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…
Category: 2010 Genea Bloggers Winter Games Competition
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…
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,…
Winter 2010 GeneaBlogger Games Mid Week Status Report
This is my status report as we’re over half way done with the GeneaBlogger Games. Saturday is the last day of challenges. Let’s see how I am doing. 1. Go Back and Cite Your Sources Completed: 52 Citations added to my database Medal=Plantinum 2. Back Up Your Data Completed: Task C (backup data) Medal=Gold 3. …
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,…