Thanks again to all that turned out for last night’s webinar with DearMyrtle on using WordPress for your genealogy site. In this part of the series, we focused on using the self-hosted version of WordPress. From installing it on your server , going through the initial setup checklist, to choosing from all the plugins, it […]
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With the 1940 census index just weeks away from potentially being finished, I am finally taking some time to explore more individuals in my tree. Last night, I did some searching on Kalonji’s side of the family and found a bit of an intrigue. Naturally, it kept me up way past my bedtime! 😀 I
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Last night we had another great webinar on WordPress! We had around 75 attendees or so as I checked throughout the session. While last week we introduced everyone to WordPress and looked at the .com hompage, this time we really spent time going through most of the features of the Dashboard. We covered a lot,
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Check out my latest blog post for the TNGenWeb Project. It’s a must-read. You won’t want to miss it! 🙂
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Tonight was a great night! I completed my very first full webinar and had the opportunity to start teaching how to use WordPress! Many thanks to DearMyrtle for offering it and extending the invitation to me to teach it. During tonight’s webinar, I shared information on the history of WordPress, it’s overall philosphy and gave
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This is a morbid post, but I have to do it! The other night while perusing my feed reader, I saw this article from the Annals of Epidemiology. (yeah, I have scientific journals in my feed reader – how else is a gal supposed to keep up with the medical literature for work! :-)) I
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Oh how I love genealogy! Tonight, while doing a little Twitter reading, I saw Thomas post that Ancestry has put the NY State Census indexes online for 1892, 1915, and 1925. Excitedly, I quickly hopped over to the Ancestry site to search 1925 for I expected to be able to find my great-grandparents – Lewis
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As if my Memorial Day Weekend didn’t already get off to a good start, Day 2 was also incredible. Today the family and I spent time accompanied by 4 visitors from Spain. One in particular, Carol, is on the search for her family here in Nashville. Carol is the daughter of an English woman
If I never felt like a genealogist, boy, I sure do now! It all started simply enough. An email from my friend Kay Lynn, who volunteers with me in the NCGenWeb project: …while cleaning out and going thru all my genealogy books I came upon a few Washington County cemeteries that were surveyed in 1936.. would
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This Memorial Day Weekend, as it’s traditionally held, my McNair branch of the family is having their 40th Annual Reunion. Started in 1972, I am amazed and proud of its longevity! I’ve not yet been to one, but my maternal grandmother, Alice McNair Robinson, used to go often and has shared with me details about
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