Approximately two years ago, I created an online site to help me organize all the great books and resources I was finding on the Internet Archive’s website. I call it my Genealogy Digital Bookshelf. I have been posting to it sporadically, but have been using it pretty regularly as my genealogy research takes me from state […]
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This summer, I did my first webinar sessions – they focused on WordPress and DearMyrtle was my lovely and gracious co-host. I had a wonderful time doing them. More recently, I was given another opportunity – a chance to submit an webinar idea for the Southern California Genealogical Society. Last year they started a webinar
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Yesterday, Mocavo.com released a new collection of yearbooks. I was so ecstatic to see this! I enjoy looking through old yearbooks. A couple of years ago I created a yearbook index for the NCGenWeb Project. To date, I’ve indexed more than 30,000 names from close to 500 yearbooks. And where did those yearbooks come
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I am completely ecstatic tonight! Over the weekend, my father visited his stepmother (whom he had not seen in over 20 years) and got some pictures of his father! My grandfather, William Koonce Sr., passed away in 1976 when I was six months old, so I never knew him. And, until tonight, I’d only seen
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Of course we are familiar with many biases that occurred with census taking throughout history, but this is still hard to see, especially in print. I found this today while indexing the Roanoke Beacon newspaper for my Washington County, NCGenWeb site.
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While indexing some old issues of Winston-Salem State University’s yearbooks tonight for the NCGenWeb Yearbook Index, I found another relative! This time, I found Lossie Viola McNair (1923-2008). Lossie is a member of the 1946 graduating class and the yearbook shows that her nickname was “Mae.” Later on in the yearbook, in the “Who’s
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Last week, in the Facebook group Technology for Genealogy, Thomas MacEntee shared a link to a MakeUseOf.com article about the Chrome extension, Awesome New Tab page. Since iGoogle is going away, this could be a possible replacement. I’ve never really been a user of iGoogle – though, I did have a page configured. I never
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When the 1940 US Community Census Project was announced, I wondered if I’d even take the time to participate. However, I quickly realized this would be a great opportunity to become more familiar with the FamilySearch Indexing software and give back at the same time. Soon after signing up, I decided to go ahead and
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Wow! What a great couple of months it has been! I’ve recently completed my 4-part webinar series with DearMyrtle on using WordPress for your genealogy website and have been ever so pleased with the outcome. Myrt is a wonderful hostess and everyone’s questions throughout the series really helped shape the content. Thanks to everyone! I
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Don’t you just love it when you visit a library and they are on the ball when it comes to using technology? I visited the Tennessee State Library & Archives yesterday and was happy to learn that they now have a digital book scanner. Scanning book pages to USB is a dream come true –
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