Category Archives: Technology

The following press release was issued by Funium LLC. Funium LLC, of Lehi, Utah announces the launch of Family Village Premier on Facebook. The social media game is oriented toward helping people have fun building their family tree and help them discover interesting documents and information concerning their ancestors and family members using Facebook. In the Alpha version of the game launched last September the game grew to 92,000 users. With input from the players and with help from former Disney executives the game has a wonderful fun game flow […]

I received the following details after the winners were announced at Friday’s keynote session.  Some of these look pretty interesting. Congratulations to the winners of the of the RootsTech Developer Challenge!

Imagine my surprise when I opened Christmas presents and discovered the Kindle Fire among the bunch.  I hadn’t asked for it, since I had just gotten a regular Kindle for Christmas the year before and it was working just fine for me.  While I knew there were plenty new features with Kindle Fire, I was quite content with my plain-Jane Kindle.  But I gotta say, I’m very impressed with Kindle Fire.  Here’s why: Tablet-Like To me, the Kindle Fire is similar to a tablet-style laptop.  You can do a ton […]

A few weeks ago I ran a contest to give my readers a chance to win a free registration to RootsTech 2012 Conference. But in order to enter, they had to answer the following question: Besides access to records online, what one tech-thing has helped you the most with your genealogy research and how has it helped you?

I am very pleased to announce Doug Williams as the winner of the RootsTech 2012 free registration giveaway that was hosted here on GenBlog.  I asked entrants to answer the following question:  Besides access to records online, what one tech-thing has helped you the most with your genealogy research and how has it helped you?

Like many of us, I have several photo albums where the photos are helplessly stuck to the pages.  Removing them can damage the photos and trying to scan a giant (not to mention heavy and awkward) album on a flatbed scanner is difficult and time-consuming. Thus the beauty of the Flip-Pal™ Mobile Scanner.  All you have to do is lay it over a photo, scan, and move onto the next.  I did an entire photo album in about an hour, while sitting in my recliner watching TV (30 pages, double-sided, […]

As a RootsTech 2012 official blogger, I am happy to announce that I have a free registration to give away for the RootsTech 2012 Conference in Salt Lake City, February 2-4, 2012.  So I’m holding a little contest here and the winner will receive the free registration. Please only enter if you intend on going to the conference.  The contest runs through 8PM (Central) on Friday, November 18, 2012.

Last weekend, I started to experiment with my new Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner.  And although I’ve not been able to do much with it this last week (been away for a few days) I have been thinking about what “gifts” I’m going to work on.  I’ve had a few ideas in mind, but hadn’t really committed to any of them.  Since this Blog Hop ends on the 25th, I figured I’d better commit to something, which I will start posting about soon.  In the meantime, I put together a demonstration of […]