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One of my favorite local sources for genealogy information is the former black-owned and operated newspaper, The Nashville Globe. It was founded in 1906 and ran until 1960. Over the past several years I’ve extracted data from the paper and posted it on my blog, Black Nashville. Soon after starting that blog, I learned that
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A week ago Friday night while participating in the GeneaBloggers Blog Talk Radio session I won a 3-month “Pro” subscription to Geni.com. I am quite excited! When I read the description of the session and learned that Noah Tutak, CEO of the company, would be interviewed, I knew I needed to listen. I have had
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This weekend we attended an art show and one of my favorite pieces was this one called “Tree of Life.” I thought it was appropriate for a genealogy post 🙂 Read more about our night on my main family blog.
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This weekend I reached a milestone on Find-A-Grave. Since joining in 2007 I have added over 1,000 photos to the site! I know there are contributors that do a lot more, but I was pleased to reach this milestone 🙂 Let’s see how long it takes me to get to 2,000. In addition to the
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While at Walgreens the other night, my six-year old sees cameras and says Mommy, can I get my own camera so I can use it when we go to the cemetery? Well, she definitely gets engaged when we go to the cemetery, often asking to be in at least one picture and demanding me to
On Saturday afternoon, the hubby kidnapped us and decided that we were going to drive around aimlessly for awhile before getting something to eat. Our driving led us north of Nashville and in nearby Joelton. Well, guess what we saw along the way? A church cemetery! Being the good genealogist that I am,
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I just can’t do anything with it. Inspired by RootsTech I finally decided to further investigate something I’ve been curious about – how to go about creating apps for Android & iPhone. I am so not a programmer/developer but I’ve heard of programs that allow non-developers to create apps and tried a few of them.
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For my professional work I am a knowledge management information specialist. That means I help people manage and organize information. It is clear to me that I was meant to do this for I LOVE to work with and organize information. With the explosion that occurred this past weekend with RootsTech I saw an opportunity
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Yesterday I posted details on how to follow along to the Tools of Change in Publishing conference hosted by O’Reilly Media. Books + technology is their focus. Well, I realized last night that there is another conference I wish to keep my eye on – Educause. This group is about Education + technology. EDUCAUSE is
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