Back in October, I posted about my desire to see more genealogy societies and organizations leveraging webconference technology. For those of us that may be interested in attending but aren’t able to physically make it, I wondered if there would be a push from any group to do this kind of e-conference activity. […]
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I have an idea. I’m always on the lookout for something that will help me capture information most effectively for my genealogical research and I like to experiment. This morning, I’ve seen a product that I’m interested in trying out – a hand wand portable scanner. This portable hand scanner allows you to scan books,
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I know I shouldn’t be shopping for me, but, an opportunity presented itself to me this afternoon and I could not say no. Background: Last week I emailed a co-worker of mine who has years of photography experience to ask a question. I wanted to know how I could rig a set-up like this. so
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Oooh – this is the ultimate of cool. Okay, so I spent my Thanksgiving night in complete geekdom, but I’m loving it! Tonight, I made one of my websites smartphone compatible! One of my genea-duties (is that a word?) is serving as the webmaster for the NCGenWeb project. I became webmaster in July and have
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Some random thoughts from me as I’ve pondered this over the past several weeks. Are there any genealogy societies out there that Skype in (or use other videoconferencing apps) to the meeting people who wish to participate but are not able to physically be there? Over the past few months, I’ve seen some interesting articles
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This week I have not been very involved with my own family genealogy. I started classes again this week, so during the week I am very busy with them. However, this weekend, I did spend some time working on various genealogy related projects. On Saturday, I worked some more on a resource I’m putting together
At the close of Day 2, I’ve marked off two additional tasks in my list of goals. Category 4: Write, Write, Write Task: Participate in a genealogy or family history related blog carnival. Accomplishment: I contributed a post for the 4th edition of Smile for the Camera. When I saw that one of the options
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Being a librarian, I have been using a resource called WorldCat for about 10 years now, since I was in library school. In the past few years, the company that provides WorldCat has made it more open and available online for anyone to search and find out which libraries hold a book of particular interest.
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Randy has posted about his desire to have the ability to generate date-specific lists in genealogy software. So far, he’d been unsuccessful in locating a software program that gave him the ability to generate a list of people who had events on a certain day. For example, generate a list of people in his database
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Last week Ancestry made changes to their member profiles pages – see announcement on their blog. I’ve taken a few minutes to update my profile and after doing so, I think this is a good move. The comments on that blog post are filled with a lot of negative comments, but I’m pleased by what