In June of 2008, I decided to take this blog in a new direction. Instead of only exploring research problems, I opened it up to a much broader scope. Since then I’ve written many posts. I’ve met up with a wonderful group of genealogy bloggers through the Genea Bloggers group on Facebook. I participated in…
Category: IslandRoutes News
Getting to Know Me, Getting to Know the Research Journal
I’ve been on the web helping genealogist for several years, first on AOL, then with GenealogyForum.org. In September of 2001, I began the Portuguese Hawaiian Genealogy and Heritage website, islandroutes.com. In January of this year, I revised the Research Journal blog to cover my various areas of research expertise. My goal is to teach people…
Ship Indexes Added to IslandRoutes.com
One of my Genea Blogger Games challenges was to participate in an indexing project. I’ve been working on my own project to index the Portuguese names on manifests for ships coming from Hawaii to California. After months of not doing anything, I put in some hard time today. The indexes have all been created. But,…
What the Research Journal Blog is About
As part of the Genea Blogger Games, one of my tasks is to tell you what the Research Journal Blog is about. As I remodeled and refocused the blog recently, it seems like this is a good opportunity. Originally, this blog was set up to take research projects and follow them step by step to…