Category Archives: 2010 Genea Bloggers Winter Games Competition
2010 Winter Genea Blogger Games–How did I do?
It’s been a really fun two weeks working on the various challenges. Now it’s time for me to tally up my medal count. I didn’t always have a chance to blog about every single thing that I participated in, but I have summarized the tasks throughout the two weeks. Without further ado… 1. Go Back …
New Ship Indexes Added to YourIslandRoutes.com
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 …
Two New Pages Added to the Blog
One of the challenges in the Genea Blogger Games it to let people know what my research is about by creating a page or two. Though you know bits and pieces about different parts of my tree, you probably don’t have a sense of how the heck they all fit together. Today I created two …