Information, tips, and other interesting finds on this personal journey
While doing genealogy research, I end up going to Wikipedia a lot to do many things from finding locations of cities in Europe to finding which county a city is in. It takes a few steps to browse to Wikipedia, then to the English version, and then try to find my entry. Google Chrome and Mozilla … [Read more...]
My wife, Darcy, made me aware of Pinterest. She does a lot of work with the web and is always finding these new, interesting sites. Pinterest is best described by a story about it on the MySanAntonio website: [Pinterest is] a "virtual pinboard." Creative types often use actual pinboards or … [Read more...]
Geniaus created The Tech-Savvy Genealogist Meme, I borrowed it from Genea-Musings. This one is more up my alley since I've been involved in technology since I was a little boy. The list should be annotated in the following manner: Things you have already done or found: bold face type Things you … [Read more...]
I thought I would write a post on how to convert one of your ancestor's Land Records into an actual physical location. Right now, I only have the information on how to do this in Wisconsin with the resources that they have available. Other states may have these items available too. Your mileage may … [Read more...]
From Geneabloggers.com: The meme is called "What I Do" and you basically list what you use in terms of technology to either run your genealogy business or pursue your family history as a hobby. Why is this important? Very often we operate in a vacuum. We have no idea what other people are … [Read more...]
I had some crazy idea earlier this week on something I wanted to develop for the site. I thought, what if people were able to hover over links that I have to my family tree section and get some basic information on that person without ever having to leave the post? Well, it went from idea to … [Read more...]
I recently re-installed the Family Tree area of my website. You won't really notice anything different, but I had to do some back-end stuff. It's been awhile since I had originally installed the site, so it became pretty confusing. A clean install is much nicer. But, along with this new install, … [Read more...]
Today I was browsing some of the professional genealogy society-type websites. I hope to one day become certified in some sort of genealogy-related area. I know that I'll enjoy doing genealogy for the rest of my life and hopefully I'll be able to help others. The first one I came to was Board for … [Read more...]
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