This weekend, I was pleased to have the opportunity to present as part of a special programming event of the Middle Tennessee Genealogy Society. We had a session yesterday afternoon loosely based on the concept of a roadshow/roundtable. Our session featured 4 major concepts; presenters were at 4 tables covering the following subjects: Computers in […]
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Back in 2015, I started the Genealogy Do-Over process. It was an opportune time to revisit my research & documentation procedures as it had been about 10 years since I’d started doing genealogy. At this time, I used it as a way to begin ensuring that I recorded my family tree info in FamilySearch Family
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Hat tip to DearMyrtle who shared news of Ancestry’s new app – We’re Related. The announcement stated that the app tells you what famous people you are related to – currently there are about 2,000 famous people in the database. Well, a very quick download later, the app told me I am related to President Harry
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Yay! I’ve got another article published in FGS Forum on using WordPress for genealogical society websites. If you are an FGS member or subscribe to the journal, be sure to go check it out! In the article, I’ve focused on providing real-life examples of how I’ve used WordPress across the many USGenWeb websites I’ve worked
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I have to share this cool news! For the TNGenWeb project I’ve done a blog post about a new beta version of a tool that FamilySearch is making available. The new tool (once it is out of beta) will make it easy to index their image-only collections “on-demand,” as well as creating an opportunity for
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I am so pleased to share that yesterday I held my very first Google Hangout on Air! I presented a webinar demonstrating how to contribute to an indexing initiative for student newspapers of historically black colleges and universities on behalf of my local chapter of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society. If you happen to
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I’m a huge fan of the work that is done by the CommonCraft team – Lee and Sachi. For several years now, they’ve blessed the internetz with fabulous explanation videos. As their tagline says – their product is “explanation.” Their whiteboard animation process really sparked a movement and we now see these types of videos
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Approximately 18 months ago I started using Evernote; that is, seriously using it. It took me awhile to jump on the bandwagon because I am a Google Drive user and I found GDrive to be meeting my needs. At the same time though, I wanted to make sure I knew how to use Evernote and
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Then you need to sign up for my upcoming, free webinar – “Genealogy News at Your Fingertips: From RSS Feeds to Digital Magazine Platforms.” I was honored to be selected to do this webinar as part of the Southern California Genealogical Society’s 2013 Jamboree Extension Series. The focus of the webinar is to guide
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Have you used Treelines.com yet? I would highly suggest checking it out – it’s a great site that allows you to create visually interesting stories. I learned about the site after learning that the site developer, Tammy Hepps, had won the 2013 Rootsweb Developer Challenge. Ever-so-ready to explore new tools, I quickly signed up for
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