Genealogy, History, Heritage, How To
I’ve been dying to try out ChatGPT’s ability to transcribe handwritten text. I have a shoe box of letters, a huge folder of phone conversation notes with relatives who are no longer with us, and a gazillion pages of notes I’ve taken while researching. It’d be nice to make sense of them to share with…
The internet gods have been conspiring against me. My internet connection was like a magic trick. Now you see it, now you don’t. The wave of storms that battered the West Coast this winter played havoc with our DSL connection. But, there was something else going on…and it was inside my laptop. My Wi-Fi Adapter…
The more I spread my family tree out on the internet the more cousins I drag in (willingly, of course. Just this month I have had four new cousins find me through Facebook and I’ve made two new ones through my DNA test. I love finding new cousins, really I do! But, I’m finding that…
My blogging has been light this month for which I apologize. I am getting a new computer for my birthday from my family. It took me two weeks to select one with in the price range that would be a step up from what I have. My computer is 7 years old so probably anything…
This is part of the Genealympics Challenges and Saturday Night Genealogy Fun at Randy Seaver’s Genea-Musings. My assignment is to calculate my source to person ratio in my database. I use RootsMagic. It was easy to find the total number of people in my database: 9, 856. Calculating the sources took a little light bulb…