Before the stroke of midnight on Halloween I am going to delete the old JLog feed. You are going to be flung into outer space by your severed umbilical cord IF you do not update the feed address which is now http://feeds.feedburner.com/jgen/icWw

You know what they say: If you love something let it go. All you beloved subscribers, if you find your way back then I’ll know you really truly love me.

Other 10%, let us pray. Amen.

NEW YORK and PROVO, Utah, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ — Today Ancestry.com, part of The Generations Network, Inc., announced it has introduced the world’s largest online collection of Jewish family history records. Ancestry.com has partnered with two leading organizations committed to the preservation of Jewish heritage — JewishGen, an affiliate of the Museum of Jewish Heritage –A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York City that maintains the world’s premier Jewish genealogy website, and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), an overseas humanitarian aid organization committed to providing relief for Jews in more than 70 countries. These partnerships will make millions of important Jewish historical documents available on Ancestry.com, many of which are online for the first time ever and searchable for free. These unique records, including photographs, immigration records, Holocaust records and memorials, can now be searched alongside other records already accessible on Ancestry.com, creating the largest collection of Jewish family history records on the Web with more than 26 million records documenting Jewish life.

Have you ever wanted to search and replace more than a single line of text?

All the text editors I’ve used will only search and replace one line at a time. And this is not always workable. There may be ways around that I haven’t discovered yet. If I only need to search and replace a few times, I’ll use the usual copy and paste. But last night I had a job to do that would have required doing it manually over 300 times.

What I found is a text editor called PsPad. It’s a great little (free) text editor, available in several languages and much better than Window’s Notepad (if you’re still using only that).

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It shocks me to realize how much of the life I take for granted is on my computer. Not anywhere on paper I can hold in my hand. Thousands of family history files and photographs, contacts, email, financial files … Thousands and thousands of hours of work. The thought of any of it disappearing leaves me breathless.

You’ve heard it all before. Computer crashes are not a matter of if, only when. Fortunately, my computer crashes happened after I started a serious backup routine.

Everything required for a secure backup plan nowadays is affordable and simple to use. Not backing up your files is inexcusable considering the potential loss.

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If you are using Internet Explorer and notice large gaps on some pages of this website and wonder what they are, they’re videos. If you’d like to see them, install the latest version of Adobe Flash Player. It’s free and it will take only a few seconds. Otherwise, switch to Firefox. Firefox will tell you when you need a plug-in instead of leaving you in a hole.