Category Archives: Technology

As I mentioned earlier this week, I am participating in the Simple Gifts Blog Hop sponsored by Flip-Pal™.  Things have been so crazy this week, I’ve only been able to play around with the scanner for about an hour.  I hope to get started on […]

Well, Happy Halloween to me!  Boy did I get a treat! As I was coming home today, the UPS guy was right behind me and I knew he was going to follow me home…and he did…with my new Flip-Pal™ Mobile Scanner in hand!

First, a BIG thank you to two wonderful people who took the time to transcribe and translate the birth record I found for my second great-grandmother.  You can read more about the record and see the transcription and translation in the comments in my post […]

A few days ago, I caught a quick glimpse of a discussion in a Facebook group about DNA tests and DAR proofs.  I didn’t have much time to read the whole discussion, but the gist was that the DNA results were not accepted as proof, […]

**An up-to-date listing can be found in my list “Societies Using Social Media” at the social bookmarking website, Diigo.** As I was preparing a contact list for Illinois genealogical and historical societies for an FGS publicity task, I made an interesting discovery.  A fair number […]

In Search Strategies:  Ancestry – Part 2 I discussed the use of Soundex and wildcard searches.  In Part 3, we’ll look at targeting search results.

In Search Strategies:  Ancestry – Part 1 I showed you how to set up the search screen that I personally use, which gives you more control and usually better results.  Part 2 will discuss various tips for conducting actual searches with this setup using Soundex […]

Ancestry is probably one of your top go-to databases when conducting general research.  For me personally, I like to start by building a family using census records and then move onto vital records.  Once I have a pretty good feel for the family structure (including […]