Category Archives: Footnote Friday
Footnote Friday: Searching with Quotes
I’ve been working in the San Francisco Chronicle database at footnote.com. One of my frustrations has been name searches. Although I’m only searching one specific newspaper, trying to find a family is difficult. The surname search is not very effective. Since a newspaper is a collection of words strung together, the search engine doesn’t recognize …
Footnote Friday: One Generation Down
My goal was to have all of my Pacheco Great Great Uncle and Aunts added to footnote.com pages by the end of the month. Today I finished adding them. Then I linked them all together. Some things I learned along the way: 1. It’s best to start with an already created page. You don’t have …
Footnote Friday: Bookmark, Bookmark, Bookmark!
Whenever you look at a person’s page on Footnote.com, you see a row of buttons: watch, bookmark, share, and I’m related. I really wasn’t sure what the difference between watch and bookmark was. That is, until I tried to find a page that I had edited. Watch means just that–watch this page and tell me …