One of the Genea Blogger Games challenges is to create a timeline of events for an individual in my tree. I fooled around with Personal Historian, but wasn’t thrilled with the results. Since TimeToast was recommended I decided to give it a try. It took me some time to put my Great Grandmother, Maria (de…
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: Happy Dances all over My Blog
Randy’s challenge this week is to list some of the happy dances, a-ha moments, and genea-gasms that we’ve blogged about. Here are a few of mine: My Very First Happy Dance – My very first visit to the local Family History Center had me face to face with my ancestors for the first time when…
Winter Games Progress Report #2
This is my Friday Winter Games progress report. I’ve been able to accomplish quite a bit this week. Here’s my progress category by category: Category 1–haven’t done diddly so far Medal earned–None Category 2–I’ve backed up all my data (including databases, files, and photographs) to my flash drive. Medal earned–Gold Category 3–I haven’t worked on…
Winter Games Progress
I got quite a bit done today. I’m working on challenge #6, Reach Out and Perform Genealogical Acts of Kindess. I completed Task A–comment on a new blog to me. I left a comment at “My Big Fat Cajun Irish Scottish English German French Southern Family” blog. And, I thought I had a lot of…
Added a Cemetery to FindaGrave.com
Today I worked on Challenge 6 of the Winter Genea Blogger games: Reach Out and Perform Genealogical Acts of Kindness. I worked on Task B–Post one or more gravestone photos at Find A Grave. I have been meaning to work on Find A Grave since the beginning of the year as a Pay it Forward….