Category Archives: Around the Web
Footnote Friday: Navigating the Indexes
I’ve learned something about the Footnote.com search function. It’s not very helpful. I either get way too many results or I don’t get what I’m targetting. One of the ways to get around way too many results is to use the browse function. Click on Original Documents. Click on the database you want to search. …
Footnote Friday: Getting Started with Footnote.com
I’ve joined footnote.com. So, I’ve decided to start a new feature called “Footnote Friday”. Every Friday to do a report on what I’ve accomplished and what I’ve learned about the service. This week, I started setting up some member pages. First, I did a couple of name searches in the Social Security Death Index. I’m …
Frustrating Day with Genealogy Apps on Facebook
I thought since I have cousins on facebook that I should be working with one of the genealogy apps and then invite my cousins to see my work. Well, I spent a very frustrating afternoon and ended up deliberately wiping out what I did because each application was too much of a pain in the …