Randy has his Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge up on his blog, Genea-Musings. This week we are to run a statistics report on our genealogy database. I use RootsMagic 3.2.2. I got to my statistical report by going to File > Properties. Here is my report: I combined all my databases into one database…
Category: Computers and Technology
Google+ Success Story
I spent some time yesterday getting to know Google+. In case you haven’t heard of it, it’s the new Google Social Network. It’s like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and others. I created a couple of Circles including one for Genealogy Friends. Then I decided to put it to use. I had a problem reading a census…
My First Searches with Mocavo.com
I saw mention of Mocavo.com a few days back on Randy Seaver’s Genea-Musings blog. I decided to take a gander at the website and see what I thought. Mocavo touts itself as the “Largest Free Genealogy & Family Tree Search Engine”. I decided to try a few surname searches to see if I got lucky. …
Friday Free Ebook: Hawaii, Its People, Climate, and Resources
Today’s ebook is titled “Hawaii: Its People, Climate, and Resources by Daniel Logan. It was published by Pioneer Publishing Company, Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, in 1903. This book has all sorts of information about the Hawaii islands. But, what makes it even more interesting is the photographs found throughout the book depicting early scenes in…
The Big Weekend Project: Database Merges
While everyone else is out at the beach or setting up the barbeque, I’m going to be indoors under the brand new a/c merging my three databases. I’ve written previously about how I initially separated my genealogy into three database. This was because way back in the days of DOS the genealogy software I was…