I am probably going to start a riot with this post. But, I have a confession to make. I don’t input all those cumbersome source fields in my genealogy software and sometimes I don’t even know what they are for. There! I said it (Phew! That’s a load off my genealogy shoulders.) I have used…
Category: Genealogy Software
The Case for Sharing Your Genealogy GEDCOM
Recently, I experience what every genealogist dreads. My computer crashed and I had no way to access the data on my hard drive. Much to my chagrin, some of my backup CDs were corrupted. The data lost. I was very grateful that around September I had done a complete backup and loaded to my private…
Fooling Around with Genealogy Statistics: The Pacheco’s
After a seriously fatiguing afternoon mopping the floor, my brain has gotten a bit loopy. Instead of doing anything that needed to be done, I decided to play around with the statistics in my genealogy database. These statistics are for my Pacheco line. I started with my last ancestor, Jose Pacheco and Francisca Theresa, my…