Everyone’s got favorite website. Some gravitate towards the large sites with numerous databases covering their area of research. Others have found a small site that covers a county or a town where their people originated from. Each would deem these websites indispensable. One website I could not do without is the SFGenealogy website run by…
Category: Around the Web
Getting to Know You, Getting to Know Your Blog Roundup
Terry Thornton of the Hill Country of Monroe County, Mississippi blog challenged genealogy bloggers to tell their readers a bit about themselves and their blog. Then they were asked to highlight their best, breeziest, and most beautiful articles or posts. You can read my response if you like: Getting to Know the Research Journal. Many…
A Visit from the Genea-Blogger Gnome
What a surprise it was to find that the Genea-Blogger Gnome had visited my blog today! Here is the little guy: His owner, Terry Thornton, let him out for the day and he came over to the Research Journal. Be sure to click on the Gnome so you can see his home, the “Hill Country…
Life of Theodoro & Maria (de Braga) Pacheco
Another example of a timeline. This one is for my great grandparents, Theodoro Pacheco and Maria de Braga. In this example, I’ve incorporated historical events. It places my great grandparents within the events happening around them. ca500………Polynesians begin migrating to the Hawaiian islands 1178……….Capt. James Cook becomes the first European to arrive in the Hawaii…
Reading and Commenting on Genealogy Blogs
One of my challenges from the Genea Blogger Games was to find a new genealogy blog, then leave a comment. This seemed like a pretty easy thing to do until I realized that their were a gazillion genealogy blogs! At first, I roamed the web aimlessly. I thought I might find a blog related to…