Tuesday, January 30th, 2007 at
1:30 pm
I found a file on WorldConnect that ties directly into my database. Lots of cousins I wouldn’t likely find another way. Lots of well-documented census research already done. So far, so good.
Then the trouble started. Question marks and AKA’s in the name fields. Social Security numbers, cemeteries, occupations and zip codes in the Master Location list. Social Security numbers and burials in the Event description and place fields. Forty-five counties that don’t exist for the right time period. Twenty-five locations that don’t seem to exist at all. Burials listed as baptisms. Sources that don’t fit with my own hard-earned system that all have to be rewritten.
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Friday, January 26th, 2007 at
1:20 pm
If my computer was an ocean I could accurately say I am swimming in photographs.
If you are still using Windows Explorer to view and work with your photos, there are better ways.
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Monday, January 22nd, 2007 at
12:19 pm
Online backup solutions seem to be everywhere these days.
If you’re a WinZip user you’ve probably received an email offering a trial of Carbonite, a very user-friendly online backup service. If not, here’s the news. They are offering unlimited backup space for a full year for $49.95.
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Thursday, January 18th, 2007 at
12:02 pm
From Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter:
Footnote, Inc. made a big splash in the genealogy community a few days ago when the company announced an agreement with the National Archives and Records Administration to place digital images of millions of original documents online. Four and a half million images are already available at www.footnote.com, and that number is growing fast. Footnote CEO Russell Wilding stated, “We will continue to add millions of original documents and images monthly.”
Continue reading here.
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007 at
12:00 pm
I once imported a gedcom with at least 75 cemetery names in the Master Location List, as well as innumerable place names in multiple formats. I’m sure this gedcom did not come from a Legacy Family Tree user because Legacy has a ream of quick tools for keeping the location lists tidy and we all use them, of course. What took some time was outside Legacy tracking down the cemeteries in an area with an inordinate number of similarly-named churches and graveyards within a few blocks of each other.
If you’re interested in this sort of thing, and haven’t been there for awhile, (or ever) here’s a checklist of some simple things to do.
