Category Archives: Advice & How-To

I have no idea how long this feature on Google Maps has been around, but I’m sure glad I found it… Back story:  A month or so ago, I wanted to see where my maternal and paternal grandparents lived in relation to one another.  I looked at Google Maps and Yahoo! Maps for something that would allow me to tag several locations, but came up empty.  Being the impatient person that I am, I gave up.  But then…

Amir Dekel over at I Dream of Genea(logy) posted an interesting research question about who to include in the ever-growing tree.  This is a question I myself had after I kept adding people that really had no “direct” relationship.  I started to respond to Amir’s post via a comment, but it’s a little hard to explain in such a short amount of space.  Plus, I believe in visuals, so I decided to do a post instead.

So many blogs, yet so little time to constantly update my link list on my blog.  My solution? Well since many of the blogs I follow (over 100) are using Blog Network on Facebook, I cheat and just add a link to my Blog Network page.   When anyone clicks on the link, they’re taken to my Blog Network page, which lists all the blogs I follow. Personally, I think it’s great for several reasons: I don’t have to remember to go and add new blogs. I’m not limited to […]

It’s amazing how much information I actually have for many of my relatives.  The problem:  I didn’t know it until a few months ago. I had the obvious sources:  birth/death/marriage certificates, obituaries, memorial/funeral cards, and the like.  And of course I used the sources to figure out names, dates, places, relationships, etc.  And while I knew I had other items, I thought them to be unessential for my research.  And then it hit me…

I’m still very new to the whole blogging world.  Even though I have an extensive knowledge in web design, I am finding it difficult to customize the LiveJournal blog.  Although I am fairly satisfied with my current blog, there were many things I wasn’t able to do until I stumbled upon Windows Live Writer (WLW).  So I thought I’d pass along a review of the application.

Because my mom lives in constant fear of forest fires, she has an evacuation plan in place.  Instead of fretting over what to take during a stressful evacuation, she grabs the list and starts packing.  Even though I don’t live in constant threat of forest fires, there are several other disasters that could occur.