Tonight I worked on another Winter Games Challenge: Participate in an indexing project. I’ve been working on my own indexing project for the last 2-3 years. I’ve been extracting Portuguese names from ship lists for ships from Hawaii to California. This involved extracting the name and putting them into spreadsheets for each ship. This took…
Category: 2010 Genea Bloggers Winter Games Competition
A Brief Sketch of Jacintho Pacheco
Jacintho Pacheco was my Great Great Grandfather. He was born ca. 1820 in the village of Fenais da Vera Cruz, Ribeira Grande on the island of Sao Miguel in the Azores. He was the son of Joao Pacheco and Jacintha Rosa Ferreira, both also from Fenais da Vera Cruz. He met my Great Great Grandmother,…
My Shelf is Attacking Me
One of the Winter Games challenges is to organize and file at least 20 hard files in their binders. After my experience tonight, I am fairly sure why I’m so far behind on filing. It’s too dang dangerous! I pulled out the first stack of papers and proceeded to knock my glidepoint, the wrist guard,…
Winter Games Progress Report #2
This is my Friday Winter Games progress report. I’ve been able to accomplish quite a bit this week. Here’s my progress category by category: Category 1–haven’t done diddly so far Medal earned–None Category 2–I’ve backed up all my data (including databases, files, and photographs) to my flash drive. Medal earned–Gold Category 3–I haven’t worked on…
Winter Games Progress
I got quite a bit done today. I’m working on challenge #6, Reach Out and Perform Genealogical Acts of Kindess. I completed Task A–comment on a new blog to me. I left a comment at “My Big Fat Cajun Irish Scottish English German French Southern Family” blog. And, I thought I had a lot of…