait for it. It is amazing to hear and see