Genealogy is all about location right? Well, what better way to map out the coverage of my genealogy book collection than to try and use Pinterest’s new Place Pins feature announced earlier this week. While, I could of course, use Google Maps to do this, Pinterest has a strong visual component that I believe makes […]
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If you are a regular reader of my blog, then you may know that I am a huge proponent for collaborative genealogy – specifically, platforms for working on family trees and genealogical information via shared tools where multiple contributors work together. Well, I recently stumbled across Wikipedia’s Visual Editor and it’s awesome! I have contributed
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FindMyPast has recently announced their partnership with the Allen County Public Library to revolutionize the PERiodical Source Index (PERSI) – a database well known to many genealogists. PERSI is a fabulous resource in that the ACPL has, over the past 30 years, been indexing publications from genealogy society newsletters and journals. However, as great as
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I’ve had great fun this weekend catching up with RootsTech activity. From the formal web streams, to blog posts, and videos produced by those on site, I’ve truly enjoyed it. Among my favorite of the material I took in this weekend though was to hear the update from Ron Tanner on FamilySearch’s Family Tree. After
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This week concluded with an interesting experience for me – I participated in a market research interview for a genealogy company – AppleTree.com. AppleTree is a collaborative genealogy website. They contacted me because of my past blog posts on collaborative genealogy, probably most specifically a post I made about Geni.com and my initial thoughts on
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When BillionGraves launched just prior to Memorial Day I was quite excited at its availability. Though it was initially offered as an iOS app and I don’t have an iPhone, I enjoyed perusing the website and using what was available there. I wrote a blog post outlining my initial impressions. I am a power techie
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Would you like to help me test a website I’m working on? If so, you could win a prize! What You Could Win: A 12-month Geni.com PRO account Geni.com is a collaborative genealogy website with more than 100 million individual profiles. The free account gives you the ability to create an online family tree w/
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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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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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Though I’m unable to attend the FGS Annual Conference in nearby Knoxville, I plan to follow along as much as I can via blog posts, Twitter feeds & Facebook status updates. However, I started thinking about what I’d hoped to have gained from attending FGS and much of it centers on what I perceive as
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