Today I worked on Challenge 6 of the Winter Genea Blogger games: Reach Out and Perform Genealogical Acts of Kindness. I worked on Task B–Post one or more gravestone photos at Find A Grave. I have been meaning to work on Find A Grave since the beginning of the year as a Pay it Forward….
Category: 2010 Genea Bloggers Winter Games Competition
Wordle Thy Ancestors
For my next Winter Genea Bloggers challenge, I played around with Wordle. It’s a fun little application that allows you to fill in a box with text. Then it creates a Wordle…a representation of your word list in living color. I decided to do a Wordle based on my ancestor surnames. This is not a…
Winter Games: Backing Up My Data
I have completed my first task of the Winter Genea Blogger Games. I decided to start on the task I have procrastinated on too long: backing up my data to my flash drive (Task C). Last night, I hooked up the flash drive and I began. First, I made a fresh back up of all…
Using Google Docs to Back Up Genealogy Data?
One of the challenges I took on for the Winter Genea Blogger Games is to back up all my genealogy data. I would like to use an external source (my flash drive) and an online source. This way I will have two backups in case of backup failure (like the time my Zip Drive failed…