After doing Randy’s Genealogy challenge last night, I realized that I knew almost nothing about my Mom’s cousin, Rees Embry Winter. While I’ve been able to track the descendants of all my Great Aunts and Great Uncles, Rees’ family was a big question mark. Naturally, once I realized this I could not leave it alone….
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Is Your Blog Accessible for the Disabled and Elderly?
Thomas MacEntee over at the GeneaBloggers Blog wrote this post about making your blog more welcoming to visitors: Your Blog’s Welcome Mat. He gives some tips on making visitors feel more welcome when reading your blog. It occurs to me that while we are making our blogs prettier and more presentable we may be making…
What’s the Best Way to Add Information to FindAGrave.com?
I have decided to do something with the photographs and information I’ve collected from cemeteries. After playing with different websites, I’ve decided that I want to add my information to FindAGrave.com. After looking at the website, I realize that there are a few options. Is anyone out their an expert in working with FindAGrave.com? I’d…
Saturday Night Challenge: 16 Great Greats
Randy has offered up this challenge for Saturday night. List your 16 Great Great Grandparents, give their birth and death information, then figure out your ethnicity. I only have 14 Great Greats, so that’s what I will work with. Since RootsMagic can do this for me in an Ahnentafel chart, I will cheat a tiny…
GenealogyWise: My Page
My previous post gave a brief description of the new genealogy social networking website, GenealogyWise.com. Now, I would like to take a look at My Page. My Page is your user profile. It’s the page that people visiting GenealogyWise will see when they pull up your name. Besides wasting several minutes trying to find the…