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Tech Tuesday – Minus.com Photo Sharing Service

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Kevin

There have been a lot of developments in photo sharing services in the last year. Google merged it’s picasa service with G+ providing essentially limitless photo storage; facebook, of course, remains as popular as ever; and other cloud storage services, … Continue reading →

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Don’t forget the card catalog

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Kevin

After replying to a request from an Ancestry.com message for some information on a shared ancestor, I started doing a little more digging on that particular line. In my web searching, I happened to stumble across a county history/biography/genealogy that … Continue reading →

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Tech Tuesday – Evernote, I’m finally using it

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Kevin

I know this isn’t something new to most of the genealogy community….or probably to any community by now. It just hasn’t been something I’ve felt I had a need for. Recently though, I discovered a need to keep a large … Continue reading →

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RootsTech 2012 Sessions I’m considering

Posted on September 25, 2011 by Kevin

FamilySearch released their ‘first batch’ of announced sessions this week.  There’s something about each of these that interests me. Particularly, the sessions on Genealogy 2.0/social media, uses of Android technology in genealogy, QR codes, copyright law, and using the Library … Continue reading →

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I’m going to RootsTech 2012

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Kevin

I got my registration finalized today for RootsTech 2012. I’m really excited about attending. Last year I tried to participate online as much as I could with web streams, but it was clear I was missing a lot that was … Continue reading →

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Legacy Family Search now works with Windows 7

Posted on July 24, 2011 by Kevin

Recently, Legacy Family Tree released an update to version 7.5.0.105.  If you’ve tried Legacy before, but use Windows 7, like me, you’ve discovered that the FamilySearch integration feature didn’t work.  I’ve shunned genealogy software for sometime and have done all … Continue reading →

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BYU Conference on Family History & Genealogy

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Kevin

This conference takes place over 4 day in late July. Registration is $175/person with a $25 discount for church family history consultants. If I could just get away from work, I’d seriously consider going. http://ce.byu.edu/cw/cwgen/

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Civl War Soldiers & Saliors System

Posted on May 22, 2011 by Kevin

I recently came across a new source for information on those who served in the civil war. It’s called the Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System. What I didn’t expect was to find that it wasn’t maintained by the National … Continue reading →

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Exporting from Ancestry.com to NFS

Posted on March 27, 2011 by Kevin

One of the biggest drawbacks to using New Family Search (NFS) for me has always been documenting information with sources. It is, without a doubt, the clunkiest part of the user interface in NFS. I started using NFS in 2008 … Continue reading →

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52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History – Movies

Posted on March 20, 2011 by Kevin

When I was a kid my best friend and I used to go to the movies all the time…especially during the summer. The theater was in a very large outdoor shopping center

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